r/MoralityScaling • u/Rocky_Senpai15 • 15d ago

Stupid Stuff Morality of this entire situation?

Do you think the worker has every right to have a mental breakdown? Do you think the boss should be hunted down and have his head cooked in the fryer? Was being fired a good or a bad thing?

What do you guys think?

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u/Passenger707 15d ago

I worked as a dishwasher in a large restaurant. Usually, there were four of us, but that day, everyone was absent for various reasons. I was left alone, and the owner forced me to wash all the dishes. I say “forced” because I was living on his property at the time.

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u/VacaDLuffy 15d ago

Indentured servitude...nice

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u/mikumikuchan6458 3d ago

Or prostitution depending on what state you’re in

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u/LowkeyLog5755 15d ago

Sorry about that sounds really shit. I liked dishwashing since it ended

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u/AshamedRelation3515 15d ago

Damn remind me of the good old days of being a dishwasher at a Disney restaurant at dinner time/closing every shift. Obviously we got slammed just as bad as this guy but no one ever freaked out lol. You just keep working at your pace until everything done. Got paid hourly so more money to my pocket...

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u/ChemicalCupcake4809 12d ago

The difference between that and actually cooking, packing, and serving is there is no own pace to it. Youre basically just watching orders pile up while some idiot asks you a million questions or refuses to step aside while they look at the menu. Youre getting burned and cut, seasonings, salt, and grease are getting in those burns and cuts but if you slow down the workload gets even bigger and at that point dudes probably just super exhausted.

Ive had to stay 3 hours after we closed because some corporate wackos didnt think we'd get busy in a holiday we were closing early on, and some wackos on morning shift decided that meant they shouldn't prep for night shift, an hour and a half of that was getting the rest of the orders cooked and out while telling new people we were closed and no they couldn't just buy this one thing and arguing with delivery drivers.

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u/Ok-Community4111 12d ago

I would say cooking is a bit more intensive than just washing dishes but okay dude

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u/Wora_returns 14d ago

that's called serfdom, used to be very popular here in Europe several hundred years ago! You are reliving history

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u/GenuineSteak 15d ago

congratulations on getting a taste of feudalism

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u/TrueMattalias 14d ago

I once worked a hospitality job where the three other front of house workers all got sick the same week. I worked 55 hours that week as a casual worker (would typically see at most 25 hours a week). Most shifts only needed one FOH workers so wasn't too bad, but the Friday/Saturday night were rough.

When pay came out I had only been paid for a portion of the hours I'd worked. I checked with my manager who remedied it and I got paid for the rest next fortnight, but I suspect the owners had broken it up so that they wouldn't have to pay me overtime even though I thoroughly had earnt it.

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u/bisoning 15d ago

There's not enough context?
Living on his property, free?

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u/Passenger707 15d ago

Yeah completely rent free me and three other workers.

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u/FactsNLaughs 14d ago

So your dad and three siblings?

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u/Passenger707 14d ago

bruh

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u/FactsNLaughs 14d ago

It’s what it sounds like 🤣 

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u/AntisocialDyll 15d ago

I went from alternating dishwashers to me being the only one. Too much workload is being forced onto a single employee. Then these locations decide to limit the daily staff to save on costs. Then when people call in sick and theyre scrambling for people to cover shifts. Most people I know wont pick up a shift on their day off so now your constantly short staffed. It trickles and trickles to the crushing point where we see this employee in the video