The Job

Well, since I've started working in Crew Mess galley, I've made, pastrami sandwiches, chicken fricasee, red snapper, french fries, cod, pasta, pasta, pasta, diced bacon, and chives, for approximately, 250 people. The crew buffet is ENORMOUS and I get a tiny portion of it to prepare. Yes, I love it! I'm learning so much! Mostly how to use new equipment and kitchen strategies/dynamics.

There were 6 of us who started new on the ship, as a result EVERYONE's hours were cut. NOBODY is happy about that. The tension in the galley is palatable. I understand their grumblings. You are paid minimum wage, and the OT is what makes it manageable. 6 newbies snatching your crumbs makes for a tense situation.

Two dudes who've been training me are helpful, one's English I can't understand, he asked me to make "morning sauce" I told him I don't know what a morning sauce was. He then rattled off the ingredients, I quickly understood it to be a bechamel with cheese, he's call it a mornay sauce. But if my memory is correct, mornay sauce really has a tomato product added. So, you see my dilemma. This coupled with the other trainer who keeps calling me "sweetie", "momma", "baby", and "honey", each time I tell him, my name is Lisa. FINALLY he got it yesterday, when I said, you know that little pile of money you're saving? It could be wiped out with a sexual harassment case. He blanched and immediately started using my proper name. Idiot!