Confessions of a Line Cook: sorry guys

Monday, October 5, 2009

sorry guys

hey i've been hella sick the last few days...i got sent home on friday (i'd much rather show up at work and get sent home for being sick than just call up and say "i'm sick"), missed saturday, and also had sunday and today to get back to fighting form.  i still don't feel 100%, i'm hovering around 70%, but in my line of work, if you have even a whiff of sick on ya you can't come to work.  period.  if you work in a cubicle banging away on a computer, or if you're a garbageman, or if you stock shoes at foot locker, you might get away with going to work as sick as i am.  however, when everything you do at work you do with your hands, and everything that you do with your hands ends up in someone's mouth, then it's a different story.  it's just safer.  i'm gonna be screwed money wise, cause i missed two big shifts (and all the tips that go with them), but i'll manage.  i always do.

anyway, that's why i haven't been posting angry rants about shitty late customers or tipping issues.  i seem to have some sort of snot factory inside my head, with what i assume to be tiny snot gnomes pourning tiny snot buckets of snot down my nose.  i dunno where they get the snot, but there's a lot of it, and i can only imagine the hilarity of their high pitched snot gnome voices whilst they sing as they do their work.  also, i bet they all have rubber boots.

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