I stole this from FB. What’s your craziest “ask” from the kitchen?
I stole this from FB. What’s your craziest “ask” from the kitchen?
by IAm5toned
45 Comments
Xsiah
Mom: 🤪
pwndabeer
Acceptable responses:
My hourly rate on this Saturday is $50/hr
-or-
*No response*
ugricicle
Safe to assume this is for cracker barrel? I know my gf puts CB at the end of all her mangers names
MetalPandaDance
i mean a man can ask… sounds like he was ready to understand and accept any response.
sh6rty13
Hotel kitchen. Chef called me and said a pipe had burst on the 9th floor and everyone needed to come in and help clean up.
Nope. *HARD* nope.
garbitch_bag
HAHA shit dude, hell no.
IceColdDump
1st wedding – egregious to ask
2nd – dependant on your relationship with the person and knowledge of their personal life, probably not okay but sometimes maybe
3rd+ Do you want to work a double?
Wolfenbro
I remember I booked off the two days before my wedding, scheduled all the staffing to cover and everything.
My boss (the owner’s wife) called me that first day I had off and tried to give me shit for not being there. There weren’t any issues or anything missed, she just felt I should be there.
Went on my honeymoon and gave my notice when I came back
Express_Area_8359
lol y is his moms in his text chain…. Oomph watching it now ya know who
EducationalAspect503
Boss: my niece is not wanting to work here, from now on you are going to work 7 days a week, no overtime pay
Naive-Impression-373
We got bombarded with calls from the owner while we were driving to my sister in laws funeral. He’s ranting and yelling about why certain people were or were not working, did we ask this supervisor to work instead of going to her grandmothers birthday, why the other one had to go to the hospital to be with her husband (he was in good hands after all), why we couldn’t come back in afterwards, it was “only a celebration of life, after all, that’s just a party, not a real funeral” not that it matters but they didn’t have a funeral, only the celebration of life, she was in her early 40s when she died, so it was pretty tragic. My wife and I both started job hunting and put in our notices less than a month later.
Hurrly90
Had two days off for my Grans funeral, Day one was a reposing, so stand over the body while people come in and pay respects, while we were driving down to it my boss text asking was there anyway i could do a few hours. One of the only time i said no, then just turned my phone off.
Went in the day after the funeral spent a few hours making spring rolls, Three of us were on and it was very quiet, couldnt of given me that day off either?
CadenVanV
Honestly it sounds like this manager was just really desperate (though I know literally nothing about him and definitely need more context). I do doubt they were the first person he asked
It wasn’t an ask, I had food poisoning and puking my brains out all night, I woke up on the bathroom floor the next morning. I called out, they told me I had to come in because they were short staffed.
Stachelrodt86
Once had a boss call in an emergency on my first daughter’s first birthday and I went. His horse was constipated i find out later
Sorry babe, can’t get married. Have to go in since Jacob quit. You understand.
APe28Comococo
We were getting a kitchen remodel. One of the managers had to be there during the overnight work, they had to have 2 employees with them to clean behind things . I stayed overnight 10p-8a and was scheduled to do the same the next 3 nights too. Then someone called out at like 7:30a. The manager that hadn’t stayed there overnight asked if I could work their shifts that day and next few. I agreed ended up being clocked in from 10 pm Monday until 8 am Friday. My managers got a serious scolding and I got a stupid paycheck with a very bonus for signing some piece of paper from corporate. I was just napping on the overnights when we had no cleaning to do and running on monsters/coffee/cigarettes.
MetricJester
“I’m going to need you to stay later”, and then dude leaves with the keys…
EmotionalMushroom759
I had a chef call me in while I was on vacation (approved by him) out of state – said I would be fired if I wasn’t in for the shift – I told the owner I would come in if they flew me back first class and paid me time and a half for cutting my vacation short. The owner fired my chef.
