I’m a restaurant manager, and pretty good at what I do for the level I’m at... And burnout is a huge thing obviously, and unfortunately kind of unavoidable. I also have had real bad pain issues over the last year from both injuries and likely chronic/autoimmune problems just like my mom. I usually end up dealing with…

i have my certs because i’m a restaurant manager and have been a cook before. the way i treat product at work is entirely different from how i treat it at home. not to mention the amount of stuff at work that i would never serve to a guest but more than willingly put into my own digestive system - i’m talking eggs…

As a restaurant manager, I have a bit of a bone to pick about the fingernail thing. Because yes, I would LOVE to always present super nice and clean nails to every guest I encounter. But that would mean either (1) never doing anything productive outside of paperwork - and probably including most of the paperwork, or…

I responded to Jenna Mari above about this. I used vaping to help me quit. Last time I quit I almost ate an ashtray full of butts (work in a restaurant). This time, I didn’t cheat at all. Now, to be fair, yes, I still vape over 2 years later, but I have lowered my nic amount over time. And I never really cared much…

have you tried vaping at all? I’ll admit, it has shitty connotations w/ “vape culture” and all that now, but I credit vaping with stopping me from relapsing with cigarettes again. Walked in to a shop on my pre-determined quit day and told them what I smoked, how much, and that I had a year to fall off the wagon if…

um.. ok, so texas is a right to work state, which means you can be fired for no apparent reason. i am a manager at my place of work, and honestly any time we fire somebody it’s just as likely that we’re trying to make sure we DON’T explain why as it is that we do, because we’re less likely to pay unemployment if…

I have a sibling who has worked for and with Franken for about a decade, and have met him several times. I have always considered him an asshole, and am not surprised by this one bit. He was never sexually aggressive toward me, on the contrary, he always pretended he’d never met me, would give me the cold shoulder,…

oh my god you’re me.

Someone help! I’m sick as hell and I have a need to blather about crap that’s bothering me but I don’t get how to navigate jezebel anymore because I am techno-dumb and still stuck on 2008-style jezebel in my brain, and I just need to find a regular open thread somewhere here to post some stuff, can someone please…

Yup yup... my brother is not an obama bro but he is friends with many and likely would have ended up an obama bro if he was less socially aware (i.e. he actually tries to understand and learn from other people and gets that he’s a bit of a dick sometimes)... they’re part of the reason he went off on his own as a…

erin_go_braless... I’m the youngest, but I have ridiculous depression and extistential dread issues and when it focused in on a closeup of her crying and clutching the doll the empathy part of my brain went, “yep, that’s the happy-sad cry of a child who knows life is gonna be rough because shit’s not fair” hooray for…

Just the other day, I was hanging out with a coworker after we clocked out, having a drink and chatting, and another coworker joined us - the type of person who you can never tell if they’re a real sociopath or simply incredibly narcissistic because of some deep-seated issues with themselves, you know? So this guy is…

I think in general, it’s simply human nature - we want to understand the “why” behind things, and when our own behavior is confounding to us, we latch on to whatever might explain it. Everybody does it, but only smart/introspective people do it and then qualify it with, “or maybe it’s not that - maybe I should see if…

As someone in the restaurant industry, our go-to method for rapid-cooling anything - but most importantly a whole bunch of red bulls for the staff on a hard night - is to put it in an ice bath inside a freezer.

I have a skin-picking obsession - the kind where I’ll pop anything that even closely resembles a zit, and I get super bummed out if I can’t find anything “good” to work on... I also have hidradenitis suppurativa, which is basically random skin cysts that pop up due to stress/hormones/chafing/whatever.

The fact that he chose to order Domino’s should be legal grounds to overturn the affluenza ruling. And if not, it should be legal grounds to change the legal system to allow for that overturn. Also, I am most definitely a real lawyer who understands the legal system. And I am not drunk, and this article is not kind of…

I actually don’t, and here’s why... I, along with I’m sure many other singers, have been told the same thing, i.e. that we’re amazing and goosebump-inducing... fact is, it’s all about luck in terms of whether you “make it”, and thus whether you are able to reach a large enough audience to have a substantial group of…

I requested off until Monday because I’m flying out to visit family for Thanksgiving. My boss decided to give me yesterday and today off as well (restaurant), so I decided why not pick up a shift for tonight, make an extra $100 or so before I miss out on a week of work... don’t care how broke I’d be, all I can think…

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My dad has the same problem... he’s in a state where it’s decriminalized and you can actually grow your own, and he has long-standing medical problems that would normally easily qualify him for a medical card, but he just DOES NOT know where to find any, and he’s hesitant to pursue it with his regular doctor who he…