SC - Horror Story (Warning, angry cook venting)

[geneviamoas at juno.com]

I hate to say this but it sounds just like my mundane job. Sorry to hear
of it happening in the Middle Ages. Pass a token or favor off to one of
the better fighters and let them Challenge the Autocrat to "friendly "
combat for you. Then stand on the sidelines and ... Well , you take it
from there. Keep'em cautious and respectful and your fighters well fed
and aware of the benefits of a friendly, "indebted" feastocrat/cook.
Aggressive and passive and assertive all at once.
Genevia

On Sat, 6 Jun 1998 18:59:26 +1000 The Cheshire Cat <sianan at geocities.com>
writes:
You have made a blow for creative freedom & acknowledgment for all of us
SC cooks! 
>>> Master Huen
>Warning.....coolant leak.....reactor temperature rising......
>
>Right, everyone telling their stories of woe has brought back a nasty 
>memory.
>>
>I have a Horror story to tell,but I was just a helper.
>
>  At a rather ambitious feast at the end of last year, something 
>happened
>that actually scared off one poor cook for a whole six months.
>The Autocrat suggested a lunchtime feast.  This in itself wasn't a 
>problem.
>The location was a terrible once since it was way out back of 
>Whoop-Whoop,
>not close to anywhere of any convenience.  It was chosen for the 
>setting if
>nothing else.  He DELEGATED this young girl into feastocratting, and 
>then
>put her in a position where she couldn't back out if it.  So she 
>soldiered
>on, right up to several crisises in her life which effectively made
>attending the feast difficult, let alone Feastocratting it!  So  a few 
>of
>the kinder people helped out.  I researched the recipes and helped 
>cook
>them.
>   We made the Autocrat promise to provide some items that would be 
>needed,
>A tent of some kind to keep the food in, a table to prepare the food 
>for
>serving and a couple of chairs.  One week ahead, when the cooking was 
>in
>full swing,  She got the flu and so did several others.  Those who did 
>not
>succumb battled on.
>   The day of the even arrived and all arrived to enjoy the event.  
>The sun
>was shining and the spirits were high since there was to be fighting 
>after
>lunch.  The cooks in the carloads of food arrived aonly to find that 
>the
>Autocrat didn't bring any table or chair and the tent was only a tiny
>A-frame.  The cooks were a little annoyed, but we spread out some rugs 
>and
>set about preparing the food for serving.
>Every one was happy until we discovered that the Autocrat did not give 
>us
>any room in the feast area and the numbers of people expecting to be 
>fed
>was waaaaaay over what he told us.  So the feast was slightly 
>undercatered.
>To this the Autocrat saw fit to barge into the small area we set aside 
>as
>the cooks area and berate us all.  Me, I'm not one who likes to be 
>screamed
>at, so I stood up and screamed right back at him.  If I was a fighter, 
>I
>would have laid on with every bit of strength left me.  The Feastocrat 
>just
>burst into tears.
>  The Autocrat, after the Lunch led EVERYONE else off to the fighting 
>area,
>leaving to cooks to clear everything off the tables and get them ready 
>for
>collection.  (He had organised them to be collected by the hire 
>company at
>2.00pm.
>  In closing court, the cooks got not one bit of credit for what I 
>thought
>was a superhuman effort in the face of such idiocy.  And we suffered 
>though
>snide comments about undercatered feasts for weeks.  The Autocrat 
>spread
>the word that those who cooked was to blame fo everything, and that 
>this
>young girl, who had taken a little too much stress and was on 
>councelling
>afterwards (NOONE should every have to go on counselling after they 
>run a
>feast)  dissapeared never to be heard from again.  What a lovely 
>Barony we
>have here!!
>  Whew...... Sorry about that I was just venting a little.  I'll step 
>off
>my soapbox start looking around for a rock to crawl under.
>
>-Sianan
>
>******************************************************************************
>Marina Denton
>sianan at geocities.com
>
>		How can you let sleeping dogs lie
>		if you let the cat out of the bag?
>
>					-Yes Prime Minister
>******************************************************************************

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