ChanclasConHuevos
First cooking gig. Three months in. Nightmare establishment. Staff had been quitting left and right due to shit management.
I got a text from the GM saying our executive chef had been picked up on a warrant and all remaining kitchen staff (the only other line cook, the EC’s mom & daughter, and me) were expected to work doubles every day for the foreseeable future. I noped the fuck out.
cambomusic
Anyone been asked to be the “temporary manager” or “temporary chef” After an atrocity?? Would love to hear those stories
Ecstatic_Guava3041
I got fired from a job because I asked for a raise. It was a week before my wedding. 😀
MariachiArchery
I am a chef at a pretty big restaurant. Capacity is 196. I opened this place for people that have never managed, or owned, a restaurant. It’s just me. I’m the only one who *really* knows what is going on.
On Saturday, my kitchen opens at 2pm. I leave for that commute at 11:30am, ride my bike for a half hour, then I have two hours to open the kitchen, prep, and then my cooks arrive right at open with a setup, and ready to rock kitchen.
One Saturday morning, I’m getting ready to hop on my bike and head to work, right around 11:30am, and I get a call from the owner. Weird… I pick up, and before I can get a word in:
“WHERE ARE YOU!!!???”
“That is *none* of your business where I am. What is the reason for this call?”
“WHO IS GOING TO OPEN THE KITCHEN!!!???”
“*I* am. Why are you calling me?”
“THE KITCHEN OPENS IN 30 MINUTES AND NO ONE IS HERE!!! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU!!!!???”
“The kitchen will open at 2pm, per our standing hours of operation. Did these hours change?”
“[oh shit] Um… the restaurant is actually opening at Noon today…”
“Ok, and how was I supposed to know that?”
“…”
“…”
“Soooo how soon do you think you can get the kitchen open?”
“The kitchen will open at 2pm, per our standing hours of operation. In the future, if you need to modify these hours, you need to tell me in advance of the hours change. Ok?”
“OK well when will you be here???”
“I’ll be there right on time to be ready to open and serve food at Noon.”
Fucking morons decided to open the restaurant 2 hours early without telling me, or anyone in the kitchen, then freaked the fuck out when the kitchen did not in fact, open 2 hours early. I wish I could say this has only happened once. The stupid thing is, is that they thought I could get us opened and prep’ed in 30 minutes, when I had been taking 2 hours to open and set this place up for like, a year at this point. Like, why didn’t you call me an hour and a half ago?
TheManfromWoodstock
Worked at a hospital in a sous-like position and was asked to work a double 12 at the end of the first 12. Fortunately, because it was a hospital, the gig was union, so I called my rep and was informed that based on my contract, I could say no.
Irishjuggalette
My husband asked for the weekend of our wedding off. His boss knew in advance, and was even invited because she was like family to him. My husband and his mom both worked there too. Our wedding was that Saturday. They gave him Friday and Sunday off, but wanted him to work Saturday before our wedding, because one of his other coworkers needed the day off. Mind you, we lived 45 minutes away from the venue, and he wouldn’t have had time to go home and shower. But she had no issues giving his mom the whole weekend off. She even threatened him with his job. He said no. She had the balls to try and show up to the wedding still. He ended up quitting and we moved to a different town a few months later. She ended up being fired because she was sleeping with the employee that was trying to take that Saturday off too. Last I heard she had cancer and alienated everyone around her.
WakingOwl1
I got married the same day as local high school graduations and the deli I worked in called me begging me to come in the day before. There were hundreds of platter orders.
godzillafire007
I guess Chris will just have to manage his old employee’s tasks himself. He should be able to do it, it’s in his title after all.
floweringfungus
I just started at a new place about two weeks ago. Transferred from a sister establishment so still a supervising bartender even though everything is different.
New GM stuck me on ten closes in those two weeks and then moaned at me for forgetting a couple of bits.
Asked him why I’d been stuck on so many closes despite being the newest member of staff and he said him and the AM are on holiday so it was necessary.
