#after shift smoke

[descendantofthesparrow]

Nobodys home-by Avril Lavigne

based on @c-rose2081's pink lady diner au/fic/concept where Audrey, after the scepter incident, ups and leaves Auradon city/her role as princess and ends up in a no-questions-asked diner called the pink lady, gets a job, and picks up some bad habits.

#she is going THROUGH it #disney descendants #my art #art #audrey descendants #duck tape on teh shoe cuz #she doesnt have enough to buy new ones #after shift smoke #i gave her saftey shorts just cuz #perspective art #i had a sitting postiion af first like one leg was up and the other was culred under the other with her arm on the elbow #then it changed #and then it changed again #and ended up like this #:D #Youtube

[thatone-highlighter]

I love you albums. I love you songs connected by similar themes. I love you listening to songs in a specific order picked by the artist. I love you reoccurring motifs throughout the same album. I love you album covers. I love you albums with extended editions. I love you songs that reference each other.

#guys i fucking love listening to albums fr #best thing CDs have done for me is forcing me to listen to albums in order #this post is about. so many albums and artists #bad suns #imagine dragons #Set It Off #bastille #FUCKING HELL BASTILLE #theyre albums are SO GOOD #guys seriously. give me the future + dreams of the past. go listen to it. its so fucking good #doom days also fuckin slaps man. my fav oart is the fact the first 3 songs merge together for me until i realise million pieces is playing. #<- and ofc it has another place on it #also Imagine Dragons‘ Mercury 1+2 OUGH #the tone shift as you go through the double album until it does a full circle #sometimes a good album can be made up of songs that are banger after banger #<- All This Bad Blood-bastille Night Visions-ID smoke+mirrors-id apocalypse whenever-bad suns elsewhere-sio etc #and sometimes a good album can be made of songs that tell a progressive story while referencing eachother to enhance meaning and connect wit #-with the artists lived experinces #<- give me the future + dreams of the past-bastille mercury act I+II-ID Duality-sio #Tree Man Posts #music

[ilikebeanss]

Tom having a smoke break between swindling clients

#i like the hc that he smokes #its a muggle habit that he cant break #especially after a retail shift lmao #tmrhp #tom riddle

[weaselle]

being a line cook is insane but people do it anyway

do you want to know the secret to why line cooks stay line cooks?

We're addicted to a certain aspect of the job. A sort of combination of Pride and Power.

See, most of what is going on in that restaurant comes down to you. If the restaurant was a dairy, you'd be the cow, everything is based on what you produce; how much, how fast, and of what quality.

And it's INSANELY hard for most people to do. It requires you to keep mental track of tons of stuff while doing complicated physical creation in a dangerous environment under intense pressure

Any line cooks reading this? let me recreate a moment most of us have had many many times

For the rest of you this will be a nice window into the line cook experience

you have a rail FULL of tickets, and the printer will NOT stop printing more.

You've got a stove FULL of stuff you're cooking, and half of it is for stuff you don't even have a ticket for, because of something on a table that already went out was wrong or missing, or a server forgot to put something on a ticket and needs it in a hurry, or...

the tickets you are working on are for tables that finished their appetizers 45 minutes ago, and it could be an hour before you even get a chance to read whatever the printer is currently printing.

You have a head FULL of stuff you're tracking: how quickly the sauce is thickening in this pan, whether the garlic is about to burn in that pan, how long before you drain the pasta in that pot before it over cooks. As soon as the thing in the oven for table 31 is 5 minutes from done you gotta put the other thing on the flat top to go with it, you're putting together Something on your board and you can't finish it because you need a refill of an ingredient from the walk-in but you can't go get it because if you leave the kitchen you'll burn the thing in the salamander. And you can't plate the thing in salamander yet because the Something you're putting together on your board is taking up all the room you had left in this disaster of a kitchen

Three people have just told you complicated changes to dishes you have to organize and keep in your head. Something like

"24 needs 3 gnocchi not 4, and 2 with no rosemary; 3 needs all 4 gnocchi to have extra rosemary, 2 with no garnish; 22 needs an extra gnocchi extra garnish no rosemary, salads are almost out you can go in 3 or 4 minutes"

The manager, assistant manager, about 8 servers, and a fuckton of people at tables are all waiting on YOU with an impatience bordering on fury.

right? sound familiar? okay that's not the moment, that's just the dinner rush on a night somewhere between bad and average.

