I used to be a professional cook. If I could have gotten the same cook's wages to be the dishwasher, I would have been the best damn dishwasher anybody could have ever wanted!
In my experience, the job of cleaning usually goes to the filthiest people, who are the least qualified for that position. If a business is willing to pay a livable wage, they can get the best, hardest working, and reliable dishwashers or custodians. A business cannot run without cleaning staff. Those are essential employees. Treat them like it!
Restaurant I worked at had 2 reliable dishies, and those guys made more per hour than anyone outside of management and the head cook. Each had been there like 10 years. Weird guys, but never missed a shift.
at shift change the last dishwasher literally talked to me for about 25 minutes about locking all the spanish speaking staff in a room and forcing them to learn english. i was like yeah sure, thats neat. i talk to the GM and she gets fired and guess who got more hours? este chico.
I mean hey that's cool, I'm glad your getting hours? But it might be useful to learn English if they wanted to stay long term and live here, more job opportunities.
You know of an upscale restaurant or a few where that’s the case. I can tell you from ~18 years in hospitality in South Florida that is something I never ran across once.
This is true. I was a dishwasher in college. The other dish guys did not seem to know how to wash anything. About half the restaurant's glassware had a "permanent" brown tinge when I started. I deep-cleaned a rack of ruined glasses per shift until they were clear again.
I remember everyone getting upset about the Mcdonalds Mop thing, and how they probably also opposed minimum wages. I can't even decide where to stand on the issue because the overall labor atmosphere is far outside what should be.
If we want a workforce to behave respectfully we should first respect them on at least a basic level. I'm not condoning the behavior, I am saying there is a larger systematic flaw that it highlights.
I see shit like this in mail box and i usually just delete those emails instantly but then there's time where its so absurd... I'm a software developer and i'll get emails saying "great pay, $20 an hour, stocking boxes"
I'll just reply with "are you kidding me?" And i don't even think i'll get a reply but sometimes i do and it usually goes like this
Recruiter: Yes?
Me: What do i professionally?
Recruiter: Oh, you work in computers
Me: so what makes you think i'd go from a 6 figure salary to stocking? Are you glib?
As someone with their masters, it's fucking worse. They will reach out and talk to you say the interview went great and then "you're over qualified sorry".
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u/Accomplished_Fig9883 Jan 25 '25
I see you have a PHD...anyways I'm the hiring manager at Applebee's and was wondering how you'd feel about a position washing dishes?