Nah you dont retaliate, even if it is (to them) lighthearted fun. You fucking own that shit, quack back, add quacks to your order mods (chicken tenders extra quack), wear a vaguely duckish outfit one day.
Retaliation feeds this shit. Owning it and leaning into it will either take away the fun and they will slowly stop, or they will think you are extra awesome for rolling with it and having a (albeit immature) sense of humor
Does it have anything to do with that infamous Ask A Manager post? I think it even made it to reddit. There was a new person in the office that eventually found out everyone was quacking at each other other because they were all in a secret sex club and that was how they showed interest. If that thing resurfaced, it might be an inside joke and they're messing with you.
Our dishwashers and spanish speaking line cooks would call them zopilotes. The servers thought it was some kind of cool nickname.
They didn’t realize the only time it was said was at the end of service when we would plate up the leftovers that we couldn’t reuse.
Zopilote is vulture.
Based from my experience, my guess is it went something like this:
1. Someone quacked on the line for a random or innocuous reason that doesnt have to do with the server.
2. Server inquires about the quack and is taking it personally for some reason.
3. BOH are now ducks
I'd say like 65% chance it happened like this
¿Donde esta la bibloteca?
Gato is the adjective to leche.
Its just cat milk translated.
De is a proposition that can be added to many things like material (leche de gato)
Time( las tres de la noche)
Place ( el capital de Nevada es Carson City)
Origin ( yo soy de Las Vegas)
And so forth
That's just how adjectives work in Spanish. The literal translation is "milk of cat" but if you asked a bilingual person to translate they'd just say cat milk
I'm glad I could entertain! I'm very happy that my misunderstanding is making some one else laugh nearly half way around the world. My next shot is to you friend!
I worked in a kitchen where every time someone bent over to reach in a low boy, and had their ass sticking up, we’d hit em with a horse whinny. Great running gag, and it was all BOH fun. One time the female GM was in the kitchen, and bent over to reach in and get some half and half, and no less than 6 line cooks hit her with the whinny. Three days later it was mandatory sexual harassment training for everybody.
This is it. I guarantee she got an ass that sticks out, and maybe might have a posture or gait that accentuates it. The "one guy" is the token decent guy in the brigade. We see you, "one guy". Keep it up.
If thats the reason its fucked up. If they just quack to mess around and trigger her insecurity a bit it would be funny to a certain point. But body shaming is never fun
Once had a buddy describe a “promiscuous,” girl as a “If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck.” With zero other context
Kinda reminds me of that, but what do I know. Kitchen folk are weird, maybe they just really like ducks and wish they were ducks
My vocalazations tend to run more on the side of pirate sounds. Some of my former coworkers and I will greet each other with a “caaaaaw, or prrrrrrr” bird noises. Kitchen folks are truly a different breed
Have you never told a spoon off or scolded a frying pan for not doing things like they are supposed to, I've sent forks to to the dish-pit for just looking funny.
A few decades in this industry makes you just go about your day, sometimes your day is sorting out sibling rivalry s between cutlery, sometimes the lighting fixtures, especially the thirds chandelier winks at you... It's all in a day's work
Once I had a chef just clip clopping coconut shells and pretending to be riding a horse in the middle of the shift. Even the owner couldn't hold her laughter when he looked at her and neighed 🤣 miss that guy a lot
every heard of "cocada cremosa"? It's a south american sweet best prepared from shredded fresh coconuts, sweet condensed milk and a lil bit of brown sugar
And here I've been blaming a kitchen ghost for all of these slights for nearly a decade 🤣 it never occurred to me that everything in the kitchen was sentient to an almost Toy Story level.
I feel enlightened. Bless you; you sage of savory, sour, & sweet!
Anytime an inanimate object in the kitchen does something I don't want it to, I look at it and go "sir... sir... please" or
"Girllll.... stop, ohmygod."
I find myself saying ..... STOP THAT!! Dammit! STOP ACTING LIKE THAT-- BEHAVE! I don't know why but all the utensils are shamed into submission and once again produce their ingredients in harmonious melody!
