Topic: Tell me about working as a Dishwasher! (Read 1646 times)

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How the fuck have you never washed a dish in your life.  How is that even possible.


I say go for it.  It's repetitive and boring, but it's completely mindless.  It's very low-stress, and you usually won't have people yelling at you (at least not once you get the hang of it). 
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I don't mind it but of course I work in the kitchen of a camp and all my coworkers are friends/family and we all have fun so yeah.  Anyways, basically spray dishes, put them in the tray, run them through.  Shitty dishes might need some scrubbin' but it's relatively easy.  Of course I can't say for certain though because I've only done this and never worked in a restaurant or anything like that which would probably be very different.

Beasly, I work at a summer camp and the most we have to wash is like 500 plates and it's not that hard considering the machine we have we don't actually have to scrub each one by hand.  Usually the machine gets everything off when it goes through (sometimes it requires 2 or 3 times) but some you have to scrub.
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It is high stress because if your slow ass is too slow and customers/dishes start stacking up....
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it definitely depends on where you go. i work at a country club where the chefs/employees are really friendly to the  mostly spanish-speaking dishwashers and even though the work is pretty terrible, it ends up being a fairly OK environment. I'm sure there are a lot of restaurants where this same job would be very depressing and others would make you feel like shit
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Dishwashing is derogatory, thankless and pretty much an all-around shit job. No one wants to wash dishes, and I think the only way you'd enjoy doing it is if you had a friendly workplace, which is sort of rare in the restaurant business. I work as a chef and I see way too many dishwashers either getting pushed around or just walking about being generally miserable and hating their job/lives.

Do something else instead. Get a job waiting, marketing, selling shit or something else that requires little education.

Drule, if you are the chef then you are supposed to have control in the kitchen. Why not try and make things better for your dishwashers?
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dishwasher?!?

excellent choice

i think you found the right career path
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Drule, if you are the chef then you are supposed to have control in the kitchen. Why not try and make things better for your dishwashers?

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I've worked as a dishwasher in a local restaurant before, but in all honesty it was pretty terrible. The hours were standard (8-9 hour shifts), but it was GOGOGO all the time. I wasn't just doing dish though, I was expected to prepare salads, and grabs things for the cooks. It was incredibly fast-paced at some points and after a few months I just couldn't take it anymore.
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I've had to dishwash alot btw and it does suck ass but I wouldn't say its the worse work you could possibly be doing. Make sure you're wearing dishwashing gloves or something because the detergent can irritate your skin. There really isn't much to discuss when it comes to dishwashing its kind of self explanatory, go as fast as you can so you can keep all of the nastiness from the food and shit cleaned up and get breaks but don't go too fast and break shit.

people keep complaining about it being too busy and shit but honestly that isn't too bad because it keeps you busy and from being bitched at for fucking off plus it makes time go by alot faster.
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I've had to dishwash alot btw and it does suck ass but I wouldn't say its the worse work you could possibly be doing. Make sure you're wearing dishwashing gloves or something because the detergent can irritate your skin. There really isn't much to discuss when it comes to dishwashing its kind of self explanatory, go as fast as you can so you can keep all of the nastiness from the food and shit cleaned up and get breaks but don't go too fast and break shit.

people keep complaining about it being too busy and shit but honestly that isn't too bad because it keeps you busy and from being bitched at for fucking off plus it makes time go by alot faster.

Literally having to run back and forth doing salads and cleaning dishes isn't my idea of 'not too bad.' Sure, there are probably WORSE jobs, but at least where I was then went through something like seven dishwashers in a few months before I was there. It was ridiculously fast paced to the point where taking breaks was basically out of the question, because by the time you got back you'd have so much shit to do.
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Dishwashing depends entirely where you work. If the environment is alright, the job is alright. It's idiot work, but it's a paycheque. So who cares? A job's a job. I worked as one at Casey's for a summer. I got free drinks served to me, got to play my own music, and super cheap food.
The only thing I loathe about dish washing, is ramicans. Those little cup-like dishes/bowls for coleslaw or dips. Fuck I hate those things with a passion.
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Yeah I get free fountain drinks at work. The chefs also put out food for the staff.
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Literally having to run back and forth doing salads and cleaning dishes isn't my idea of 'not too bad.' Sure, there are probably WORSE jobs, but at least where I was then went through something like seven dishwashers in a few months before I was there. It was ridiculously fast paced to the point where taking breaks was basically out of the question, because by the time you got back you'd have so much shit to do.

Sounds like my job at wal-mart that I had for about 4 year Pushing Cart and believe me it's a thank less job and I probably was 10 time worse then a dishwasher. Hell I was in the heat, the rain, the snow, thunderstorms. I was running around like a chicken with out head. I hate taking a lunch since everything is gone, most of the time in about 15 min. Then I have customers bitching at me telling my the obvious. Then you got your random psycho trying to make your life even hard. Then random spills and carryouts.
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depends.... how good is your spanish?
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The only thing I loathe about dish washing, is ramicans. Those little cup-like dishes/bowls for coleslaw or dips. Fuck I hate those things with a passion.

I fucking hate those things.  And I hate their name!  Why can't they be called "little condiment cups"?? 

I worked as a busser at a place that required all front-end staff to wear long-sleeve oxfords buttoned all the way up (sleeves and collars) with ties and aprons.  It was hot as fuck and impossible to keep clean when you're cleaning up after people who leave a table looking like they just ate off the floor.  Then you're expected to help with dish AND food prep.  Holy shit.  THEN you see waitstaff just standing around drinking soda, not doing a goddamn thing when there's shit to be done.  Please cut me some slack.  On busy nights, I envied the dishwasher, because he was paid as much as I was, but he didn't have to dress like a tool AND do the dirty work.
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How the fuck have you never washed a dish in your life.  How is that even possible.

Maybe he has an actual dishwasher, I prefer to wash the dishes by hands rather than using my dishwasher... it takes half the time.
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you still have to clean the dishes a lil bit before putting them in the dishwasher
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Yeah really we have a dishwasher and there's still tons of dishwashing to be done.  And sometimes you don't have enough dishes to really justify using the dishwasher so you end up washing them by hand anyway.
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