‘What do you mean I’m doing service on my own? I enquired.
Larder, grill, sauces, pans, Desserts. 1 chef. Five sections. You f$%king arseholes.
That’s not what you sold me when I signed on for this shit.
‘Come on’, ‘your shit’, ‘hurry the f#$k up’, ‘the steaks under’, ‘your pans burning’, how long on Desserts, it’s been 20 minutes’
Well f$#k your shit matey. I am a master chef! Not some lost Muppet with a drug problem who looks like he’s slept on a Park bench. Born from your insistence that I perform 700 tasks on my own. Under pressure. Being told I’m shit if I don’t meet your fortuitous expectations.
You can call me James, not Jack!
If you want to be cheap, then be cheap, but please don’t drag me up the garden path with your Jack of all trades bullshit!
Being tasked with excessive output expectations at a high standard has never been a strong point of mine.
I need to be with a crew to do my thing.
We call that a brigade system.
Larder working salads, fryers and miscellaneous little things.
Grill working meats and sauces. Sometimes a grill dowg, and a saucier.
Someone working the pass, conductor if you like. Just calling dockets, plating up food, someone who controls what the symphony of cooks are banging out.
The founding father of this system, Escoffier, started the brigade system in the 1920s and is the back bone of pretty well all great kitchens in Western society.
So how about you and your trade, habbit, job or hobby?
Are you a master of something, or are you just a jack of lots of different things done averagely?
I prefer to be a master of something, as opposed to being average at many menial tasks.
And the data indicates I’m not the only one…
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First up here from the team at …
1) The age-old comparative of multi-tasking versus ‘one job at a time’ study ethic has been put to the test in nearly every possible manor.
Countless frustrated teachers have teamed up to test the argument of what is more efficient. Multi tasking or single focus learning. Extensively in-depth studies have been carried out then forecasted what our teachers have been trying to tell us for years. If we pay attention, we will learn what they are trying to teach.
Not only does one struggle to learn more when rolling through Facebook or sending their girlfriend a message. This behavior can also lead to higher levels of degenerative behavior.
Students appear to be constantly distracted by all forms of technologies. It is widely perceived that technology was to be the tool required to take humanity to the next level of evolution, yet for students it has become an added distraction.
Teachers are even resorting to disabling wi-fi connections in order to gain students attention during lectures.
On average, one’s ability to absorb information is reduced by around 25% on average while multi tasking.
Those that multitask during presentations of lectures have a decline in overall scores and results in academic modules. The research carried out by Sana, Westen and Capeda would appear to be very over the top and ridiculously in depth, yet the trend is there.
Maybe such habits of not multi-tasking need to start there. Trends predict that in the near future humans will own on average at least five smart devices. Setting strict rules for those studying need to be put into place, so our next generation can focus on what they need to. Humans as a species must learn to take advantage of our inventions without the negative impacts of unneeded distractions.
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2) Research suggests that multitasking can negatively affect both information retention and interest in a topic. When people attempt to perform two attention-demanding tasks at the same time—such as watching an educational video while chatting online—the brain must constantly switch focus between activities. This reduces the amount of information that is processed and remembered.
A study involving more than 500 university students found that concurrent multitasking (doing multiple tasks simultaneously) reduced both content retention and topic interest, while sequential multitasking (switching between tasks at longer intervals) had less impact on learning outcomes
So, in practical terms, multitasking can:
Reduce memory retention and comprehension.
Increase mental effort and cognitive load.
Lower engagement and interest in learning materials.
Increase the likelihood of mistakes and distractions.
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When I write my articles for academic purposes (I’m enrolled in a bachelor of business) I’ll typically think of what I believe to be a solid platform for my argument; then research and build from there.
These arguments are always built upon layered information that aims to be feed from many angles, then grounded in reality.
And what I ma pointing out here is we only have 100% to give at any point in anything. Be it one thing or 10 things.
If I’m being 90% chef, and 10% dish pig, then I’m gonna say I’m performing at an optimum chef standard, but still only 90% chef and 10% pig.
You give me a 12 item menu and a crew or brigade, and the suitable resources, then I can provide you with optimum standard food.
But if I’m being a chef working all 3 standard sections on my own where my focus is spread out into areas that commonly have others performing them. Them I ain’t going to perform at the level I know I’m capable of. And paid to too.
Or let’s even break it down into percentages.
A 12 item menu, and let’s say the median menu item has 4 components, that’s 48 tasks I would be required to perform in quick time if I was on my own.
Some people, or chefs if you like thrive on it, they love it, and I respect it.
But that ain’t me.
If you’ve got a ten dollar head, you’ll get a $10 hat is a story I wrote a few years back that was leaning towards here the you check out if you like here.
Small places typically dont have the funds to provide me with what I need to do what I do, or have been trained to do.
I am a master cook, and the more Im dragged into other things that dont involve cooking at work, then the less value you get for your money.
And i dont like that.
So how about you. Are you a master at what you do? Or are you a Jack of all trades.
The world is full of ‘I’m a chef’ type of people that never cook but think they know how to run a kitchen.
But there is also many great cooks that can cook, can manage a kitchen and stick to what they actually know, and don’t get dragged up the garden path of trying to do everything.
Im one of those. A master cook.
I dabble in a bit of other stuff in my spare time, but my employer only pays me to cook.
#Pickle pro-tip: If your boss wants you to do high quality extra work that isn’t in your job role and your worried it will affect your ability to perform your job. Then get an ABN, and sell it to them that way and do it in your spare time and RDOs.
References
1)Multitasking, Productivity, and Brain Health https://share.google/LaJPPAvz9hDsTUMmQ
2) Effects of multitasking on retention and topic interest – ScienceDirect https://share.google/wsOF9RQS54PxP5Mvj