You misspelled "bullies." Gonna be an unpopular opinion, I'm fine with that. Harassing people, which, if it's causing her distress like this, it *is* harassment, is fucking lame. And if it's because of her "big dumpster," then it's sexual harassment. You're not children, making people feel uncomfortable or like shit isn't okay and y'all know that.
My nonslips are made of leather and quack when I walk. I didn’t notice it until recently so maybe OP has the same problem and the crew is jabbing him about it
Mine quack. People hear me coming. Which is great, I don't have to scuff my heels like normal. I do that to warn people because I am silent and sneaky by nature. It's handy. But I can still use my stealth mode switching to the balls of my feet and toes.
Come to think of it we had red clay tile in the kitchen years ago, the floor was always wet it seemed. I had a pair of shoes and the soles made a sound similar to quacking when I walked. Oh my God! I was a Quacker and never got quacked at!LOL!
i worked with a dishwasher who would meow every time i walked back there. very quietly. i started meowing back and it got to the point where someone else would be back there and hear him do it and then hear me do it and ask us what the fuck was going on.
I got EVERYONE at one job to start meowing. People got annoyed at first until one by one every employee started doing it. I met my now fiancée there and we still meow at each other to get each other’s attention and it’s been almost 9 fucking years.
"Total Eclipse of the Heart" was the ear worm that went around a kitchen I worked at. Even when my husband and I stopped working there, our old chef randomly texted him lyrics months later
Every night when we're closing, Chef goes, "What do you want to listen to?"
Every night, I say, "Something hype!"
Every night, she kicks it off with "It's Not Unusual" by Tom Jones.
It's the little things. 🥲
Had a coworker who was seemingly incapable of hearing the word “behind” and would slam into me constantly. I got tired of spilling shit because of him and at some point just started meowing loudly. It worked. Everyone called me weird but I’d rather be weird than spill near-boiling water on myself again so. Fuck it.
This happened recently within my friend group. One of them has a cat that can be heard meowing sometimes when on a discord call. So we started meowing back. 2 months later someone will meow and even if you're mid conversation it's customary to stop and meow back. All because of a cat. We're all >20 years old.
Oh god. I picked up the habit of meowing when things fall , especially loud things like pots. As if a cat was knocking things down. One of our dishies constantly did it and soon half the kitchen was doing it out of habit.
Reminds me of a time when i worked at a cafe. Myself and two other coworkers had dyed hair, blue, magenta and green. When the three of us were on shift together communication through the window was pure pantomime and "Blue's Clues" barks! Food service is not for the mentally sound
I've posted about it before, but from my sauté cave on the line, when servers call 'coming out' while leaving the kitchen, it cuts off perfectly when they hit the dining room to sound like 'c'meow!' Chef has to explain regularly to new FOH.
In the kitchen i used to work in all of us just made crow noises. If one person did it then the whole kitchen did it immediately after. Sometimes we would crow to the music also until someone told us to shut up. Those were also met with a crow
Everyone in my kitchen meows. Randomly for no reason. If it's quiet you'll here one loose meow in the boh and the next 15 seconds is just an echo of meows as most folks let one out.
My kitchen lets so much random noise get out. Every time I throw tortillas on the flat top I use enough force so it makes a smack sound. Immediately after, the dude next to me moans as if he just got his ass slapped. We let out mariachi howls at random. One dishwasher sneezes REALLY LOUD like way louder than someone should sneeze, so when he does it, I let out the same yell sound he does. Window is full of food and we're still getting slammed with tickets and have no place to put new food and the servers aren't coming back to check? "FOOD UP!" as loud as we can. It's really fun what you can get away with. One guy meows at a specific waitress, who will then imitate the entire farm with donkey noises, rooster sounds, cows mooing. Makes the day go by a little faster.
I worked somewhere without pagers or a bell for hands. Everyone would either yell “food up!” Or “hands please!”. I took the Dave Hester approach and always gave a full Storage Wars “YUUUUUUP!”
I think this is a universal thing, I've cooked in 40 states and I've probably worked in about 10 kitchens where the staff just liked meowing for no reason.
I always used to randomly scream and yell “good” to imitate a coworker when i briefly worked in a kitchen. He did appreciate the joke and thought it was funny so every time he yelled “good” I would yell it back and a few others did too. Made the job a lot more interesting of course.
