KPs have the most important job. And they get treated like shit and paid peanuts
RAKP
Could have cleaned the walls first 🤣
And they’re dead right!
I became a kitchen Porter last summer. I left three days later.
Did porter work for a hotel in Newry last year. Treated like shit is exaggeratively understating how it was to the max.
The work load stacked on a 17 year old was horrible. 9 hour shifts too, which was not legal (?). At one stage I slit the webbing of my hand between my index finger and thumb open, right down to the tendon, and was put on wash up the following morning while being given out to for not carrying enough shit despite the fact that I couldn’t move my left hand. Fucking joke.
Every cook can govern
It used to say “Respect Al Porter” before all those allegations came out…
I took that same picture two weeks ago
Worked in restaurants for years. Kitchen porters are the most important member of any restaurant team. End of. Anyone who disrespects them is an idiot.
That’s a tough shift. I did it for awhile when things were up the shits.
Food fair, conferences, one or 2 weddings on and normal pub grub and restaurant on top of that on a hot day trying to rinse and fuck stuff on trays through the machine, at the same time putting stuff away and having chefs chuck pots welded with shite on them in the pile. Clean them while their hot or you’ve no chance.
For working people 👏
I always thought “Pearl divers” was a much nicer title. When I was in the military it was called “Dixieland” cos’ the big pots are Dixies. It was a punishment to go there.
RESPECT ALL PEARL DIVERS !!!!
I was a KP. People just assumed I couldn’t speak english. I was from the area, had worked as a KP previously and had a degree (post recession grad). min wage, hard work, split shifts and assumed to be a foreigner incapable of english is a hard gig.
Some KPs I’ve worked with have been the most well educated, hard working people I’ve ever met. Bottom rung of an already tough industry. A little bit of respect and decency can go a long way.
Was a waiter and a food runner and the KPs were sound lads who only got abuse off the chef. They did their job mad fast but god forbid they speak their own language amongst themselves when not interacting with the cooks. Wtf
When I was a waiter I loved the chats with the KP when bringing back the dirty plates. Always sound lads!
I remember working as a KP and taking shit … In another restaurant the KP lost it and stabbed one of the chef’s, the chef’s in our place started being very nice after that … 🙂
Based
Been a KP off and on for nearly ten years. Did it for about 4 months until just after last Christmas.
Couldn’t even drink a mug of tea over the space of 3 hours on the graveyard shift that I was covering for someone else at 12 hours notice without the manager bitching about it.
Turned out to be my last day too as it was silly of me to think the two weeks notice I gave meant I’d have two weeks of work left.
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KPs have the most important job. And they get treated like shit and paid peanuts
RAKP
Could have cleaned the walls first 🤣
And they’re dead right!
I became a kitchen Porter last summer. I left three days later.
Did porter work for a hotel in Newry last year. Treated like shit is exaggeratively understating how it was to the max.
The work load stacked on a 17 year old was horrible. 9 hour shifts too, which was not legal (?). At one stage I slit the webbing of my hand between my index finger and thumb open, right down to the tendon, and was put on wash up the following morning while being given out to for not carrying enough shit despite the fact that I couldn’t move my left hand. Fucking joke.
Every cook can govern
It used to say “Respect Al Porter” before all those allegations came out…
I took that same picture two weeks ago
Worked in restaurants for years. Kitchen porters are the most important member of any restaurant team. End of. Anyone who disrespects them is an idiot.
That’s a tough shift. I did it for awhile when things were up the shits.
Food fair, conferences, one or 2 weddings on and normal pub grub and restaurant on top of that on a hot day trying to rinse and fuck stuff on trays through the machine, at the same time putting stuff away and having chefs chuck pots welded with shite on them in the pile. Clean them while their hot or you’ve no chance.
For working people 👏
I always thought “Pearl divers” was a much nicer title. When I was in the military it was called “Dixieland” cos’ the big pots are Dixies. It was a punishment to go there.
RESPECT ALL PEARL DIVERS !!!!
I was a KP. People just assumed I couldn’t speak english. I was from the area, had worked as a KP previously and had a degree (post recession grad). min wage, hard work, split shifts and assumed to be a foreigner incapable of english is a hard gig.
Some KPs I’ve worked with have been the most well educated, hard working people I’ve ever met. Bottom rung of an already tough industry. A little bit of respect and decency can go a long way.
Was a waiter and a food runner and the KPs were sound lads who only got abuse off the chef. They did their job mad fast but god forbid they speak their own language amongst themselves when not interacting with the cooks. Wtf
When I was a waiter I loved the chats with the KP when bringing back the dirty plates. Always sound lads!
I remember working as a KP and taking shit … In another restaurant the KP lost it and stabbed one of the chef’s, the chef’s in our place started being very nice after that … 🙂
Based
Been a KP off and on for nearly ten years. Did it for about 4 months until just after last Christmas.
Couldn’t even drink a mug of tea over the space of 3 hours on the graveyard shift that I was covering for someone else at 12 hours notice without the manager bitching about it.
Turned out to be my last day too as it was silly of me to think the two weeks notice I gave meant I’d have two weeks of work left.
Fuck that job