Movie theater employee shuts down nepo-baby co-worker by leaving him with 2 full bus tubs of dirty dishes: ‘Dude never even made eye contact with me again’

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Elna McHilderson • Managing Editor
May 28, 2025 5:00 PM EDT

When it comes to the service industry, there are a lot of different working mechanisms that keep the establishment rolling. It's not just the cooks and the servers. There is also the host, busser, food runner, dishwashers, to-go station, manager, etc. You see? It takes an army to provide exceptional service to all those who deserve it and even those who don't—I'm looking at you, Karen! So, when you are working at a restaurant, it's important to respect every single role equally. Sure, Chef might act like he's the only one working there, but he really is nothing without his entire team: Front AND back of house. 

 

When you end up working in the service industry and you have even one incompetent co-worker, it messes everything up and then everyone is in a bad mood. Everyone has to do their job, and have to do it well! So when this co-worker at this restaurant/movie theater was slacking, his fellow dishwashers had it…

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  • His co-workers constantly had to remind him to double check before doing all of the last steps to their job. But since this guy was “buddy buddy" with management, he acted like he was above everyone else. Well, he pushed around the wrong dishie one time, and got his tush served right back to him. See below! 

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  • "'Shut it all down now!!!' Sure, no problem."

    So I worked at a resturant/movie theater as a dishwasher that was open really really late sometimes. Most nights that I closed I had to wait to turn off, drain and clean out the dish machine because it took a little for the busser to collect every dish from every theater. This guy was buddy buddy with management
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  • and treated me and other dishies as below him. More often then not I would be told "this should be the last of it" by someone bringing dishes late, but it was never true. I got in the habit of asking if they're sure or if should wait.
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  • Well this particular night he wasn't feeling very patient, and when I asked if that was really everything, he cut me off saying "shut it down NOW!" before quickly leaving the kitchen. It seemed too early in my opinion but hey, he seemed quite agitated and I wanted
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  • to go home. So I drained the machine and cleaned it out, then shut down the rest of the dish pit. By the time I was done and the manager was checking me out, I see him meekly bagging up 2 full bus tubs of dishes.
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  • Dude never even made eye contact with me again while I worked there.
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  • CoderJoe1 The Dishie is a God among men. What was he thinking? Neither-Brain-2599 Never mess with the dishwasher. I always slid food and drink that way. Makes everyone's life more better.
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  • tcollins317 When I was a teen, I worked at Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor (think Applebees with a ton of ice cream desserts). I was a dishwasher. We had a speedy system where we rinsed off the dishes, racked them, then sent them on a conveyor that took them through the dishwasher unaided. On Fri & Sat nights, it would get so buy that both of us would not catch up until 2 hours after the restaurant closed. We'd literally get a ton of dishes.
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  • One Sat, I didn't feel like showing up, but felt that wouldn't be cool to my coworker, so I went in. That's when the A mgr tells me that my coworker called in sick, and I would have to do it alone. Oh sh. And then he tells me that the dishwashing machine was broken and all the dishes had to washed by hand in the sink. I was thinking that I would still be washing dishes by sunrise, so I told my A mgr that I quit (already had a second job). I later hear that the A mgr had to do them himself.
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  • mgoose811 Dishes in a restaurant = IT in an office. You treat them well, give treats, help when you can, PERIOD. Without them, the location ceases to function.
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  • wykkedfaery33 Oh man, the bartenders at my job were the worst about last minute dishes. My solution? Anything brought back after the kitchen was shut down and cleaned got chucked straight into the TINY FOH three compartment sink meant for their glassware. Your problem now,
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