The moment happens when, during this insanity, you reach an internal place where you become completely overwhelmed. Panic and frustration and over stimulus all rise up and wipe your brain completely clean. You can't think, you have no idea what to do, you want to run away, you want to quit, you can barely think of your own name, everything feels completely impossible.

And then. The Moment

You pull it back together.

You stop being overwhelmed, you stop panicking, you insist that it IS possible, and that you are going to do it. You decide what has to happen and you start. You clear all the clutter you can from your kitchen. You pull all your tickets as far down the rail as possible and scan through the tickets on the printer so you have an idea of how things are going to go. You write down a couple of times on tickets that you would usually keep in your head but you need the brain space. You group the tickets according to not only time but what dishes they have in common so you can do batches of things. You decide if you can just get these two things out of your way you'll be in a much better position and so you concentrate on getting those two things cooked and plated. You beg the dishwasher to grab you the thing you need from the walk-in. You call your assistant manager or manager into the kitchen and you tell them you need them to start you 8 gnocchis: 3 no rosemary one extra garnish, 4 extra rosemary two no garnish, and one normal.

Right? Okay so first of all, as you can see... The job is INSANE

and second of all. Not everybody is capable of that Moment. The moment you stare already-existing catastrophic failure in the face and tell it No. That moment.

and you have to be capable of that moment if you want to be a line cook.

Which means pretty close to zero other people in that restaurant can do what you can do.

So now let me tell you a story.

I was 19 years old. I was a line cook at an italian joint. We're slammed off our ass one night, and the manager is in the little galley kitchen with me, and he's just standing there because he isn't good enough to not be in the way if he tries to help

and he's over my should about everything, telling me to drain that more or turn the heat down on this etc.

Finally, I stop completely, look him dead in the eye, and say "Tony, i'm not cooking another thing until you leave this kitchen."

I'm 19. Ive worked here six months. Tony is twice my age and married to the owner's daughter. There is a heavy pause.

Then Tony turns around and walks out of the kitchen.

What's he going to do, send me home? Zero other people in this restaurant can do the thing that makes it a restaurant. If i go home the customers are going home too.

And that's the real reason most line cooks stay line cooks even though the job feels like a war you never win.

It's that interplay of Pride and Power. For those few hours, the restaurant is happening because of you.

That's the power.

For the other part, try pulling a cook off the line during the rush. You can't. Even if they are in the weeds. Maybe even especially if they are in the weeds.

Once i was working with a cook who, in the middle of the dinner rush, sliced is hand open - a cut both deep and wide, pouring blood. No bandage we had was going to be a solution for it.

So he popped a latex glove on that hand, triple wrapped a rubber band around his wrist to keep the blood in, washed with soap, and went right back to cooking.

Because it was the dinner rush and no one else could do the job, and he wasn't coming off that line.

30 minutes in he had to swap gloves because it had filled with blood like a water balloon and was making it hard to cook. Leaving the line was never even a question.

that's the pride

#He went to the emergency room after his shift and came in to work two days later all stitched up and ready to kick more ass in the kitchen #same cook use to pop out back during a rush and power hit an american spirit #if you don't know american spirits are notoriously long lasting cigarets #and power hitting means smoking the whole cig in one long breath #that was my first restaurant job washing dishes there #wild experiences in restaurants absolutely wild

[honeyvenommusic]

