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post #51 of 56
9/3/07 at 6:39pm
I worked in restaurants for years, everything from fast-food joints in small towns to reasonably upscale places in Manhattan. And not once, not once, mind you, in all those years, did I ever encounter something you wouldn't find occasionally in the average household kitchen. An occasional cockroach, maybe a mouse or a rat in the storage areas, a stray hair in the soup, that sort of thing, and they were always dealt with fairly swiftly.

I always take these restaurant horror stories/urban legends with a big ol' grain of salt. I mean, would you actually work alongside someone you knew had done something awful to a cutomer's food? Or believe that a container of "special sauce" was so priceless that employees would "pick out big chunks" of vomit by hand just to save management a dollar?

I know there are assholes and sociopaths out there in the workforce, but in all the places I've ever worked, they never lasted more than a week.

EDIT: I know the thread started out as a joke, I just hate urban legends. And people who don't give a shit at work. Yeah, I'm old.
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post #52 of 56
9/3/07 at 7:08pm
That's okay, I'm old too, and I've also worked in several restaurants, and also never seen these horror stories.

I have no doubt, though, that nineteen-year-olds working fast food will do some gross shit just to demonstrate that they don't care about their jobs. For some reason, that's a highly valuable attitude for a nineteen-year-old. They're personally invested in it. Being seen taking your job seriously will make you a pariah.
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post #53 of 56
9/3/07 at 7:56pm
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Originally Posted by Greg David
For some reason, that's a highly valuable attitude for a nineteen-year-old. Their personally invested in it. Being seen taking your job seriously will make you a pariah.
Good point.
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post #54 of 56
9/3/07 at 9:15pm
Yeah, I briefly worked at a McDonald's for about two seconds when I was 18, and I know a couple of the guys who did gross things to the food. That scene in Fast Food Nation where Paul Dano spits on Greg Kinnear's burger before sending it out to him isn't so far fetched.
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post #55 of 56
9/3/07 at 10:34pm
Frog tastes like chicken. So does crocodile.
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post #56 of 56
9/4/07 at 9:43am
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Originally Posted by Jacob Singer
I worked in restaurants for years, everything from fast-food joints in small towns to reasonably upscale places in Manhattan. And not once, not once, mind you, in all those years, did I ever encounter something you wouldn't find occasionally in the average household kitchen. An occasional cockroach, maybe a mouse or a rat in the storage areas, a stray hair in the soup, that sort of thing, and they were always dealt with fairly swiftly.

I always take these restaurant horror stories/urban legends with a big ol' grain of salt. I mean, would you actually work alongside someone you knew had done something awful to a cutomer's food? Or believe that a container of "special sauce" was so priceless that employees would "pick out big chunks" of vomit by hand just to save management a dollar?

I know there are assholes and sociopaths out there in the workforce, but in all the places I've ever worked, they never lasted more than a week.

EDIT: I know the thread started out as a joke, I just hate urban legends. And people who don't give a shit at work. Yeah, I'm old.
I hear ya - I'm gettin' up there myself. Believe me, I'm not a big fan of over-the-top stories either (too much of a skeptic), but some of the shit I've seen, I'd have a hard time believing if it didn't happen in front of me.

Again, the McDonald's story is probably the only really nasty food story I've got, and it's more my brother's tale than mine (kid smelled like a pile of veggies and fat whenever I picked him up from work). I didnt witness it, so I don't blame you being skeptical.
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