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Coasterphreak posted:Our produce supplier here in NC has cut to M/W/F, we'll see if Sysco shows up tomorrow lol Y'know, on reflection, maybe that was a dumb question, at least about Sysco. Do they distribute to all these supermarkets getting pounded, or just restaurant industry? I mean, it's not like supermarkets are carrying 1 gallon jugs of Sysco-branded heavy-duty mayonnaise or 5 gallon buckets of lard. Now US Foods, that's one of the minor suppliers to my man's store. They have a distro right here, one of two in VA. I've worked in a bunch of places where we've had the luxury of saying "whoops, we're almost outta chicken, gonna run up to US Foods, back in a minute!" I'll be curious to see if they come through tomorrow. Idk, I know jack-poo poo about how that sort of food distribution works. If anyone has more info, I'm curious! Hell, an A/T on the subject would probably be wildly popular right now. fake edit: and duh, me, did you think to apply there? 99% of the jobs open are drivers, no shock there, but they do have a position I'm qualified for (recoup; basically looking at stuff that gets sent back and determining whether it's safe to re-box and put on the shelves because it was a mis-pick, or "oh hell no that's nasty" and tosses it).
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Do it do it do it. We're still getting regularly supplied. But again, hospital. We're kinda essential.
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work at a grocery store, we've had 2 perishable trucks be delayed with no time table given for their arrival. currently we have 3 skids of product missing from our last dairy order, they must be wildly roaming out there somewhere in the US of A. it was probably intercepted by a horde of frenzied shoppers seeking butter and eggs. RIP to the driver who was surely beaten to death, the unfortunate recipient of their anger
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Manuel Calavera posted:Do it do it do it. Application sent! And funny enough, I was thinking about you yesterday while hanging out with my roommate's bro, who suggested the company that handles food service for the local hospitals "because they still need cooks, right?" We have two major hospitals, plus all the retirement homes scattered about. My question: Um, do those kinds of places piss test? I don't smoke a ton of weed (hell, I can't afford it anymore), but I might pop positive. This is VA, where we still don't have MMJ, let alone Colorado-type "woo, weed for all!" laws. Just so glad my husband is in the grocery store biz, which still falls under the umbrella of "essential personnel". Based on that, I also sent out apps to every Kroger in a 15 mile radius. Surely they need some grunts to offload the trucks --- oh, wait, the non-existent trucks. 
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Mar 18, 2020 20:12
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Welp just talked with the executive chef whole hotel will be dark until beginning of June. I'm already set up with unemployment so I should be ok.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:Application sent! apply to be one of their personal shopper and you'll probably get in fast. every grocery store in the country is drowning under the weight of 100% increased online shopping orders and are desperate for warm bodies
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Mar 18, 2020 21:41
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Thumposaurus posted:Welp just talked with the executive chef whole hotel will be dark until beginning of June. I'm in NC and the unemployment site is getting hammered so bad I can't even finish my application.
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Mar 18, 2020 21:57
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Hell I'm considering going to work at my local Safeway, not because I need a job but because they obviously badly need people to help stock.
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Aye Doc posted:apply to be one of their personal shopper and you'll probably get in fast. every grocery store in the country is drowning under the weight of 100% increased online shopping orders and are desperate for warm bodies yeah not too warm tho
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pile of brown posted:My work is closed, I'm trying to convince chef to let me meal prep perishable inventory for our staff rather than trash it I spent today making grilled courgette antipasti, pickled fennel and cauliflower, guac and freezing it, etc. to try and save our fresh produce before we inevitably get closed.
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Mar 18, 2020 23:28
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I've never been happier to be a short-order cook at a truck stop, we're hopefully going to be considered essential services and won't be forced to close even if Texas shuts down. I've still got 40 hours this week, but we're cutting things like the 16hr/week dishwasher and the salad bar in its entirety, and we're down to one server at a time. We've still got a steady trickle of business but it's mostly truckers, we haven't had the families and random old people we usually get.
