[Sca-cooks] dealing with cooks neurosis

[chirhart_1]

Ash one persons perspective.Don't sweat it you and your reputation will be
intact.The kitchen staff Knows
the difference.   From Chirhart---( Worry Wort Of the Century)   P.S. Still
looking for supplies
----- Original Message -----
From: <jenne at fiedlerfamily.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 8:50 AM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] dealing with cooks neurosis


> Ok, how do YOU handle it when someone criticises the way you run your
> kitchen? I did a breakfast recently that was whipping right along--
> everything except the eggs had some food out 1/2 an hour before the
> breakfast was supposed to start, but unfortunately everyone got up early
> *grin*. Anyway, at one point there was a spill in the kitchen and I sent
> the spiller to ask the someone to get me a few more bodies temporarily.
> The someone told me later that she felt that when she came into the
> kitchen at that I had 'lost control of the kitchen.'
>
> Now, I've talked with other kitchen people and other cooks, and we suspect
> that this was a combination of kitchen inexperience, crowded kitchen, a
> problem with finding supplies that had haunted the event, and the someone
> being a little overwhelmed in general.
>
> But how do you know if it went well, if the kitchen was running well?
>
> -- Pani Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika   jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
> "What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't
> change can't learn." -- Terry Pratchett, _Lords and Ladies_