I was a chef for years. Not just a prep cook or line cook, but the guy running the shit. It can get extremely stressful, no doubt, but it isn’t “the industry” or customer interactions that make people cry or quit enough to cause a flyer like this. People rarely quit jobs; they quit bosses. If you are on the verge of quitting or crying in that type of job, it’s almost certainly because your boss is shitty. Your boss should establish a respectful environment and stand up for you if anybody shits on you. Your boss should give you the tools and training necessary to do your job effectively. Your boss should work with you to ensure that you’ve got a reasonable schedule, posted with a reasonable amount of notice, providing a reasonable work/life balance rather than insisting that you just be “bout that life”. Your employees do not exist solely to support your dream of running a successful business; they have their own dreams to pursue.
It’s not that fucking difficult to be a decent boss, and I refuse to stand by and say nothing while you make excuses to enable shitty fucking behavior from shitty fucking bosses just because “that’s how the industry is” or whatever. Maybe that was true once, but workers now have the power to tell the industry to go fuck itself, and I applaud them for doing so. We have more than enough shitty restaurants. We could close 80% of them for good, and raise prices, quality, and pay for the remaining restaurants, and I’d be thrilled. And if these shitty fucking bosses have enough trouble hiring people, I’ll get my wish, because these lazy fucks can’t run their stupid fucking restaurants without dirt cheap labor to exploit. Any decent boss worth their salt in any industry knows that it’s the boss who works for the employees. Any business’s failure or success depends on good workers running it and good bosses giving the workers everything they need to run it. Once you take care of that, good customers/clients follow, revenue spikes, and costs sink. Happy workers do the best work, and customers/clients choose happy workers to interface with. It’s not that complicated.
I was a chef for years. Not just a prep cook or line cook, but the guy running the shit. It can get extremely stressful, no doubt, but it isn’t “the industry” or customer interactions that make people cry or quit enough to cause a flyer like this. People rarely quit jobs; they quit bosses. If you are on the verge of quitting or crying in that type of job, it’s almost certainly because your boss is shitty. Your boss should establish a respectful environment and stand up for you if anybody shits on you. Your boss should give you the tools and training necessary to do your job effectively. Your boss should work with you to ensure that you’ve got a reasonable schedule, posted with a reasonable amount of notice, providing a reasonable work/life balance rather than insisting that you just be “bout that life”. Your employees do not exist solely to support your dream of running a successful business; they have their own dreams to pursue.
It’s not that fucking difficult to be a decent boss, and I refuse to stand by and say nothing while you make excuses to enable shitty fucking behavior from shitty fucking bosses just because “that’s how the industry is” or whatever. Maybe that was true once, but workers now have the power to tell the industry to go fuck itself, and I applaud them for doing so. We have more than enough shitty restaurants. We could close 80% of them for good, and raise prices, quality, and pay for the remaining restaurants, and I’d be thrilled. And if these shitty fucking bosses have enough trouble hiring people, I’ll get my wish, because these lazy fucks can’t run their stupid fucking restaurants without dirt cheap labor to exploit. Any decent boss worth their salt in any industry knows that it’s the boss who works for the employees. Any business’s failure or success depends on good workers running it and good bosses giving the workers everything they need to run it. Once you take care of that, good customers/clients follow, revenue spikes, and costs sink. Happy workers do the best work, and customers/clients choose happy workers to interface with. It’s not that complicated.