reading tickets.

I work the Wheel.  This spot is usually reserved for the Sous Chef or Chef, but luckily for me the Corp. gods decided the Chef should be doing an 8/hr expo job.  We use the term 'Chef'' to describe them very lightly, remembering we work in a Corp. kitchen and the gods who can't be seen make all of the food and beer decisions.

The Wheel is a place few people will tolerate.  There are at least two people who have been at the job longer, who are perfectly capable- who refuse to run the wheel.  The main reason I hate the wheel is that line cooks (who will now be referred to as dogs, which is fine because I am one of them) are fucking assholes.  All of them.  Most of them work two jobs, and I work the night shift- so most of them are on doubles and aren't happy.  If it gets busy and I have to make a call to saute- 'side of mac walking in' - I should hear them say 'heard' or a similar snippet.  But they don't, because they are dicks and they hate me.  It's up to me to look at them, and decide whether they heard me.  If they heard me and I call it again- they're even more mad.  If I miss a call- it's the fucking world's end because now they have to 'fly' something to the window while they are working 10 other dishes.

When you're on the wheel- you are responsible for every fuck up.  Servers are too stupid to understand that there are multiple stations on a grille line.  Fry sold you the wrong app, but it's my fault because no server can see beyond the person facing them.  Servers are your enemy, and they aren't very smart.  The next blog will be the FOH (front of house) blog.  The wheel sucks for a lot of different reasons- but the payoff should be bigger for working the station.  I personally am being trained for Supervisor.  This is because I proved that even though the wheel is impossible and no human should have to do it- I proved that I will accept any awful form of punishment they throw at me.

One big station I failed to mention is the prep.  They take up the entire back of the kitchen, they play loud rap music all day long and they suck and they are rude.  Fuck them.  The aren't on the totem poll, because they fucking suck.