As I have chosen to have no job this summer I go to a bar in Pudsey most days to read.
Business isn't great and my friend (a chef) has just been laid off. He's pretty low (as you would be!).
So, what words of encouragement and advice would you give? I couldn't really think of any bar get onto the job supplement in the paper (lame).
Tell him hes a pathfinder....
the first of many....a trendsetter....a canary....a trailblazer
pay for a bit of dutch courage...
when you're both bevied up things might come easier. It is hard to get a job at the minute. I was laid off mid-May, normally find something within two weeks, but now now, very few jobs about.
Umm
It's summer, lots of people will be going on holiday, coming back happy and decide they hate their jobs and will throw the towel in...?
I don't know. Slightly difficult times to say 'the market is really great'.
Being a chef sounds like bloody hard work to me. Maybe he needs to go down a step or two (assuming he's a pro) to get work for the short-term.
I've always been told that chefs can walk into work easy enough
but he was talking about getting out of that area anyway.
Well
this comment is based entirely on the fact that I've just read Gordon Ramsay's biography: the staff turnover seems fucking high. That's because head chefs are demanding wankers, and a lot of people just can't take the pressure and abuse.
Maybe he just needs to think sideways - rather than restaurants, look at schools /universities / workplace canteens. It must take 100 people to run my work canteen. Not all of them are reliable.
Gordon Ramsey's autobiography's hilarious
especially the bit where he starts raving about Billy Elliot.
and the bit where he's working at the restaurant and goes to deliver a salad to one of the owners and she's like "sex me pls"
funny stuff
Tis indeed very entertaining.
I have no idea
except just be supportive and that. Be there if he needs a hand and that... I suppose.
I just pretty much text him that.
Good.
I thought it was such a piece of shit reply too.
It's not easy to think of things to say...