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https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4sahvp/what_was_the_most_memorable_workplace_meltdown/
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I was working as a cook at Applebees. Well, I was a "microwave technician."
Anyway, we were slammed busy. Friday night, full window of tickets and everyone's moving at top speed. I was competent and fast, being young and all. The other line cooks liked having me around because I would get my food done and not hold them up, plus I liked to make jokes and we made the night go by quickly.
A new manager was making a bug fuss over an order of chicken wings. I told him they're "down" and will need a few minutes. That means they are in the fryer being cooked. He proceeded to berate me and tell me they'd better be done faster or some shit, I don't remember. I repeated that they're down and I don't control how fast they cook.
(my favorite line to use was "I can't change the laws of thermodynamics for you")
Anyway he kept up being rude and screaming through the window at me. The other cooks were looking, as well as the servers, and even the dishwasher came over to see the commotion.
I looked around the room and saw everyone staring at me, wondering what was going to happen...I just took off my apron, threw it through the window at him and said (while flipping two birds) "Fuck you Carl, you make them" and walked out the back. As I was walking out the back door I heard Kenny, a fellow cook (RIP dude committed suicide for an unrelated reason a year later) yell "FUCK! GOD DAMNIT CARL!"
I went out back and sat in the grass behind the restaraunt and just chilled for a bit. The other cooks came out slowly one by one and just kinda said "I'm with you man, guy's a douche, but we need you to keep us from sinking in there please come back in" - now this is'nt because I was so great (I was decent) but mainly because you can't work all the stations without people on each one. There's just too much to do. I told them to get Carl to cook I'm done. Carl did work the station for the rest of the night. He was not very good and was disrespectful to boot.
And so that was the night Carl got fired. I resumed my normal schedule the following night.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4sahvp/what_was_the_most_memorable_workplace_meltdown/
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I was working as a cook at Applebees. Well, I was a "microwave technician."
Anyway, we were slammed busy. Friday night, full window of tickets and everyone's moving at top speed. I was competent and fast, being young and all. The other line cooks liked having me around because I would get my food done and not hold them up, plus I liked to make jokes and we made the night go by quickly.
A new manager was making a bug fuss over an order of chicken wings. I told him they're "down" and will need a few minutes. That means they are in the fryer being cooked. He proceeded to berate me and tell me they'd better be done faster or some shit, I don't remember. I repeated that they're down and I don't control how fast they cook.
(my favorite line to use was "I can't change the laws of thermodynamics for you")
Anyway he kept up being rude and screaming through the window at me. The other cooks were looking, as well as the servers, and even the dishwasher came over to see the commotion.
I looked around the room and saw everyone staring at me, wondering what was going to happen...I just took off my apron, threw it through the window at him and said (while flipping two birds) "Fuck you Carl, you make them" and walked out the back. As I was walking out the back door I heard Kenny, a fellow cook (RIP dude committed suicide for an unrelated reason a year later) yell "FUCK! GOD DAMNIT CARL!"
I went out back and sat in the grass behind the restaraunt and just chilled for a bit. The other cooks came out slowly one by one and just kinda said "I'm with you man, guy's a douche, but we need you to keep us from sinking in there please come back in" - now this is'nt because I was so great (I was decent) but mainly because you can't work all the stations without people on each one. There's just too much to do. I told them to get Carl to cook I'm done. Carl did work the station for the rest of the night. He was not very good and was disrespectful to boot.
And so that was the night Carl got fired. I resumed my normal schedule the following night.