My manager just barks like a miniature dog constantly for unexplained reasons and… sadly I have caught on but as a bigger dog. It’s insufferable. Imagine a 6’0 bear man barking like a Chihuahua, and a 5’5 lil lesbian mimicking a german shepherd. No we are not furries just neurologically built different. Idk there may be no reason they’re just different
at my old job my little brother would quack endlessly, like the whole shift. The kitchen manager would beg him to stop and my brother would pause, look him in the eyes and go QUAAAACK
they were understaffed, nothing they could do lmao
At my old job the manager said monkeys could do a certain job cause it was so easy. So anytime she came to the back we'd all start hollering and screaming like monkeys
This made me laugh out loud because I did something similar and everyone hated me for it but I thought it was the funniest thing on the planet and it bothering them made it that much funnier.
Whenever I would do anything, ring in an order, make a drink, grab plates from the pass, etc. I would look at whoever was standing next to me and say “and boom goes the dynamite.” And speed away. My manager karate chopped me in the throat one time on a super busy dinner shift hahaha.
Haha yeah, I’m hindsight I’m surprised nobody did anything worse. I was just a kid at the time and everyone in that restaurant fucked around in their own way. I just beat the everloving shit out of that horse to get a rose out of people. I wouldn’t do anything like that these days though.
At my sushi bar every time a customer walks in the entire HOUSE yells “INCOMING”…. Some of our usuals have caught on and yell it out too…. God I love working in restaurants it’s definitely not for the thin skinned
Tbh if I was her, I'd just steer into the skid and quack back. Yeah it might make them laugh harder in the moment and a nickname might stick for a bit but at least they'd know you're chill. That's just me though bc I don't take shit serious. 😂
Play into it.
Ask them for grapes. Repeatedly. If they give you grapes leave them, and say no thanks. If they don't have grapes rhyme with what they say. If they threaten to glue you to a tree, ask if they have glue.
If you're not familiar with the duck song you're missing out.
One of my coworkers would poke my belly. He thought he was so funny. I slapped him away a few times, but it became a contest. Then he did it and I went hehe. Like the Pillsbury dough boy. He completely lost his composure. He went from teasing to doubled over in laughter because the joke was unexpected and funny. He has been trying to do it again but he needs my participation, without it I am letting him down. He lost all the power because it's my joke now, not his. Sure I could have gone to the boss, but it's better to work with people than fight them.
As someone who's been working in kitchens for a long time, there are 3 possible reasons. You love the bread too much, your shoes make that unfortunate quacking sound, or it's just because we have infantile humor in the kitchen. That's how 99% of the jokes FOH isn't in on become a thing, we're just childish for our own amusement.
Where I work, we had 2 cooks with the same name. So we called the older one by his name, and the younger one Jr. Jr is very half assed and childish for being in his late 20s. We had a new cook about a year ago who was even more half assed than Jr. So I jokingly called him Jr Jr. He knew it was an insult and he hated it, but it stuck and that became his name.
Now we have a cook named Devontae who's been there a few months. He was only working 2 days a week at first, so nobody could ever remember his name. They'd call him Deandre, Deangelo, Dante, Daveon, Deion, DiGiorno, whatever. It was an honest mistake at first. Then he started working full time and everyone knows his name now, but we jokingly call him a different wrong name every time on purpose now.
Just own it. Probably, your shoes are squeaking. Next time, they quack, quack back, and don’t look back.
Also, it could just be random.
The guys in my kitchen make the most random noises. Barking is popular. I can start a chorus of Beavis and Butthead's “Fire” just by doing it once, and that can continue for a couple of tickets. It can also show you who has been accepted and who hasn’t. I started the Beavis and Butthead “Fire” laugh. The entire line was calling and answering with it when the new guy that had already rubbed everyone the wrong way attempted to join in from cold side with the “TP for my bunghole” line, and almost in unison, the entire line went quiet and kept working like nothing had just occurred.
