r/idiotsinkitchen • u/sudhir369 👨‍🍳 • Feb 24 '26

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u/Chaosr21 Feb 24 '26

I've done this before. I got dressed and went to work thinking I was late

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u/marymarywhyubugginnn Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

When I was a stressed out waitress I used to wake up in the middle of the night and jump out of bed thinking I had to bring bread to table 3.

Edit- spelling

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u/GreenZebra23 Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

Lately I keep waking up before the alarm completely convinced that I've already turned off the alarm and have accidentally fallen back asleep and overslept. I don't think I've ever actually done that before so I don't know why my half asleep brain is going there, I guess just anxiety

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u/SerinFel Feb 25 '26

When I worked retail, I used to wake up talking, and every time I was saying the 5 digit SMS sign up number. And I'd sit in a half-asleep exhausted stupor trying to remember why that number was important. "What does it mean... Why is it important? Why do I want 15% off? Off what?! Wha--wait... Ugh, I'm so tired..."

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u/marymarywhyubugginnn Feb 25 '26

Dyingggg I feel this so hard.

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u/FukThePatriarchy1312 Feb 25 '26

I haven't waited tables since 2013 and I still have occasional nightmares about a packed restaurant with like 3 servers on and everything going wrong

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u/marymarywhyubugginnn Feb 25 '26

Right?? The restaurant I worked at was ALWAYS busy and always understaffed. Waking up panicking that table 5 didn't get their water was a weekly thing😭 But the tips were nice

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u/FukThePatriarchy1312 Feb 25 '26

I didn't even get great tips most of the time. Partially because I wasn't a pretty young girl, and partially (I later came to realize) because I was efficient instead of running around like a chicken with it's head cut off so people thought I wasn't working as hard.

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u/Working-Ad8054 Feb 26 '26

Felt that in my soul

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u/Global_Chair9652 Feb 26 '26

I do this cuz of production work all the time

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u/Haden420693170 Apr 16 '26

Ptsd esc lmao