An executive chef shared this story about a very young and very eager new hire he came across:
…Friday we were in the middle of a dinner service and my station is directly across from a stack of combi ovens. This guy is behind me loading and unloading things from these ovens and every time he fires something he goes “BOOP” as he presses the start button. He does this at a VERY audible level and with a pretty high pitch. Think what you would say as you “booped” a dog’s nose. but loud enough to be heard in a busy kitchen.
He’s been doing this for a week or so, and it’s now annoying the shit out of me. So I finally turn and say: “BRO, the boop…. What the fuck.” Oddest sentence I’ve ever called out.
He says “oh the guys that trained me told me you like to hear the “boops” because you look at the clock and keep mental notes to remind us to pull things?” He said it like a question.
I ask “isn’t that what the damn thing chiming is for at the end of the cook?”
And without missing a beat he says “I do now realize as we’re talking that those guys were fucking with me and I’m sorry for distracting you Chef.” With the most “Oh shit” Look on his face. I look over and my crew is just losing it. It was truly a moment of Grace Under Fire.
Recorded 1-18-2025
Visibility: Rainy / Snow
Night:2:37:39
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Destinations in chronological order:
South Charleston, WV: B-3:37, 21:24-28:48, 47:25-1:41:12, 2:22:29-2:32:52, 2:47:01-3:35:35, 3:59:36-E
Thomas Hospital Rear Entrance, US60/MacCorkle Avenue, I64, Kanawha Turnpike, WV601/Jefferson Road, US119/ Corridor G, Southridge, WV214/Childress Road Access, I64, D Street, South Charleston Mound, Riverwalk Plaza
Dunbar, WV: 3:37-6:54, 18:07-21:24, 28:48-32:20, 44:03-47:25
I64
Cross Lanes, WV: 6:54-8:51, 16:19-18:07, 32:20-34:21, 42:19-44:03
I64
Nitro, WV: 8:51-16:19, 34:21-42:19
I64, WV25/ 1st Avenue
Alum Creek, WV: 1:41:12-1:48:22
WV214/Childress Road, WV9/Greenview Road
Tornado, WV: 1:48:22-1:51:41
WV9/Smith Creek Road
Saint Albans, WV: 1:51:41-2:22:29
WV9/Smith Creek Road, WV6\6/Ferrell Road, Armstrong Tunnel (missing for some reason but I did upload a short), Shadyside Road, B Street, US60/MacCorkle Avenue, 6th Avenue
Charleston, WV: 2:35:52-2:47:01, 3:35:35-3:59:36
I64, Lee Street Exit to US119/Pennsylvania Avenue North, US60/Washington Street West, US60/WV25/Patrick Street-Iowa Street, Capitol Street, Capitol Market, East End Plaza, Furniture District, Piedmont Road, Farnsworth Drive, Renaissance Circle, Triangle, Court Street, Washington Street, Pennsylvania Avenue South, Kanawha Boulevard
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