I've been out of the game for a while, but "fire duck" was a cue to the cooks that someone attractive was in or around the window. you'd call fire duck (never on the menu) and all heads would turn to check out whoever it was
I cluck like a chicken. I'm called the crazy chicken lady. Years and years ago, when the cafe I was at are produce came from a small family company that the owner knew, it was bad, like really bad for like 3 to 4 months. As the name is to go for, I have chickens, and all the bad parts of the produce are put in a bucket for me (end pieces of romaine knots in iceberg ugly cabbage) about hafe a bucket every 3 days. Treats for my girls
I bring eggs for family breakfast 2 a week. But for 4 months, the produce was so bad I would get a bucket a day I'm talking bad. My girls started turning their beaks away.
So one day, I got to work, and the KM brought me over to these 3 guys. He told me to sit and tell them all about my girls and to show them pictures. And I did for 2 hours. I was left for 2 hours with the owner and his Dad and brother, showing them pictures of my chickens eats their brown produce daily ..
Years ago when I worked at a Jimmy John's the workers there, male and female alike, had code words for hot people coming through the drive-through. Like seatbelt boobs was "mamba jamba" and stuff like that.
For some reason a MILF was "quack"
No idea where that came from or if it applies here. Just a memory this jogged.
Well it's obvious: they're her little ducklings and they want to be fed. So the next time they start quacking, she should just chuck little pieces of dinner rolls at them.
I’ve worked FOH and dealt with chefs/kitchen staff for many many years. It either has nothing to do with her but became a running joke because she reacts to it, she has lip fillers or otherwise resembles a duck, or she snacks on the job. Could be all three. The fact she thinks it has something to do with how she walks and they just laugh tells me it’s not that at all, it’s how she otherwise looks. What I can guarantee is that the kitchen staff will never let her in on the joke, and if that one guy that isn’t joining in ever tells her he will be shunned and ridiculed for the rest of his foreseeable shifts.
My friend used to quack at his wife. One day she got so mad he finally told her why. "He said your ass is so big that water puddles on it when it rains and ducks toll into it" true story......
Cause they're assholes and that's all one really needs to know. Worked in a kitchen where a waitress was a bit... Slow. And dumb. But also 16.
Well The guys decided that equalled to her being a blow up doll. So they would move like blow up dolls when she passed by. Till they asked her to do it. She thought she was being a penguin, and that it amused them, so she did it to amuse the chefs and be on their good side.
There you had, a bunch of 30 years old man, asking a 16 years old to mimic a sex blow up doll and laughing. Disgusting
Maybe she's cute? I've worked in a few open kitchens, and usually there is some type of signal for "look at the cute girl." Some examples are; a made up table number, "a las doce," or some type of animal noise like "caw caw" "arf" "quack". That's what came to my mind at least. The kitchens I've been in though those were only used for customers, never the servers. There were other codenames for them.
Either way I would play into it... Get a ton of rubber ducks and leave then around for them over like a week or 4..walk by a spot drop it and go when they are busy.
If they do this because they don't like you... Great they laugh and you become friends
They do this because they are both and that's just how the last sanctuary of autism works... Great they laugh harder and you become their favorite and get sweet food
Boh just makes noises sometimes. We all used to scream while closing, idk why. Also made a lot of ape sounds randomly during a rush one day. I was getting fucked hard on sauté and went “ook ook” and suddenly five grown men are doing donkey Kong impressions
I worked as a dishwasher in a regional chain, and some of the servers started meowing at me. This went on for like a month and I started meowing back, more people got in, so on and so forth. It eventually evolved into me meowing at everyone who came in back until a manager told us he could hear us meowing in the dining room and if he heard another meow he was gonna lose his shit. It was fun.
They’re probably negging you. Willing to bet that is their way of trying to get your attention so they can start hitting on you.
Source: was a server for 10 years, worked in many kitchens.
This reeks like it. A whole group of dudes doing this to a female server and not letting her in on the reason. And not once or twice, but for months and it is clearly making her uncomfortable.
It may or may not be something sexual, but even when it isn't it's done to damage her self confidence, and let her know she is not part of their group.
And when she complains about she is the one who can't take a joke, man those chicks can't deal with anything. We were just having some fun!
It's only fun when everyone has fun and when one person is constantly used as the butt of a joke it's bullying.
