Done with this resteraunt industry bs

So I moved from california about 6 months ago to live up here in washington. I took the first job I could so I could establish myself out here, a dishwashing job at a thai food resteraunt.

After giving these guys months of great work, I injure myself, one time on my own personal time fracturing my heel. Then 2 weeks later I cut my hand on a glass at work.

They first started just giving me a couple days off for healing, which has now turned into full blown "we'll call you when we need you."

I'm pretty done with this, gonna go back down to california and get my hash making setup and come back up here, I don't know why I ever thought I could do something outside of the cannabis industry without feeling completely belittled and worthless.

Guess I'm starting to now feel the pain of many others on here, and I now want to use that as motivation to get any stake I can in this industry up here before it's too late.

I just wish we as people were in more of a position to just tell a job to f*** off when we feel mistreated and disrespected. The best I can do for this resteraunt is call the health department on their ass and make their week miserable.

*end vent* Would love to hear similar experiences from you guys.

It's a restaurant you start in the pit and move your way up that's how it is
I was in the pit from 15-19 than moved. To salads than ect ect

Don't expect much more than the pit after three months

Sorry you cut your hand wrap it and go back into the pit
I had DQT In my thumb and still worked

The cut was far too deep to go back to work, I wasn't expecting much more than the pit, i was just expecting to still be able to have a job AFTER I healed from my injury.

Is that really too much to ask?

if you are already knowledgable on cannabis, and you live in a legal state, why not get a job in that industry?

poplars said:

The cut was far too deep to go back to work, I wasn't expecting much more than the pit, i was just expecting to still be able to have a job AFTER I healed from my injury.

Is that really too much to ask?

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sorry man, when i first started working on cars, i had two jobs, auto industry in the AM, and then I worked in the restaurant biz, in the PM, for two to three years, I used to deliver pizzas and Italian food for a high-end Italian restaurant, and one thing is for sure, they don't give a damn about the employees, if you were sick, get someone to cover you, if not? then go spread your germs to people... I was literally forced (under threat of termination) to work with laryngitis and the flu, I had a temp of 102 degrees and my bosswould have fired me if I didn't cover the shift. Sure I could have talked to a lawyer.. but I was 22 yrs old, and I had zero saving zero money, so I worked... Who knows who I got sick? It's fucked up industry.

Thats the plan now, I need to get my medical rec first and do not have the money for it.

You worked for three months most people need steady employees you cut yourself tht bad ? Like so fucking bad you couldn't work ?
Than their idiots
But I doubt it was that bad so they replaced you because you decided to take holiday

It's the restaurant industry, who said it was fair? It's for the hardest of the hard and the toughest of the tough. A kitchen is run in the classic brigade system... It's called that because it's a war in there. I've been in it for 18 years now... I'm 34.... And have done every job in a restaurant from dish to owner. I know I learned my lesson as a scrub and now overpay my team and make the restaurants awesome and cool places to work but if you're going to be a pussy I know I have no time or $ for you... And I tell my staff that. I don't want them working injured or super sick but if they want money they work and earn it.

Sorry to hear of your problems but don't get in a restaurant unless you have plans to stay in it for a career. Trust me, if it's just to make a paycheck and you're not all in, there's better suited jobs for you. You'll work too hard for too little pay in a restaurant- unless you don't care and are aspiring to run the show.

be a greenhorn on a plumbing crew , then well talk shit jobs , soaking wet in 20deg weather coveralls freezing to the ground with you in them . crawling under a old house with about a 1-1/2 foot crawlspace just to have somebody walk across the floor and pin ya to the ground stuck between 2 floor joists . i could go on and on , shit happens sometimes you just have to be tuff

Get on the floor, my brother. Wa pays about $10/hr to servers who also make tips. You were at a Thai place in Northern WA, forget about it. Get back out there and lie your way into a server's position, even if it's a start somewhere like Shari's. You should avg $20/hr with half being cash. Good luck.

Dishwasher for a thai restaurant... honestly what can you expect from that

It's hard for me to advise you on how to get into the industry if you don't have any contacts there yet. Go to dispensaries if possible and try talking to managers etc.

However I can tell you this, 8 years ago I nearly left this place and went back to my easy life in London. I wasnt growing back then. Something made me stay because I knew the rewards would be high eventually. Little did I know that this place was about to become a MJ club city. By the time the movement started I'd already set up and already made my contacts. Loads of my mates/aquaintences opened clubs and life has been good fun.

You should stick around and see what you can do over there. Don't be too quick to return home yet. I'm am so so glad that I didn't.

Skuxx said:

Dishwasher for a thai restaurant... honestly what can you expect from that

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All of this you can stand?

ClaytonBigsby said:

Get on the floor, my brother. Wa pays about $10/hr to servers who also make tips. You were at a Thai place in Northern WA, forget about it. Get back out there and lie your way into a server's position, even if it's a start somewhere like Shari's. You should avg $20/hr with half being cash. Good luck.

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TRUE! If you can be a server and have a decent personality, the tips can be very lucrative

I really find the comments saying did you really cut your finger that bad very offensive. it was a 2 cm laceration and it went down to the vein, I had to have it coterized at the emergency room (after I stayed at work the whole day after cutting it.)

I went to the emergency room LATER that evening after changing the bandaging and snagging it on something, it started bleeding again and wouldn't stop. I didn't think I would have to prove it was an injury that bad but jesus christ there was nothing to stitch up, it was the worst cut I've ever got in my life, nuff said.

Not to mention it is STILL healing, over 2 weeks later.


I'm going back down to california for 2 weeks to get my equipment and sort everything out, then I'm rolling back up here and getting my rec then trying for work at dispensaries or anywhere I can start honestly.