NerdHerder77
Mom’s a real one.
DJMagicHandz
When I was in highschool it was always hard to keep a porter at Burger King. The current porter got arrested earlier in the day and we needed him to breakdown the broiler for deep cleaning that night. Guess who got stuck doing it and didn’t get home until 3 in the morning?
kitterpants
I helped opening a restaurant/pie shop that opened three weeks before thanksgiving. So they wanted to do service and then take every pie order that came in… hundreds. In a 300 sq ft place in LA.
I was 20 so I spent almost 48 hours both working the line and then making pies for pick up on thanksgiving. I was so tired after I pulled over 5 minutes into my drive and slept for hours in my car.
ArtisanArdisson
I literally did get called into work two days after my wedding while I was on requested vacation time.
Sharkrepellant23
Sprained my ankle on my night off and called in the next day for my shift. Manager offered to have me picked up and just stand in one spot on the line and work the shift. Needless to say was one of the few times in my career I said no to coming in.
sarahbreit
That’s peak kitchen culture right there “Congrats on the wedding, but can you cover a shit first?” 😂
Krunk_MIlkshake
TheModdedOmega
not from a kitchen but my time at Target, My manager told me that I would not get off the day of my high-school graduation because other kids my age had already gotten their time off approved and I was basically doing the job of a manager already… needless to say I did not show up for that shift.
sandiercy
I was in Mexico (from Canada) and my boss texts me asking if I can work the next shift. After a good laugh, I said no and turned off my phone.
yellowduckcraft
Got called and asked “just do the open set up” on the day of my baby shower. Obviously said no. I went on maternity leave 3weeks later and never went back. Fuck that place.
Aggravating_Smell
Any chance of coming in Sunday, even though you’re off to prison tomorrow?
FermentGeek
My Job asked if I could move my wedding because they wanted to triple book events.
-blundertaker-
Nothing too crazy, manager just tried to call me in on my day off and I said “Sorry buddy, I’m already halfway into this bottle of wine.” He said “can you maybe sober up by 5?”
“I could, but there’s another bottle waiting in line behind this one.”
“Alright have a good night.”
ThatGuyHadNone
Suck it up buttercup. I am lucky enough to have some people I can call that do not work for me . If they can I am golden, but I refuse to mess with someones approved time off. That is yours.
45 Comments
Mom: 🤪
Acceptable responses:
My hourly rate on this Saturday is $50/hr
-or-
*No response*
Safe to assume this is for cracker barrel? I know my gf puts CB at the end of all her mangers names
i mean a man can ask… sounds like he was ready to understand and accept any response.
Hotel kitchen.
Chef called me and said a pipe had burst on the 9th floor and everyone needed to come in and help clean up.
Nope. *HARD* nope.
HAHA shit dude, hell no.
1st wedding – egregious to ask
2nd – dependant on your relationship with the person and knowledge of their personal life, probably not okay but sometimes maybe
3rd+ Do you want to work a double?
I remember I booked off the two days before my wedding, scheduled all the staffing to cover and everything.
My boss (the owner’s wife) called me that first day I had off and tried to give me shit for not being there. There weren’t any issues or anything missed, she just felt I should be there.
Went on my honeymoon and gave my notice when I came back
lol y is his moms in his text chain…. Oomph watching it now ya know who
Boss: my niece is not wanting to work here, from now on you are going to work 7 days a week, no overtime pay
We got bombarded with calls from the owner while we were driving to my sister in laws funeral. He’s ranting and yelling about why certain people were or were not working, did we ask this supervisor to work instead of going to her grandmothers birthday, why the other one had to go to the hospital to be with her husband (he was in good hands after all), why we couldn’t come back in afterwards, it was “only a celebration of life, after all, that’s just a party, not a real funeral” not that it matters but they didn’t have a funeral, only the celebration of life, she was in her early 40s when she died, so it was pretty tragic. My wife and I both started job hunting and put in our notices less than a month later.