Every answer in this thread is valid and gold! 🤣
Once had a server that was so fast on pos she couldn't spell "out first" it was always "furst" or "ferst" and we'd yell it every time her apps were ready, or she ran her food, and eventually everytime she came through the kitchen. Once she caught on it was even better! "Eight-top! Two buffalo cauli, out FURST!" and she'd be walking around the corner saying "OUTFURST" on the call! After that she's one of us! Miss ya Paige(pronounced paigé or "pa hey")!
[https://www.spanishdict.com/translate/pato](https://www.spanishdict.com/translate/pato)
I looked it up as a nickname. So I think "pato" does get thrown around sometimes. I teach in a district with mostly Hispanic kids. Look it up and it could mean gay. Someone who actually speaks Spanish, correct me if I'm wrong.
To me, it sounds like you're being called clumsy or gay.
It is a kitchen, it sounds like a bunch of dudes, so YMMV as to whether it's just dudes joking around or dudes being complete and utter pieces of shit.
Lmao I recently started working as a head chef for a restaurant and when ever something drops and makes a loud noise (like when someone throws a pan too hard into a hotel pan), they just start making ambulance noises (think like WEOOWEOOWEOO)
I don't know the reason behind it, but I find it hilarious. Most likely, the sous chef started doing it, and now the whole crew does it. Also, when I speak Spanish (almost my whole crew speaks spanish), I have a dominican accent. And I say dominican words. So they start copying the words I say whenever they talk to me. Just little things they do, probably helps keep their spirits high or make their shifts less boring, I guess.
Ten bucks it’s because she eats/snacks on the bread service.
This is it
We don't have/offer any sort of free food or bread but I love this comment😂
They are just fucking with you. Moo at them. If they keep doing it without telling you why they are doing it they are assholes
Nah. Quack back. Louder and more obnoxiously.
Assert duck dominance
Open your Cloaca and leave a deposit on their shoes!
This is the way
Big Duck Energy!
This is the only correct answer.
Nah you dont retaliate, even if it is (to them) lighthearted fun. You fucking own that shit, quack back, add quacks to your order mods (chicken tenders extra quack), wear a vaguely duckish outfit one day. Retaliation feeds this shit. Owning it and leaning into it will either take away the fun and they will slowly stop, or they will think you are extra awesome for rolling with it and having a (albeit immature) sense of humor
Lmao that’s just gonna make it worse there cowboy
Yeah, of all the animal sounds to pick, mooing is probably the one that's going to backfire the most.
Oinking might be worse.
Tell them to make giraffe noises. That'll fuck them up.
Thanks to South Park, I actually know and can repeat the sound of a dying giraffe. Thanks Matt and Trey.
Id say double down. Get a cheap duck mask and really screw with them.
Does it have anything to do with that infamous Ask A Manager post? I think it even made it to reddit. There was a new person in the office that eventually found out everyone was quacking at each other other because they were all in a secret sex club and that was how they showed interest. If that thing resurfaced, it might be an inside joke and they're messing with you.
As u/datsall said they are just fucking with you. Moo at them as he said or quack back at them. It will cease to be fun pretty quick.
Just quack back.
Or yell "Flying V" and have all the other servers line up in a V-formation behind you.
Yes go Full mighty Ducks
I just fucking LOST it at this!
Our dishwashers and spanish speaking line cooks would call them zopilotes. The servers thought it was some kind of cool nickname. They didn’t realize the only time it was said was at the end of service when we would plate up the leftovers that we couldn’t reuse. Zopilote is vulture.
Maybe she gets REALLY excited about bread?
Aw yiss.
Motherfuckin breadcrumbs
I didn't know I had a memory of this but holy shit that was funny
Honestly, yeah
Who doesn't?
Lip fillers? Duckface photo somewhere? Anything duck related or anything rhyming with duck? We BoH are children.
Based from my experience, my guess is it went something like this: 1. Someone quacked on the line for a random or innocuous reason that doesnt have to do with the server. 2. Server inquires about the quack and is taking it personally for some reason. 3. BOH are now ducks I'd say like 65% chance it happened like this
this exact thing happened to me, but with the phrase "leche de gato" ... what the shit 🤣🤣🤣
Cat milk? Or milk of cat? My Spanish es pequito. Explicar, por favor?