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Mar 18, 2020 23:31
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greazeball posted:yeah not too warm tho thats what the liquor is for
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Mar 18, 2020 23:47
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:treasury secretary floated 20% unemployment figure in an interview. if that's sustained it's matched only by the great depression. our one hope is that trump is more competent than herbert hoover... Now there's a question to make me want to drink myself to death.
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Aye Doc posted:apply to be one of their personal shopper and you'll probably get in fast. every grocery store in the country is drowning under the weight of 100% increased online shopping orders and are desperate for warm bodies Kroger had none of those positions listed online?  Whole bunch of "overnight stock" positions though, unsurprisingly, and I'm no stranger to being a nocturnal creature. It would actually work out well since while me and Mr. JD both have cars, only one is reliable and gas-efficient, so we could switch off on the Cavalier*. *(which, while I'm currently drunk-posting (yeah, I'll eat a probe for saying that if needed, LC) is still up and running after the industry goons here helped me out with that 2 years ago. That poo poo still makes me sniffle, y'all are the best) JacquelineDempsey fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Mar 18, 2020 |
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Mar 18, 2020 23:54
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The Bandit posted:Mandatory closure in SLC Utah. But don’t worry we’ll be open until we legally can’t be at 11pm tonight...
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Very fortunate: Takeout/delivery business so far is about 65% as good as our normal dine in, which should be enough to keep the lights on and people paid. Not fortunate: One of my two prep cooks quit(!), and the other got her car totaled the same week "some bad family poo poo went down" and won't be in for the near future. My adjusted 6 hour days look like they'll be 10-12 to keep up by myself. If business stays okay through next week and the other cook stays out, then we'll think about hiring someone...
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Mar 19, 2020 01:09
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Oh hey my casino closed too. Neat.
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Mithross posted:Oh hey my casino closed too. Neat. Probably for the best in terms of society at large, but losing a paying gig sucks.
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JacquelineDempsey posted:My question: Um, do those kinds of places piss test? I don't smoke a ton of weed (hell, I can't afford it anymore), but I might pop positive. This is VA, where we still don't have MMJ, let alone Colorado-type "woo, weed for all!" laws. Aww  I completely forget if they did when I started. They did give me a background check. And woo the worst they found was a speeding ticket. Sorry I can't give you a better answer than that though, friend. Proud of you though! Get that work, yeah! TheKennedys posted:I've never been happier to be a short-order cook at a truck stop, we're hopefully going to be considered essential services and won't be forced to close even if Texas shuts down. I've still got 40 hours this week, but we're cutting things like the 16hr/week dishwasher and the salad bar in its entirety, and we're down to one server at a time. We've still got a steady trickle of business but it's mostly truckers, we haven't had the families and random old people we usually get. Salad bar? Truckers?  Our salad bar is closed, the self serve stuff as well. Don't want anyone that isn't an employee touching food, basically. Mercedes Colomar fucked around with this message at 01:54 on Mar 19, 2020 |
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Mar 19, 2020 01:51
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Guy in line behind me at the store had an enormous bottle of vodka and a sixer of blood orange san pellegrino. Always good to see other industry people taking care of themselves in this time of crisis.
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Mar 19, 2020 01:52
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If this poo poo kills Islay whisky, then I'll really be in a bad mood.
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Skwirl posted:Probably for the best in terms of society at large, but losing a paying gig sucks. It is, but it also came two days after the notice that we were not closing, only reducing hours. And then they didn’t actually tell us what is going to happen to us employees during the shutdown. That happens tomorrow.
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Our most frequent delivery location is the nearby hospital and they called today and told us that our drivers are no longer allowed to enter the building with deliveries. I fully expect to be out of a job by the end of next week.
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Coasterphreak posted:Our most frequent delivery location is the nearby hospital and they called today and told us that our drivers are no longer allowed to enter the building with deliveries. Someone can just pick them up outside, right? Maybe designate a drop-off point.
