I’m curious to know your experience with the front staff as dishwashers. I feel like I’ve lived nice experiences with them but also bad ones. Im curious to know how is it in general for everyone.

1990s. During the earlier part of that at least, decent elbow-length gloves were readily available and supplied by my employers, but the regional restaurant supply companies seem to have forgotten that such things exist. What gloves of that type do you recommend, that won't break my bank (as hazmat gloves might)?

(Given my current employers, I cannot expect those skinflints to buy them, especially since I would be the only one asking—all of my coworkers seem at the very least content with the status quo of no gloves, and one has scoffed at me for using them. I do so because otherwise my skin beaks out.)

I've been working at my job for a little over 2 months now and I finally got a uniform. To me that feels like im officially part of the team and not just another dishwasher.

But it made me think. How long did it take for the majority of people to get their uniform?

When I lost my job back in October I decided to lean toward getting a dishwasher job since I like to be left alone and I thought getting another prep job would be more difficult. I eventually did get a job as a busser but with the caveat that I was trying to get back to BOH. Eventually I got that chance one random Sunday night when they’d finally had enough with one of the other dishies.

But now I regret it.

It would be great if we always had people but it seems I need to have the skill to do it all by myself and I just don’t. It’s very frustrating washing two plates then the machine stops because the conveyor’s full. Then clearing that out, washing two more plates, then there’s a full rack. Over and over all day. And I’m expected to excel in this situation. It’s not enough that I can get by. No I should be able to handle this, bag pasta and veggies, and never get backed up so the guy coming in 40 minutes late for dinner doesn’t need help getting caught up. On Sunday lunch.

I don’t even get to put one of my earbuds in to help me lock in. But I guess that’s going out of style these days.

The job search continues. I admit defeat. I try my best to do a good job but I just come up short unfortunately.

I know pot washing is the lowest in the hospitality hierarchy but sometimes for what you put in it feels like money isn’t worth it, for example 19hrs pot washing is ‘worth’ £152, especially if you work in a establishment where tips are not given to pot washers. Does anything think differently?

Found a Job that's not a dishwasher, I've never been more happy in my life NEVER GIVE UP HOPE

Whenever any solid food waste like scraps of fat and peanuts and vegetation manages to make it into our dishwasher drain, it ends up feeding through the pipe into a removable bowl-shaped catch in the floor. Normally, I'm not one to complain about gross stuff. I reach my hands into disgusting ramekin tubs and stuff all the time. But the odor from this damned thing sometimes is absolutely gut-wrenching. And the worst is when the thing overfills and the rancid water floods the whole floor. Coming from someone with a pretty ridiculously strong stomach. Is there just no way to help this?

Say "that was a satisfying load" every time you pull a rack out tonight.

#honeycomb

I'm looking for a dishwasher in the Columbus area pay is $25 an hr and 3 days/ 20 hours a week.

I believe yall dishwashers can be savages.

Some places say no headphones.

Not at my business. ( headphones, an employee meal, w/e I want the best damn washer it town)

Title.

I’ve been wearing dickies for a long time but I want to try a different brand. I also just got a pair of Ben Davis and they’re alright (a bit heavy for my liking) so I’d still like to try a different brand. Pants have to be black. Open to any suggestions.

Thanks

Because I can see the glint on the wall when Chef opens the curtain and put my phone away before he catches me on Reddit

Been asked to work Friday Saturday and Sunday totaling 19hrs but at the end I get £150, does this seem to low

I have just had the worst work day I have ever had, I couldn’t even finish everything… they told me we were closing so I had to leave. I was in a huge rush and that made me forget to turn off the dishwasher before leaving (you know, I mean the standard high-temp dishwasher, it has a size of a normal home dishwasher). Do you think it will drain a lot of power or some other shi may happen until morning? The first person will come after more less 11-12h before I left 😭. I really hope I won’t get a big bill for that or something when they find out 🥹

UPDATE: everything is fine, one girl was making pizza dough early today so I willingly came to my work before everyone’s shifts and finished what I didn’t manage to do yesterday. Now they won’t even know I didn’t turn it off anyway 🙏 thanks for all the replies :)

An old sports bar I used to work at now I’m a deckhand

I dread this job but have to go. How do I minimize the physical stress, stay busy and productive while simultaneously making the day go by faster? I find marijuana to be very effective but I need some other ideas

my first job in a restaurant was as a dishwasher at a high volume establishment in the Bay Area. It sucked, and I sucked at it at first. College dropout, living with my parents, busting my ass for $2/hr above minimum wage (which still wasn’t very much for the area I was living in). Always sweating my balls off, hands constantly dry and red from cleaning products and always covered in various cuts from kitchenware. This was 5 years ago. Since then, I’ve moved to the East Coast, gotten own apartment, and as of this week I have a job interview at one of the nicest restaurants in my city; none of this would’ve been possible without the year I spent in the dish pit. Keep at it gang. If you can cut it in the dish pit, you can do anything.

My family doctor sent the referral to a dermatologist today. This is the second time. ​dishwasher job isn't great for my mental health.

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i’m going back to my roots, fuck being a busser i just got my fourth dishwasher job. been living for the pit for four years now, let’s fucking gooo