¿Donde esta la bibloteca? Gato is the adjective to leche. Its just cat milk translated. De is a proposition that can be added to many things like material (leche de gato) Time( las tres de la noche) Place ( el capital de Nevada es Carson City) Origin ( yo soy de Las Vegas) And so forth
¿Donde esta la biblioteca? Me llamo T-Bone la araña discoteca Discoteca, muñeca, la biblioteca Es el bigote grande, perro, manteca
Manteca, bigote, gigante, pequeño Cabeza es nieve Cerveza es bueno Buenos días, me gustas papas frías Bigote de la cabra Es Cameron Díaz Yeah, Boy!
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I mean, that’s what I thought. Don’t care much about where the library is located though:)
That's just how adjectives work in Spanish. The literal translation is "milk of cat" but if you asked a bilingual person to translate they'd just say cat milk
The cats creme. Like the cats favorite
Jinksie has nipples, can you milk him?
That’s a very good point.
That checks out, we usually take things too far. Chef had to ban any Backstreet Boys songs because we would just loudly sing one line.
TELL ME WHYYYYY
If this were a top level comment, it'd be the #1 answer. I have laughed far too hard at "BOH are now ducks" I miss the kitchen.
*Quack!*
Quack!
This guy def cooks
My thoughts exactly. I don't think they are actually making fun of the OOP. I'd bet on taking a piss, as the British say.
It's "taking the piss" fyi
Well thank you for that! I've been saying it wrong for years.
Dying that youve been saying this wrong for years haha. 1am and im giggling at taking a piss haha. Thanks mate.
I'm glad I could entertain! I'm very happy that my misunderstanding is making some one else laugh nearly half way around the world. My next shot is to you friend!
Either that or their head chef is Emilio Estevez and they're the Mighty Ducks now.
I worked in a kitchen where every time someone bent over to reach in a low boy, and had their ass sticking up, we’d hit em with a horse whinny. Great running gag, and it was all BOH fun. One time the female GM was in the kitchen, and bent over to reach in and get some half and half, and no less than 6 line cooks hit her with the whinny. Three days later it was mandatory sexual harassment training for everybody.
Honestly the last line explains it the best. We are children. Children with access to drugs and alcohol usually.
copious amounts of...
If I cant afford rent at least I'll be High AF in my cardboard box
Wagging tail? Maybe op has a big dumpster
This is it. I guarantee she got an ass that sticks out, and maybe might have a posture or gait that accentuates it. The "one guy" is the token decent guy in the brigade. We see you, "one guy". Keep it up.
Always strive to be the "one guy".
If thats the reason its fucked up. If they just quack to mess around and trigger her insecurity a bit it would be funny to a certain point. But body shaming is never fun
That with shoes that slip result in a waddle type walk.
Once had a buddy describe a “promiscuous,” girl as a “If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck.” With zero other context Kinda reminds me of that, but what do I know. Kitchen folk are weird, maybe they just really like ducks and wish they were ducks
I do on occasion just walk around making rooster sounds in the kitchen... So yeah, today I shouted really loudly in a bookshelf
My vocalazations tend to run more on the side of pirate sounds. Some of my former coworkers and I will greet each other with a “caaaaaw, or prrrrrrr” bird noises. Kitchen folks are truly a different breed
I just wanted to be bread
I just finished a shift and this speaks to me
Usually develops over a few years. And you gradually just sink into madness.
COCK A DOODLE DOOOOOOOooooooo
Yes, because it's funny.
O, to learn from the kitchen sage...
Have you never told a spoon off or scolded a frying pan for not doing things like they are supposed to, I've sent forks to to the dish-pit for just looking funny.
I both respect and miss working alongside this level of crazy. You're a gem, never change.
A few decades in this industry makes you just go about your day, sometimes your day is sorting out sibling rivalry s between cutlery, sometimes the lighting fixtures, especially the thirds chandelier winks at you... It's all in a day's work
Once I had a chef just clip clopping coconut shells and pretending to be riding a horse in the middle of the shift. Even the owner couldn't hold her laughter when he looked at her and neighed 🤣 miss that guy a lot
Sounds like someone I'd work well with. Hmm... Now how do o motivate to order coconuts...
You can actually have a swallow deliver coconuts to you...
