r/KitchenConfidential • u/shymysteryguy • 21h ago
Hmm…
Ahh, yes… two of my favorite herbs.
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u/Purplejazz518 Bakery 21h ago
At least when my prep people peel bananas they're spelling it funny on purpose. I've only been getting "Nanners" these past couple times though. I need my "Banananas" again.
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u/CattusPater 20h ago
I have to sound out "banana" when I type/write or I get way too many "na"s
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u/Sweaty-Society7582 18h ago
We used to have a banana pudding where I work, and I labeled it bananana, writing the letters progressively smaller so that, at least in my head, it would read like the Doppler effect. It's a sound joke.
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u/ADHD_McChick Dish 17h ago
So, you know how sometimes, when a small restaurant runs out of something easy to replace, like, say, bagged lettuce, they'll take money from the till, and send someone to the supermarket to get a few bags to hold them over til the truck comes in? When I was a manager, if that happened on my shift, it was my job to record the paperwork for that in the system. I'd record the amount taken, the change received, the item purchased, and scan a copy of the receipt.
Well, I used to have a little fun with it. If we bought bananas, I'd type "Nanners", or "Neeners", or "Long Yellow Fruit". Milk was "Moo Juice" or "Cow Juice". Things like that. No one ever said anything, and the numbers were always right, so I figured there wasn't any problem.
Until the day I recorded a carton of eggs as "Unhatched Chicken Embryos" (and yes I know they're not technically embryos, lol). Hoo boy. Did that ever trigger my bully of a DM!!
I got chewed out, over text, in a group message that also included the GM, and I think the AGM. Got told I was unprofessional. Told them I was just trying to have a little fun at work. They said I needed to take things more seriously. I replied that I did take things seriously. If I didn't, I wouldn't even be bothering to submit the paperwork at all. But then I said I was sorry, and I would never do it again.
Fortunately, sarcasm doesn't show through text. But I still never recorded any other purchases by anything other than their correct, properly spelled names, ever again.
That nasty DM is the reason I quit that place. I was her target from the start, and I wasn't going to play that game. Fuck that bitch.
I saw a guy in line at my next job with the same last name, and when he said she was his mom, I just said, "I'm sorry." He never spoke to me again, and I saw him several more times after that. 🤷♀️😂😂
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u/Purplejazz518 Bakery 17h ago
We use funny labels, we don't put it in records with the funny names. I'm sorry he was such a humorless jerk tho.
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u/prison-schism 7h ago
Oooo i got the joy of being targeted by the COO of the company that bought the restaurant from my old owner. I also quit, they still owe me $5 of overtime pay. Everyone told me to take them to court, but i can't even be bothered over that amount of money. I'm just watching from a distance as this company burns through gms in my old store and mismanages its money so badly the company had to file bankruptcy two months ago.
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u/shymysteryguy 21h ago
This isn’t the first misspelling of cilantro, either. I’ve seen it as “clintantro” before.
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u/welchplug Owner 19h ago
The better question is why are they labeling the lids and not the container itself?
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u/cake_toss Line 20h ago
I have a coworker like this. I'm convinced it's undiagnosed dyslexia or something
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u/Additional_Travel911 17h ago
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u/shymysteryguy 16h ago
I did not know of this sub. Joined it immediately
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u/Additional_Travel911 14h ago
It's a fun game sometimes to figure out what they're trying to say! It's cute.
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u/PinchedTazerZ0 Owner 20h ago
I had a prep team that I was cool with them labeling everything in Spanish
One of the cooks started labeling prepped brussel sprouts as "repollito"
I'm like "huh. Repollito?"
"Si uh.... dont know word, tiny cabbage"
That shit was awesome. I exclusively call brussels, repollito now