The Train of Thought

Sometimes, at work, I wonder if I am the only person with basic common sense. I really can't tell sometimes weather it is abject stupidity or just plain laziness, or perhaps some kind of beautiful combination of both. A few weeks ago I came in only to hear the cook who was on the line tell me that we are out of bacon. Not out really, but all of it is frozen solid in the freezer. No one bothered to take any out of the freezer into the walk-in. Because we don't use bacon for fucking everything right? And I understand that I am one of the people working there as well and have some responsibility for that but I have a lot to do as well. They write down items on the prep list but it is all things we don't need or are already done. Sometimes they make things in the morning, dishes, maybe specials and don't even tell us what it is for. These things frustrate me intensely, and sometimes I express myself quite vocally. I really don't want to get as mad as a sometimes do but

Long day at work today. The first couple hours I was busy prepping and I noticed that the tickets seemed to keep coming. They weren't necessarily piling up but they were consistent. Mostly single orders but they kept coming, a steady barrage. As I was working on prep I was trying to fill some things I see on the steam table and on the line. But it's not always easy to keep track of everything. After I was finished chopping potatoes and cleaning out the back, taking the trash out I told my co-worker I was going to clean up take a quick break and come back on the line as he was set to leave at 6:30. I knew most of the stuff in the fridge was full, and the bain marie, but as I came on the line I saw that there was several things on the steamtable that were almost gone. My co-worker got most of them and as soon as he left the big tickets started coming in the 3, 4 person orders. I was feeling annoyed because I had to heat up so much stuff. I've been trying to stay calm on the l