[Sca-cooks] Volunteering in a feast kitchen

Adele de Maisieres ladyadele at paradise.net.nz
Tue Apr 3 20:12:23 PDT 2007


Vitaliano Vincenzi wrote:

>No, I did not know the Feast Steward personally, but in several email 
>before the event I was invited to work in the kitchen, so I went in and 
>introduced myself. It isn't the fact that they didn't want/need my help, 
>it's the fact that they simply ignored me. If there had been a guard at 
>the door that said "We don't need your help", or "get the hell out of 
>the kitchen", I wouldn't be so upset. But they said nothing, just 
>completely ignored the fact that I was there.
>  
>

You do realise how hard it is to lose track of kitchenhands in a busy 
kitchen, right?  And you realise that in all likelihood, only the head 
cook is assigning people things to do?  I'm _not_ saying that this is a 
nice way to treat a volunteer-- just pointing out that the head cook is 
not always monitoring everything, so if you didn't ask for something to 
do, you probably got mislaid more than ignored. 

-- 
Adele de Maisieres

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