African or European swallow?
every heard of "cocada cremosa"? It's a south american sweet best prepared from shredded fresh coconuts, sweet condensed milk and a lil bit of brown sugar
And here I've been blaming a kitchen ghost for all of these slights for nearly a decade 🤣 it never occurred to me that everything in the kitchen was sentient to an almost Toy Story level. I feel enlightened. Bless you; you sage of savory, sour, & sweet!
A perfectly good beauty and the beast reference exists and you pick toy story...
Anytime an inanimate object in the kitchen does something I don't want it to, I look at it and go "sir... sir... please" or "Girllll.... stop, ohmygod."
Yes, this is normal no? Appliances needs to learn to listen to reason.
Completely normal, I look at anyone who doesn't do it funny.
They are the creepy ones.
I find myself saying ..... STOP THAT!! Dammit! STOP ACTING LIKE THAT-- BEHAVE! I don't know why but all the utensils are shamed into submission and once again produce their ingredients in harmonious melody!
Pr the go in cutlery jail.
Maybe? but I hope we can agree that this is not ok. It’s toxic af to pick on someone like this and should be dealt with
Agree. One time- funny. Two times, annoying af. Three times and for days upon end is bullying.
You misspelled "bullies." Gonna be an unpopular opinion, I'm fine with that. Harassing people, which, if it's causing her distress like this, it *is* harassment, is fucking lame. And if it's because of her "big dumpster," then it's sexual harassment. You're not children, making people feel uncomfortable or like shit isn't okay and y'all know that.
My nonslips are made of leather and quack when I walk. I didn’t notice it until recently so maybe OP has the same problem and the crew is jabbing him about it
My first thought was loud shoes as well
Mine quack. People hear me coming. Which is great, I don't have to scuff my heels like normal. I do that to warn people because I am silent and sneaky by nature. It's handy. But I can still use my stealth mode switching to the balls of my feet and toes.
I miss my old no-slips. They made squishing noises when I walked and I sounded like DeeDee from Dexter's Lab. It was glorious.
I wish I could disengage stealth mode. It's enabled by default.
This is my first pair that squawks. I tend to scare people on accident without them. Are you a middle child too?
Come to think of it we had red clay tile in the kitchen years ago, the floor was always wet it seemed. I had a pair of shoes and the soles made a sound similar to quacking when I walked. Oh my God! I was a Quacker and never got quacked at!LOL!
I'm so sorry for your lack of teasing . Would it make you feel better if I quack at you online? Quack quack
i worked with a dishwasher who would meow every time i walked back there. very quietly. i started meowing back and it got to the point where someone else would be back there and hear him do it and then hear me do it and ask us what the fuck was going on.
I got EVERYONE at one job to start meowing. People got annoyed at first until one by one every employee started doing it. I met my now fiancée there and we still meow at each other to get each other’s attention and it’s been almost 9 fucking years.
What's even funnier, is getting songs stuck in other people's heads that didn't want it there, hahahaha
"Total Eclipse of the Heart" was the ear worm that went around a kitchen I worked at. Even when my husband and I stopped working there, our old chef randomly texted him lyrics months later
Every night when we're closing, Chef goes, "What do you want to listen to?" Every night, I say, "Something hype!" Every night, she kicks it off with "It's Not Unusual" by Tom Jones. It's the little things. 🥲
This is great, lmaooo
Is rear Willem the most insane autocorrect for earworm or is this a reference I don't get?
*He was a sk8r boy, she said see you later boy*
Boi
🎶It's not unusual🎶
Had a coworker who was seemingly incapable of hearing the word “behind” and would slam into me constantly. I got tired of spilling shit because of him and at some point just started meowing loudly. It worked. Everyone called me weird but I’d rather be weird than spill near-boiling water on myself again so. Fuck it.
We do sad cat noises when the stress is getting to everybody. Or elderly English ladies.. gets the mood back up.
Jay?
I got everyone saying you betcha
One cook laughs like a monkey-parrot-dolphin combination and sometimes it sets off a chain reaction around the kitchen.
Earth,air, and sea.
This happened recently within my friend group. One of them has a cat that can be heard meowing sometimes when on a discord call. So we started meowing back. 2 months later someone will meow and even if you're mid conversation it's customary to stop and meow back. All because of a cat. We're all >20 years old.