Had two days off for my Grans funeral, Day one was a reposing, so stand over the body while people come in and pay respects, while we were driving down to it my boss text asking was there anyway i could do a few hours. One of the only time i said no, then just turned my phone off.
Went in the day after the funeral spent a few hours making spring rolls, Three of us were on and it was very quiet, couldnt of given me that day off either?
Honestly it sounds like this manager was just really desperate (though I know literally nothing about him and definitely need more context). I do doubt they were the first person he asked
I would just respond with this exact link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9A6ctjHAxE
Who gets married on Sunday?
It wasn’t an ask, I had food poisoning and puking my brains out all night, I woke up on the bathroom floor the next morning. I called out, they told me I had to come in because they were short staffed.
Once had a boss call in an emergency on my first daughter’s first birthday and I went. His horse was constipated i find out later
[Perfect representation of what your response should be. ](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR_72Dalj4BV3-Hq5T9ELMPzz6yu5iLBBeLx4vRoc6gmg&s=10)
Sorry babe, can’t get married. Have to go in since Jacob quit. You understand.
We were getting a kitchen remodel. One of the managers had to be there during the overnight work, they had to have 2 employees with them to clean behind things . I stayed overnight 10p-8a and was scheduled to do the same the next 3 nights too. Then someone called out at like 7:30a. The manager that hadn’t stayed there overnight asked if I could work their shifts that day and next few. I agreed ended up being clocked in from 10 pm Monday until 8 am Friday. My managers got a serious scolding and I got a stupid paycheck with a very bonus for signing some piece of paper from corporate. I was just napping on the overnights when we had no cleaning to do and running on monsters/coffee/cigarettes.
“I’m going to need you to stay later”, and then dude leaves with the keys…
I had a chef call me in while I was on vacation (approved by him) out of state – said I would be fired if I wasn’t in for the shift – I told the owner I would come in if they flew me back first class and paid me time and a half for cutting my vacation short.
The owner fired my chef.
First cooking gig. Three months in. Nightmare establishment. Staff had been quitting left and right due to shit management.
I got a text from the GM saying our executive chef had been picked up on a warrant and all remaining kitchen staff (the only other line cook, the EC’s mom & daughter, and me) were expected to work doubles every day for the foreseeable future. I noped the fuck out.
Anyone been asked to be the “temporary manager” or “temporary chef” After an atrocity?? Would love to hear those stories
I got fired from a job because I asked for a raise. It was a week before my wedding. 😀
I am a chef at a pretty big restaurant. Capacity is 196. I opened this place for people that have never managed, or owned, a restaurant. It’s just me. I’m the only one who *really* knows what is going on.
On Saturday, my kitchen opens at 2pm. I leave for that commute at 11:30am, ride my bike for a half hour, then I have two hours to open the kitchen, prep, and then my cooks arrive right at open with a setup, and ready to rock kitchen.
One Saturday morning, I’m getting ready to hop on my bike and head to work, right around 11:30am, and I get a call from the owner. Weird… I pick up, and before I can get a word in:
“WHERE ARE YOU!!!???”
“That is *none* of your business where I am. What is the reason for this call?”
“WHO IS GOING TO OPEN THE KITCHEN!!!???”
“*I* am. Why are you calling me?”
“THE KITCHEN OPENS IN 30 MINUTES AND NO ONE IS HERE!!! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU!!!!???”
“The kitchen will open at 2pm, per our standing hours of operation. Did these hours change?”
“[oh shit] Um… the restaurant is actually opening at Noon today…”
“Ok, and how was I supposed to know that?”
“…”
“…”
“Soooo how soon do you think you can get the kitchen open?”
“The kitchen will open at 2pm, per our standing hours of operation. In the future, if you need to modify these hours, you need to tell me in advance of the hours change. Ok?”
“OK well when will you be here???”
