Escoffier absolute mania on Nostr: This kind of thing can only flourish in environments that have very little contact ...
This kind of thing can only flourish in environments that have very little contact with reality. When I was in OKC I got hired on as a cook at a small rehab hospital. I had already had a few chef postings but sometimes a brutha just needs ta eat ya know?
So i came into this utterly dysfunctional kitchen. It wasnt passing health inspections. Had 14 employees where when took it over i had six. The numbers were bad. The patients hated the food, etc etc.
And whaddaya know the chef was a double dip diversity hire. A Nigerian. I had been working in kitchens for over 25 years at that point and just took it over and got things working right.
We were a contract service and our parent company was in Texas. My bosses boss would visit the far flung empire about three times a year. After I got everything cleaned up they asked for my actual resume and I had a sit down with my bosses boss who was also a black man who explained with some disgust in his voice that my boss was a useless diversity hire who was going to get kicked upstairs because he had failed his way into a promotion.
One of the more surreal conversations of my life.
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