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Animal-Mother posted:If this poo poo kills Islay whisky, then I'll really be in a bad mood. Surely a sparsely-populated island is a fairly safe place to be right now
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Republicans posted:Someone can just pick them up outside, right? Maybe designate a drop-off point. Yes except that most of our customers are the doctors and nurses and most of them have to undergo rigorous sanitation procedures if they exit the building on their lunch break. The restriction is literally designed to discourage people from ordering delivery and just bring their lunch from home.
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Manuel Calavera posted:
I think I mentioned before once but yeah, we're the sit-down restaurant in one of those bigass truck stops with multiple fast food joints and poo poo. And it's basically that one, if you don't work here, get your grubby paws off the produce.
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The UK government is planning to lock down the entire capital city while simultaneously refusing to order that restaurants and bars close so they don't have to help anyone. It's like a race between whether the US or the UK have the dumber bunch of assholes in charge.
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Catfishenfuego posted:The UK government is planning to lock down the entire capital city while simultaneously refusing to order that restaurants and bars close so they don't have to help anyone. It's like a race between whether the US or the UK have the dumber bunch of assholes in charge. Please check your info before spreading stuff like this. There are no such plans.
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Martin posted:Please check your info before spreading stuff like this. There are no such plans. Right? Lol if you think the UK has any plans whatsoever.
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Right? Lol if you think the UK has any plans whatsoever. I’ve been stuck in England for about a week now due to some issues with flights and whatnot. My family is spread all around (Sweden, England, Australia, Canada, Malta). So I’ve been following the news and info from governments like a crazy person. To me it seems like the UK are among the few countries doing the sensible thing by listening to their chief medical expert and virologists, not reacting to whatever the public wants them to do. There’s press conferences with the PM and representatives from NHS daily talking about their plans, why they have those plans, calmly laying out info to the public. To me it really seems like they have a solid plan to combat this as well as they can under the circumstances. Also, regarding the lockdown https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-zero-prospect-of-restrictions-on-travel-in-and-out-of-london-downing-street-11960212
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Martin posted:Please check your info before spreading stuff like this. There are no such plans. A few days ago they claimed there were zero plans to close schools as well, they've been caught lying a half dozen times, they're doing the opposite of what's smart and every single loving epidemiologist who doesn't work directly for them started yelling at them the second they announced their plans. Boris Johnson literally got loving blasted by his own peers for joking in the middle of meetings about the loving pandemic. Catfishenfuego fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Mar 19, 2020 |
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Mar 19, 2020 18:47
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Catfishenfuego posted:I did, would you like the telegraph, cnn, or the guardian you tory oval office? loving 
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Martin posted:I’ve been stuck in England for about a week now due to some issues with flights and whatnot. My family is spread all around (Sweden, England, Australia, Canada, Malta). So I’ve been following the news and info from governments like a crazy person. Yikes
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Reminder that the Chief Medical expert on this, who initially backed a plan that implied he had no idea how herd immunity works and would kill hundreds of thousands of people, thinks a death toll around six times that of China or Italy would be a good outcome. https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/uks-chief-scientific-adviser-says-20000-coronavirus-deaths-would-be-good-outcome
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My friend just let her visa run out and fled back to Japan because of all of this.
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I'm being told by the owners (not management) that in MA that some signed order has cut the ban from April 17th to April 6th, 'unless further extended'. Which seems dangerous to me, unless I've missed some important news? They're even talking about bringing employees in a few days early to prep, which seems really fuckin' dangerous! I don't know what the hell.
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It'll get extended since distributors are somewhat shut down too. I know I have to go in a couple days next week to do end of month stuff like inventory. I'll be the only one in the building for the duration at least.
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I'd hope it at least keeps to the original 17th date. Dropping that date by 11+ days is startling, after all the time spent planning out the whole next month. The whiplash is stressful.
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