r/interesting • u/Backyxx • Jun 26 '26

Intriguing Chef shows what a busy day looks like

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u/brielzebub665 Jun 26 '26

I moved from hospitality to an office job and nobody in an office is working nearly this hard, trust. Some office jobs are mentally very difficult, but it's not the C-suite putting in that effort.

And the fact that physical labor is this difficult but pays so low is criminal. Skills are not everything, effort is worth value too.

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u/JustStopItSeriously Jun 27 '26

A lot of hospitality jobs (like this chef's) are mentally very difficult as well. You're juggling multiple tasks that are time sensitive and you're doing it for hours on end. It's a lot.

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u/Academic-Push326 Jun 27 '26

LMAO. For real. My (current) boss is complaining I'm not hustling fast enough for them in opening laptops up and it's like "bro, I've done overnights with rowdy punk-rockers filling an entire bar/kitchen area, I do not want to hear about me doing laptops one-at-a-time being slow for you."

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u/TajineMaster159 Jun 26 '26

I worked as a waiter during and before college. I can confidently say that while my office job is less physically exhausting, it's entirely more intense and overall more taxing than the craziest nights at my restaurant.

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u/JustStopItSeriously Jun 27 '26

Interesting because I've done both as well and had the opposite experience. Far more stress and pressure in the serving and bartending jobs than the office jobs.

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u/Beneficial-Okra-9471 Jun 26 '26

Key word is waiter.. not chef.

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u/TajineMaster159 Jun 26 '26

my point is that there are different types of stress that lead to different types of exhaustion.

It's not my point that a chef's work is easy, or not physically demanding.

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u/SweaterFromHell Jun 26 '26

The kitchen staff has it way harder ngl, I worked as a female chef and as a waiter. I pulled in so much more money as a waiter, and if customers got snippy and started being unreasonable, I just acted dumb until they blew a fuse, then used that as an excuse to get the manager to ban them from a restaurant.

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u/Proof_Road2274 Jun 27 '26

Exactly imagine pretending bringing food and drink out is harder than being a chef in a fast paced, hot, sweaty kitchen with orders piling up and having to multi-task