❗️NEWGLASSANIMALSGLASSANIMALSGLASSANIMALSGLASSANIMALSGLASSANIMALSGLASSAN-

#glass animals #honestly i wore out dreamland sm my brain took a lonnng break from expecting anything from them?? idk i’m just huh???? #like….. when i say wore out #i cannot describe how much i listened to it #i usually have some vague idea even if it’s a ridiculous number #like 52 times in a month for an album or something (has happened) #i cannot recall w this #gonna say bc 2020 & they were Literally the last band i saw live. next morning everyone found out about everything annd lockdown. no joke #so it was big dreamland time when it dropped and revisiting their past albums when i broke out of its spell lmao #(pretty sure before that like january was when i listened to déjà vu 100+ times in a row tho so oop. it was a tough day lol) #anyway seeing this aww man. i really have had this band with me for a long long time. 🥹 i remember hearing gooey on the radio one night #driving home from work late @ night in 2014. the drive was so short i couldn’t be arsed to fish out my ipod & plug it in #sometimes so just popped on a good station i had preset. started the car and heard this *voice* and i was like who???? #had to check the station bc it was an alt station and i thought i had it on another one which was fine i was just v confused #it was in the middle of the song & i was immediately anxious to know the name hoping i’d hear it & it wouldn't just flow into the next song #then the dj would pile the names together after x number of songs played bc i was tiired (but woulda stayed in the car ngl). got lucky & #ran inside to find it then yelled at my roommate the next day that she HAD to listen to it during a smoke session after work #(i was right & it blew her miiind) #god. what a fucking time. what a fucking band. idk what the disc horse is surrounding them now since they blew up via tiktok #i’m sure people are v quick to say they’re overrated bc of that but idk & i’m glad i don’t know. they’ll always be this #highly inventive incredible band i stumbled upon for the perfect night drive home after a long long shift #a band that came back from a Horrible accident that should have ended 1 of their lives & somehow didn’t & should have ended them #as a band (like still cannot believe Joe was drumming in 2020 & i saw it with my own eyes like how tf???!?) #a band deserving of all of its successes. glass animals forever

[henswilsons]

love bank holiday weekends!! would love not to work one some day!

#sorry to return to tumblr after my brief sabbatical of social media blackout being crabby but man has this shift been rancid #imagine being sat outside in the sheltered smoking area while it is THUNDERSTORMING and still ordering drinks on the app so poor bar staff #have to brave the fucking hail to come bring you your drinks imagine being that considerate

[fiery-is-in-pain]

#drawing with fiery #cw smoking #drew him emo cause I felt emo after my shift at work #I dunno if I'll finish his rendering or not. depends on how I feel

[oflgtfol]

bracelets as a christmas gift for michaels coworker #1

#i havent made bracelets in forevar. yippie #the adjustable bracelet im sooo proud of #i got one of the wood burning tools but instead of using it to. burn wood. im just using it to melt the edges of the cording #instead of using a lighter which is sooo imprecise #this thing i can actually just press it down and melt it at the same time. so lovely #brot posts #one coworker down 3 more to go. total of 4 more bracelets #i wanna do 1 fancy stretch and 1 lower key adjustable bracelet per person #i just gotta ask to see what their fave colors are #i made a blue stretch one already i know at least one of them enjoys blue so i just dont know which one its going to #and then the other one. is a guy. and i dont think the sparkly stretch bracelet matches his style #so im just gonna do a lowkey all black adjustable bracelet for him #his is already designed i just gotta restring it 😑 #anyway i got melted leather cord smoke in my eyes and i need to be awake in like 5 hours for a 12 hour shift tomorrow #after which i’ll need to make these last four bracelets tomorrow night #so erm well i should sleep now. arugh

[cripplingoptimism]

Smoke break

#Valentine's day is coming up #who's he textin?? #outfit continuation from a previous post #shadow the hedgehog #shadow the ultimate lifeform #assuming he has regenerative powers #smoking isn't technically bad right? #But it would be like smoking a cig for the first time every time #which actually sounds awful #when you finally check your phone after it's been blowing up all shift #how the FUCK did I manage to forget his RINGS????? #embarassing

[hikeyzz]

ok literally so boring to come home after a holiday alone like i wanna talk shit about the weird things said while also unbuckling their belt and telling them how good they look all dressed up ughH

#god even a fuckbuddy roommate #there's something about family gatherings i always wanna talk shit and fuck after #i think its just bc they feel so performative i feel like i'm convincing everyone i'm Okay and Fine that talking shit and fucking after #is so relieving #it's like the first drink after a shift #or a smoke after you fck #idk i dont smoke cigs but i imagine based on my love of cannabis #anyways sorry before i ramble #hikey

[katya-goncharov]

i had such a hellish bus journey home from work today and i'm STILL drained from it

#basically the bus i usually take was cancelled because the bus service from my uni is shit and since hardly any buses come in the #evening i had to wait over half an hour for the next one after my late shift at work ended #and because it was a friday night the entire bus stop was crowded with rowdy drunk undergrad students #and then when the bus did come you could tell the bus driver was completely fed up with them because she deliberately waited like #ten minutes to set off until everyone quietened down. and then every time they got too rowdy she'd stop the bus again #and i was really paranoid because the journey was taking so long and it was like nearly midnight by this point and i didn't want to be #walking home through town so late because you get really dodgy people about and i knew i wouldn't feel safe! #and the drunk students were being SO loud and they kept screaming at the tops of their voices and blowing vape smoke pretty #much right into my hair and i was just feeling very impatient and overstimulated #and THEN to top it all off one of them vomited in the seat across from me and it smelt awful and i had to step over it just to get off #the bus. and i couldn't even get food on the way home because it was so late by the time the bus arrived that everywhere was closed #so yeah. not a fun evening and now i'm just tired and annoyed and the worst thing is i have to do a late shift AGAIN tomorrow

[blowflyfag]

Literally WWE put me on the writing team right now.

