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Everyone at my work who's younger than me works way harder. Often it's cause they're younger and aren't a very experienced and indispensable part of the business,my being canned would fuck the place up BIG time so I operate with a lot less fear and really try to endorse efficiently over hard work and also cause it's a kitchen to get people to stop giving 'help' that isn't asked for 'stop trying to help me and help me' yo paralhrase Morpheus. Where say there's an order for 3 pizzas that's a one person job and often someone will drop whatever they're doing to go help, that isn't necessary or useful, keep doing what your doing and let people both ask for help when needed and also when you go to help someone they're thr one cling the shots, the asker should instruct the person helping and the helper should ask what helps best. Having people jump in and finish orders that are 3 chits away from what I'm doing doesn't actually do anything for me. 'What can I do for you?' Is the first thing to say when offering help. Otherwise you're imposing 'help'
Any real aide begins with communication. Someone has to be able to ask what is needed and the other person might also need to be willing to ask for help and know what kind if help they need. Mutual aide, mutual responsibility. Ask for what you need and ask what people need.
I sent expect to and I hate when people try to read my mind. Don't try to anticipate, communicate. I'm maybe somewhere on the autism chart, dunno but I am captain adhd and running a kitchen somehow fits in with the kind of thing my brain likes doing. My favorite games are FTL and Papers Please. I've got a weird knack for logistics and can run a squad well enough I am certain I'd be kickasd guerilla but like in a war when people go off script without a quick talk or if thyre having an issue m, like my work has 2 deep fried things thar are an app and a salad add on and sometimes people forget take em our of the freezer or they just go fast and we gotta work from frozen, and it seems to escape people to tell me that and there will be a delay so I can tell the wait staff and they can tell the customer. It's a minor fuck up thar we've all made, I just need to know about it. Also I am good at food ar know a lot of work arounds for issues I get paid more cause I can solve these problems and work the delay into the flow but I need to be told about it. It's not a personal shortcoming and even if it is, it's necessary Intel.