Anyone else hate stupid people?

[W.DeBord]

One of the first "food" jobs I worked at as a young teen was at a local Wendy's. The manager even though he was a tough guy loved to have fun with every new employee, just to see how dumb they were. He'd assign kids to refill the water fountain with a bucket of water and a plastic spoon.

9 times out of 10 the kid would!

[holydiver]

We used to send people to find the stove stretcher and light bulb grease.

Holy cow, I haven't laughed this hard in a long time!!! One of the best things that I ever heard was at my first job in a hospital kitchen. Any new recruits were told that they either had to ride through the dish machine or they had to climb into the dumpster. And some of them actually said they wanted to go throught the dishmachine!!! Finally we had to tell them we were only kidding. Silly rabbits!!

[Nick.Shu]

actually, i have another story in regards to odd things that ppl do in day to day life.

One shift, i was working with a UT dude who was from china. Now being Eurasian myself, i kinda understand the chinese way of eating. One day he asked me if he could make himself dinner and i said yep, help yourself.

When i came back from having a cigarette, this was the following scene:

1 very happy UT dude.
1 large bowl of some sort of soup with noodles.
No chicken stock in the coolroom
No chicken stock in the service fridge
1 skanky gastronorm with dirty spoons et al less about 1 litre of stinky soak water.

2+2= oops.

Needless to say, Mr UT enjoyed his meal and i smoothed over the waters by not mentioning the missing soaking water.

[m brown]

....oh man.........

I hate stupid people, that's why I work BOH. There are stupid people, just less than FOH.

Waiter comes into the kitchen lunch service asks how do I know Cap Machine is on (Uh, red light is on for starters) Then needs to know how to tell if bread warmer is on (Uh, we don't have one?<what has he been doing with all the rolls we've been warming for each table?!> ) Then needs a Bloody Mary.
(Uh, from the kitchen? We have a 30 foot bar out front.)
All of this in less than 10 min.!

[m brown]

PS, this was NOT his first day.
By FOH I ment besides the odd waitperson, there are some wacky customers too.

Afra: I totally hear you about the nasty men asking you out!!! I had one come up to me today and tell me that he wasn't leaving until I said that I would go out on a date with him. Um, let me see. You are 50. I am 20. You are a disgusting fat pig of a man. Go away!!! I was so disgusted. People say, "You should be thankful that people flirt with you", but skanky-looking stinky people are just not my type!!!

[kokopuffs]

Folks, what we have right here in our very own forum is battle of the sexes. Next in line, please...

[monpetitchoux]

Bringing it right back on track. You ought to get a load of some of the stupid people I work with. For some reason or another, they are concetrated in the front of the house and mostly in the cocktail lounge. The pastry chef and I entertain ourselves by holding stupid people contests...and there's a winner everynight.

Last night's winner: A waiter who couldn't tell me what the primary grape in a California Chardonnay is.

First runner up: A Vietnamese cocktail waitress who couldn't tell a customer what the difference between fish sauce and soy sauce is (we work in a Vietnamese restaurant).

Bronze medal: A waiter who asked me what other fruits we use in the passionfruit sorbet.

[shroomgirl]

Farmer's markets without farmers!!!! Way stupid, way more stupid, people that don't know the difference and think we grow tropical fruit in the Midwest.

[Pastachef]

Afra, I have to tell you a funny story that happened to me this summer. The girls at our sorority house always give the employees tee shirts with their logos and letters on them. I got so used to getting them that I don't even stop to read them anymore. Well, one day over the last summer I went to my doctor's office for a checkup. This old codger kept hitting on me, and I couldn't figure out why. I'm normally a very reserved person. I got home and my sons happened to notice what the back of my tee shirt said and they both busted out laughing. On the front of the shirt it says, (with a very serious photo of Uncle Sam) 'Wanted.' On the back, it said 'a few good men.' Needless to say the shirt quickly went in the trash can. People think my 33 year old daughter and I are sisters, and I'm married to a younger man for ten years without a fight. This old guy was really barking up the wrong tree. But I guess it was my own stupidity.

There are definitely some people out there that are a few beers short of a six-pack.

Pastachef: Those were some pretty interesting "winners" on your list. People like that shouldn't be allowed in foodservice.

My favorite thing to do is listen to people talk and say silly things. I have a book of messed up words and phrases. I list the mistake as well as the creator. I'm in there about a million times. Although my favorite mistake was made by my sister. She wanted to say,"Absence makes the heart grow fonder". What came out was, "Heartness makes the grond go farther". I laughed for about half an hour. Tee hee!!!

[shahar]

The most stupid act i ever seen:
We got a new worker in the restaurant where i was working at the time. He didn't look bright but we were very short on people at the time. He cap't stumbling into people and getting in the way. To get him off our back so service would be done i sent him to the storage room to arrange good that arrived. Mainly opeing thirty kilos of suger packed in 1 kilo bags and filling the large pastry container.
Easy enough isn't it? Well i get there 10 minutes later and i see him emptyng a salt bag in!!!
Good thing i stopped him he already mixed 15 kilos of suger with 15 kilos of salt!

Thinking of it now i could have used that to make enough gravalax to treat world hunger.

[shahar]

we ere trying to think out a technique to seperate them. Thechnicly you can do that by immersing in water adn then seperating the salt using electrodes(it will also create large amounts poisounds Na).
We used it whenever we needed both suger and salt. But how can you get rid of so much. Now I know I can use it in curing, but i didn't know how to cure at the time.

[Pastachef]

Bekka, as for your book of things people say, you would love a day with a co worker of mine. She talks baby talk and she's very large. She won't have a 'puter' in her house...she can't find her 'pockey book'...when we're crossing a street together she refers to us as 'destrians'...she hates 'mmercials.' She will not pronounce more than two syllables of any word. THIS in a college environment? It's nauseating. I know that she knows better, but thinks it's cute Taters...nannas...ployment...surance...It drives me nuts!
LOL, Greg

[ May 26, 2001: Message edited by: Pastachef ]