Ok. Wrestlemania tag match between Santos Escobar and Dominick Mysterio vs Rey Mysterio and Dragon Lee

Like I have a vision. I have so many ideas about this I have a whole storyline plotted out

#smackdown lb #I like literally have so many thoughts about this now #Eris smokes #I’m also like delrious after my shift always so #my legs hurttttt wlwayssss after work

[devilmass]

And if Aaron offered, was actually nice wow, to help Roddy with a church fundraiser and he was nice to meemaw and her book club— what then? Hmm? What then

it's simple. they elope for vegas and return back to the page property as room mate's where they live out the rest of their short lives fixing up the property. or they fuck raw in the confessional after mass. it depends on if aaron is in the front row or not.

#rodrick and aaron gettin a lil gay after the sun goes down is the pinnacle of southern queer's #it's giving roddy meeting aaron outside the bar after his shift just to have a smoke with him before he goes home #like why u hangin around the bar preacher u don't drink!!! #fuckedcowboy

[tony-andonuts]

God i love weed and Im so fucking thankful its legal where i live so i can get it cheap

#i could and did manage before it was legal butlike #i can justlike #go to the dispo and get cheap dabs without having to suck someone off everyday for a month to get that price #and then i can come home from work n do a dab and then suddenly the pain is dulled n i can eat n enjoy things <33 #it needs to become federally legal though. like #i get a healthcare workers discount at some dispos but at the same time my job would love to fire me if i had to get drug tested #and they dont hire people who have previously worked in dispensaries #which is so fucking dumb bc healthcare is the only job i can think of where they can legally tell you *during your shift* that #your 8 hour shift has become a 16 hour shift #if i couldnt smoke weed after my doubles i wouldnt be as good of a worker #and it also helps me cope with the death and systemic ableism i see constantly #yes i did take my post-work dab for anyone wondering #tony speaks #stony tony

[hellfireeddiemunson]

i should really just go to sleep but i don’t want toooooo i don’t want to wake up and go to work 😭😭😭😭😭

#i wish i could have a month off of work no consequences and i still got money for it i just wanna be able to do whatever i want and have #free time and i don’t want to have to work this kuchhhhh i’m sick of it and i’m SO TIRED IN THE MORNING it makes it absolute HELL to try to #get to work on time i’m late every single day and have been for MONTHS bc my schedule is exhausting for someone who can’t keep a consistent #and GOOD sleep schedule i just wanna stay up late sometimes and sleep early other times but i work the same time all of the time so i’m just #running off not enough sleep EVER and have to take naps if i even CAN and then that in turn fucks up the time i’ll sleep after that #like i literally CANNOT win here i don’t get what i’m supposed to do i don’t want to do it anymore dude #i wish at. LEAST i could go in like a half an hour later i genuinely think i wouldn’t be late everday but waking up between 6-7 is HARD and #the earlier i wake up the more time i need to try to be awake but the later i wake up the more i scramble and fight to try and get ready #fast enough like even THAT i can’t get down right !!!!!! i just want to be able to go to work on time and not have anxiety about it everyday #my boss clearly doesn’t care enough and that’s fine i should be relieved to know she just cares that i show up and do my shift but like i #just don’t know dude i’m just going on and on and i need to shut up #i’m going to smoke and go to bed soon i guess???? idk i’ll be on here til i do tho

[joyridingmp3]

2 people at the bottleo my beloveds. one said they hadn't seen me for a while and missed me and the other said I look really pretty and cool <3

#I'm like hey are you guys busy after your shift? #...you doing much? wanna smoke and drink and then...... #well. u know #too bad they work there otherwise I'd go for it but I'd hate to make them feel uncomfortable at work #it's all rainy I'm going to get chocolate &have soup and then probably be insane tonight sorry in advance #mine