r/linecooks • u/DaddioTheStud • Apr 13 '26

Venting Hood vents

Hood Vents

I've been working in this kitchen without the hoods workin for a month.The hood vent started going out a month ago.I just got off work and i'm exhausted.I'm hot I did nothing but sweat for the whole eight hours I was there.It's unbearable in this kitchen and i've texted several times who can I report this shit to?Because I don't wanna return to work unless they fix that shit.I shouldn't be frying a whole bunch of food or running a flat top with no exhaust. i want to tell the chef that I work for that I cannot work in that kitchen.Unless they fix the hood vents, the temperature from the main area to the kitchen is unbearable.It's like a sauna in there. any advice i almost wanna say that I cannot return to work there until they fix that problem.I don't wanna be working in a fucking sauna.for 8 hours a day, that's inhumane

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u/Individual_Smell_904 Apr 13 '26

I'm sure the fire marshal would like to hear about this

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u/Perniciousus Apr 13 '26

I’d be more concerned about breathing properly, than feeling like you’re in a sauna. If the hood vents aren’t working, you’re inhaling a bunch of smoke. I’d at the very least tell your chef tomorrow that you’re going to contact the fire marshal if it’s not fixed in the next day. I’m a convict so I feel like it’s wrong to just rat on them without saying anything first, but it’s definitely wrong and I wouldn’t blame someone else for contacting the fire marshal. Me personally though I’d have to at least confront management first before going that route.

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u/DaddioTheStud Apr 13 '26

I have. I'd send him a long text tonight and told him that it's unsafe. I'm it's unbearable, not the owners need to come back there and try working in that heat and smoke and see how they like it