“I’ll be there right on time to be ready to open and serve food at Noon.”
Fucking morons decided to open the restaurant 2 hours early without telling me, or anyone in the kitchen, then freaked the fuck out when the kitchen did not in fact, open 2 hours early. I wish I could say this has only happened once. The stupid thing is, is that they thought I could get us opened and prep’ed in 30 minutes, when I had been taking 2 hours to open and set this place up for like, a year at this point. Like, why didn’t you call me an hour and a half ago?
Worked at a hospital in a sous-like position and was asked to work a double 12 at the end of the first 12. Fortunately, because it was a hospital, the gig was union, so I called my rep and was informed that based on my contract, I could say no.
My husband asked for the weekend of our wedding off. His boss knew in advance, and was even invited because she was like family to him. My husband and his mom both worked there too. Our wedding was that Saturday. They gave him Friday and Sunday off, but wanted him to work Saturday before our wedding, because one of his other coworkers needed the day off. Mind you, we lived 45 minutes away from the venue, and he wouldn’t have had time to go home and shower. But she had no issues giving his mom the whole weekend off. She even threatened him with his job. He said no. She had the balls to try and show up to the wedding still. He ended up quitting and we moved to a different town a few months later. She ended up being fired because she was sleeping with the employee that was trying to take that Saturday off too. Last I heard she had cancer and alienated everyone around her.
I got married the same day as local high school graduations and the deli I worked in called me begging me to come in the day before. There were hundreds of platter orders.
I guess Chris will just have to manage his old employee’s tasks himself. He should be able to do it, it’s in his title after all.
I just started at a new place about two weeks ago. Transferred from a sister establishment so still a supervising bartender even though everything is different.
New GM stuck me on ten closes in those two weeks and then moaned at me for forgetting a couple of bits.
Asked him why I’d been stuck on so many closes despite being the newest member of staff and he said him and the AM are on holiday so it was necessary.
Mom’s a real one.
When I was in highschool it was always hard to keep a porter at Burger King. The current porter got arrested earlier in the day and we needed him to breakdown the broiler for deep cleaning that night. Guess who got stuck doing it and didn’t get home until 3 in the morning?
I helped opening a restaurant/pie shop that opened three weeks before thanksgiving. So they wanted to do service and then take every pie order that came in… hundreds. In a 300 sq ft place in LA.
I was 20 so I spent almost 48 hours both working the line and then making pies for pick up on thanksgiving. I was so tired after I pulled over 5 minutes into my drive and slept for hours in my car.
I literally did get called into work two days after my wedding while I was on requested vacation time.
Sprained my ankle on my night off and called in the next day for my shift. Manager offered to have me picked up and just stand in one spot on the line and work the shift. Needless to say was one of the few times in my career I said no to coming in.
That’s peak kitchen culture right there “Congrats on the wedding, but can you cover a shit first?” 😂
not from a kitchen but my time at Target, My manager told me that I would not get off the day of my high-school graduation because other kids my age had already gotten their time off approved and I was basically doing the job of a manager already… needless to say I did not show up for that shift.
I was in Mexico (from Canada) and my boss texts me asking if I can work the next shift. After a good laugh, I said no and turned off my phone.
Got called and asked “just do the open set up” on the day of my baby shower. Obviously said no. I went on maternity leave 3weeks later and never went back. Fuck that place.
Any chance of coming in Sunday, even though you’re off to prison tomorrow?
My Job asked if I could move my wedding because they wanted to triple book events.
Nothing too crazy, manager just tried to call me in on my day off and I said “Sorry buddy, I’m already halfway into this bottle of wine.” He said “can you maybe sober up by 5?”
“I could, but there’s another bottle waiting in line behind this one.”
“Alright have a good night.”
Suck it up buttercup. I am lucky enough to have some people I can call that do not work for me . If they can I am golden, but I refuse to mess with someones approved time off. That is yours.