Told the new guy to clean out some muck that built up on the grates on the side of hot plate. I specifically told him to unplug it beforehand and to use a coffee stirrer. I told him to be careful. I turn my back and hear a loud POP and see a flash of light. Genius used a fucking knife to try and clean it because in his words "I wanted to get it done faster."
He's incredibly lucky he was using one of those shitty Dexter knives with the plastic handle because otherwise he would have killed himself. Unfortunately though he shorted out the hot plate and we had to buy a new one, so his stupid ass got canned.
by Bee-and-Barb
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Looks like he chipped the spine and tried to weld it so nobody would know and snapped the tip in the forge…or something
Now it doubles as a bottle opener
My grandmother used to cut electrical wire with kitchen scissors. A disabled neighbor asked her to do it. The handle of the scissors is made of plastic so she is fine. The metal part of the scissors melted like in the picture.
I got money on electrical damage. Someone’s vape needed maintenance and they straight sub ohm’ed that bitch
I worked at a proper, open kitchen diner and one day(FOH,during rush) the microwaves and shake machine breaker keeps flipping. I went back to check and flip it half a dozen times. We (BOH and FOH) couldn’t figure out what was going on. Until I looked down the line and watched one of our young servers put a metal syrup container in the microwave. She was 26. She subsequently married the owner and had kids.
I once had a line cook or possibly a sous chef cut through a plugged in large immersion blender cord the knife looked like this. No injuries that anyone would admit to and not a single person accepted responsibility for doing it. I was just so happy no one died or was seriously injured.
I worked with a guy who on his first day picked up the sous-chef’s knife and proceeded to strap a 4 kg block of chocolate in an attempt to break it up. The first inch of the knife broke off. While he apologised profusely he’s remedy was to get the knife reground and give it back to the sous-chef at its new shorter length. At the time and still now I think he ought to have replaced it and kept the shorter one himself. Anyway he didn’t last…
Y’all are just jealous they managed to deflect a couple bullets with a knife
That some high level dumb shit.
Doing stupid shit like that with hot plates is how a whole lot of people’s houses get burned down
yes definitely don’t try to weld
Looks like somebody tried to touch start a motor