'Felt so good': Nightshift cook for the U.S. Navy working solo gets exploited by dayshift cooks, maliciously complies and gets them called ‘stupid’ by the executive officer

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  • You want to give me more work? Alright, I'll make your day worse. A few years ago, I was deployed in the U.S. Navy. I was a cook. For those who don't know, usually cooks in the military are overworked (like most civilians cooks) and usually have to go through a lot of b.s when it comes to sanitary inspections.
  • It was only me cooking at the time in a night shift. I had a team of three (one cook and two attendants), and the day shift had over six cooks and nine attendants.
  • We had a big inspection coming up, and we were out to sea. We had to deep clean the whole galley. Now, here's the fun part. The day shift supervisors said that I needed to deep clean the ovens, grills and kettles (basically everything we use to cook) but what got me mad was that the night shift hardly ever touched any of that because our main focus was to cut prep for the next day. We had a big day the next day, so what they were asking was way too much, even if you didn't take any breaks. I ask
  • I purposely left all the deep cleaning for last instead of starting as soon as I came in. Me and my team cut what we needed to cut and took care of our own stuff, and I waited until almost the very end of breakfast to start cleaning. I took all the oven racks and put them in the big kettles to boil the black stuff out of it. And then I started cleaning the grill. With the grill being cleaned, the ovens with no oven racks and all the kettles being used, they had no chance of putting a meal on tim
  • When lunch was about to start, that's when I decided to finish my cleaning. There was no food at all to serve the customers, and my supervisors got mad at me. The executive officer of the ship came down to Galley to see what happened, and my supervisors told him that it was all my fault. He then asked me my side of the story. I told him what happened, and he asked them if it was true, and when they nodded, he called them "stupid" and cussed them out and dismissed me. Felt so good.
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  • CoderJoe1 You cooked up some gourmet revenge and served it up steaming hot!
  • DebateBeautiful8502 Love when karma is witnessed. Thank you for your service.
  • tetsu_no_usagi Yeah, that was crop of them. Former Army here, and if we have a big inspection coming up, it's for the whole section to take care of it, not just a small part of it. I can't count the number of times I helped out other sections prepare for their own inspections (one team, one fight, hooah!), and I wasn't a cook, but helped many of our mess sections wash dishes and scrub kitchens for sanitary inspections (I eat out of that chow hall, too). If I was senior
  • enlisted of your section, I would have cleaned the ovens, grills, and kettles on night shift, but it would be day shift (including me!) in there doing the cleaning while those items weren't being used and night shift got on with their prep work. Sadly, even in the Army, saw too many senior NCOs who got promoted under the "f ' move up" model of passing the trash.
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  • WeekSecret3391 I know a guy that was asked to "paint an office all in blue" as a punition. Well, he painted the walls, the roof, the floor, the windows, the funitures, the papers on the desk, e.ve.ry.thing in sight. He didn't got into trouble for this because he followed the instruction. (To be fair the guy was and deserved the punishment, but just a the rules are the rules)
  • momsspaghetti44 So you made the other people on your ship not be able to eat in the morning? noirthesable You're joking, right? It's pretty obvious he didn't have time to complete everything with the time allotted. If he didn't put off deep cleaning, he wouldn't have had enough time to do the food prep. Clearly the CO agreed given he chewed the supes out instead of OP.

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