and no one irl even has the decency to agree with me because it’s so fucking drilled into the culture that these fucking BuNsInNesSes have a Right to do this because it’s a bSUsniEss. like oh yeah they have an office building so they definitely get to analyze my piss because they say they want to. sick fucking freaks.
preaching to the choir a bit on lemmy (or i would hope so at least) but still
Same. I was a cook in a casino restaurant (bear with me), and when I applied for the job the head chef asked me “can you pass a drug test?” I said “oh yeah, I don’t do any dr-”, he interrupts me to say “I didn’t ask if you do any drugs, I asked if you can pass a drug test. Yes or no?”
Well, turns out 2 line cooks had heroin problems, the head chef, sous chef, and morning lead chef were functioning alcoholics, one general manager was coked out of his fucking mind 24/7 until the last few days before payday, the other was taking about 3x as much xanax as anyone should, and the wait staff smoked approximately as much as Snoop Dogg.
Needless to say, that place was the definition of a runaway clusterfuck. Much of their problems were caused by the rampant drug use amongst the employees that could have been prevented if they were a little more thorough with the drug tests, rather than literally giving me the pee cup to take home and bring back later.
Welcome to the service industry. The dish washer usually has the best hook up.
Oh no, that was my first kitchen job, I’ve since quit the industry after 10 years in kitchens.
Everyone out here pretending like this scenario isn’t a problem.
Apparently casino management is fine with a shit show kitchen.
Was the food good?
They didn’t care, we were often reminded that our job is not to make good food or even make profit on food sales, it was only to keep people in the casino. If customers leave to grab some food elsewhere they’re unlikely to come back and gamble more, but if they eat in the casino they usually do gamble more.
It’s a big part of the reason why casinos give out meal comps if people have just lost a lot of money, because that’s when most tend to just go home. But give them free food, and they feel more content after a little break from the slots and a full belly, and they’re much more likely to sit back down for “just a few more spins” on their way to the exit. So casinos exploit that to squeeze even more money out of problem gamblers, their biggest cash-cows. Disgusting tactics, truly despicable.
But anyway, some cooks were dedicated and made great food regardless, most of the head chef’s and sous chef’s responsibilities were dumped onto them for no extra pay. Too much pride and loyalty for their own good. But I’d say like half of the kitchen staff on any given day were either nodding off high as shit in the smoking area (or even behind the line, open kitchen btw), buying drugs or selling stolen meat in the parking lot, jacking off in the bathroom, or shooting up/passed the fuck out on the dirty mattress that someone had dragged into an empty shipping container out back.
That said, it was the “high-end” restaurant in the casino.
Fuck that’s heaven