More Americans Concerned Illegal Immigrants Will Take Their Spot On Couch

At an early job I had as a Cook at a restaurant, a new young guy came on that was an immigrant and I was to train him to take my job.. he was a work in progress(a lot of work!).. it was not one of my desires to stay there unless I could Move up the ladder. I knew that took time at some places. I took Manny
In back and got him outfitted (jacket, trousers, hat, apron, took box[spatula, knives, steel, peeler, and a few other small tools]).. then I took him to the job books ( each prep job, the time expected to complete the job, the time the job completed(blank to be filled in when Job completed for person perform'g job. Info transferred to that person's sheet in Chef's notebook) to the coolers and freezer, each had a diagram where each item goes thawing items on bottom shelf with drip pans below.. no food on floor ! Even beverages(heavy cream, milk, etc. in cases are 1ft off the floor set on a empty crate. Box on wall for date/time labels, markers.. Fifo(first-in, first out) is the rule . Some items like standing rib roasts, Chef choice ribs hve few days to
Prime. Steaks, filets, ground meats go really fast, so turn around time is very short.. the line drawer coolers where
Items we are using that day go.. and where e'thing else on line is. I was consistently working with him so he can get s'thing without anybody telling him where it is and get it cooking.. it took a few weeeks but we got there..got him so he could do his job w/o s'one hanging over him e'y second.. I'm working and waiting for day I'm told my Svcs are no longer needed.. Mr. K. Came to me with that look on his face that s'thing was not going to be good news.. "Chef"(I was not expecting that title). I have bad news... (here it comes, or so I thought)..
Chef Gary has left us to run another of our Restaurants. He said if you need any info of certain things you can call and he'll assist you. We'll be here for you also. He assured us that he felt you were best choice for Chef D' Cuisine.. and we agreed. In actuality you've been doing many of his duties for the past two weeks as he's been at the other restaurant, so your pay increases by $1.50 per hr. or $15.00 more a day on top of the $80.00 day I earned as assistant Chef. It was a challenging job,
A challenge e'y day.. I had people consistently telling me to get a real job.
If they knew what I earned and what I did to earn it, what would they think?
Why is he earning so much to flip burgers? That's ludicrous! Some seem
To group cooking jobs into one group: cooking burgers. That's only a small
Part of the job.. I just fluffed it off..
this was back in '86. I had a recently graduated from Culinary /restaurant mgt. course . My youngest brother
Was going to school to be a computer tech. He was working and going to school but they weren't paying him the big pay because he didn't have that paper yet.. Mom didn't even know.. yet!
I usually put my pay stub in my lock box. My CHeck went in my account.. the mail
Came one day and my statement from the credit union was laying on top.. when the mail came, it wasn't, my other
Brother reshuffled it looking for his and mine was on top. Mom thought it was hers and opened it without looking at the name and pulled out the statement.
Mistakes happened but tha amount of
Deposit stood out and she remembered it. She chided the brother that was giving me heck about flipping burgers..
She let the cat out of the bag and told him what I made that latest deposit which was only 3 days before.. it didn't help the situation any.. he said it wasn't fair a burger flipper was getting $95 a day.. I walked off with my statement..
He flipped.. "Come back here, I'm not done yet!" He can't stand when s'body ignores him when he rants.. especially if
They're the subject of his rant.. he eventually chills.. I didn't need to rub it in, mom did that already... A few weeks later I biought a gift certificate at work
For $25, I got an envelope with their logo in the corner and addressed it to
My brother.. the postage was prepaid on it already. I put it with the outgoing mail.. he got it 3 days later.. I just kept my mouth shut.. I wanted to see the look on his face.. he picked up the envelope and opened it.. and pulled the certificate out.. the general manager put a note in saying they were celebrating my promotion to Chef D' Cuisine and would like to invite a member of Chef's
family to celebrate also.. he ate it up..
he thought he'd take his girl out for dinner.. I hoped that paved over some rough spots.. for a while !