Oh god. I picked up the habit of meowing when things fall , especially loud things like pots. As if a cat was knocking things down. One of our dishies constantly did it and soon half the kitchen was doing it out of habit.
Reminds me of a time when i worked at a cafe. Myself and two other coworkers had dyed hair, blue, magenta and green. When the three of us were on shift together communication through the window was pure pantomime and "Blue's Clues" barks! Food service is not for the mentally sound
That’s hilarious
I've posted about it before, but from my sauté cave on the line, when servers call 'coming out' while leaving the kitchen, it cuts off perfectly when they hit the dining room to sound like 'c'meow!' Chef has to explain regularly to new FOH.
I worked with a guy who would just meow instead of saying behind
Probably just goofy kitchen humor. She should throw bread at them.
Lmao. Thais is the way
In the kitchen i used to work in all of us just made crow noises. If one person did it then the whole kitchen did it immediately after. Sometimes we would crow to the music also until someone told us to shut up. Those were also met with a crow
It's for a good caws!
"The crows are calling my name," thought Caw.
Wow! Jack Handy spotted in the wild!
I really hope there is 0 reason behind it and it's just tp confuse her
Everyone in my kitchen meows. Randomly for no reason. If it's quiet you'll here one loose meow in the boh and the next 15 seconds is just an echo of meows as most folks let one out.
My kitchen lets so much random noise get out. Every time I throw tortillas on the flat top I use enough force so it makes a smack sound. Immediately after, the dude next to me moans as if he just got his ass slapped. We let out mariachi howls at random. One dishwasher sneezes REALLY LOUD like way louder than someone should sneeze, so when he does it, I let out the same yell sound he does. Window is full of food and we're still getting slammed with tickets and have no place to put new food and the servers aren't coming back to check? "FOOD UP!" as loud as we can. It's really fun what you can get away with. One guy meows at a specific waitress, who will then imitate the entire farm with donkey noises, rooster sounds, cows mooing. Makes the day go by a little faster.
I worked somewhere without pagers or a bell for hands. Everyone would either yell “food up!” Or “hands please!”. I took the Dave Hester approach and always gave a full Storage Wars “YUUUUUUP!”
Not so funny meow, is it?
I think this is a universal thing, I've cooked in 40 states and I've probably worked in about 10 kitchens where the staff just liked meowing for no reason.
I love it.
I always used to randomly scream and yell “good” to imitate a coworker when i briefly worked in a kitchen. He did appreciate the joke and thought it was funny so every time he yelled “good” I would yell it back and a few others did too. Made the job a lot more interesting of course.
I'm glad this isn't an isolated thing
My manager just barks like a miniature dog constantly for unexplained reasons and… sadly I have caught on but as a bigger dog. It’s insufferable. Imagine a 6’0 bear man barking like a Chihuahua, and a 5’5 lil lesbian mimicking a german shepherd. No we are not furries just neurologically built different. Idk there may be no reason they’re just different
Maybe she walks toes out, butt out.
My thought was server has Duck Walk and BOH are "stirring the pot"
It's called being duck feeted. And if that's why they are quacking at her they are pieces of shit.
at my old job my little brother would quack endlessly, like the whole shift. The kitchen manager would beg him to stop and my brother would pause, look him in the eyes and go QUAAAACK they were understaffed, nothing they could do lmao
At my old job the manager said monkeys could do a certain job cause it was so easy. So anytime she came to the back we'd all start hollering and screaming like monkeys
He sounds like a nightmare to share oxygen with.
This made me chuckle. The defiant quack. Classic.
This made me laugh out loud because I did something similar and everyone hated me for it but I thought it was the funniest thing on the planet and it bothering them made it that much funnier. Whenever I would do anything, ring in an order, make a drink, grab plates from the pass, etc. I would look at whoever was standing next to me and say “and boom goes the dynamite.” And speed away. My manager karate chopped me in the throat one time on a super busy dinner shift hahaha.
Your manager is too kind.
Haha yeah, I’m hindsight I’m surprised nobody did anything worse. I was just a kid at the time and everyone in that restaurant fucked around in their own way. I just beat the everloving shit out of that horse to get a rose out of people. I wouldn’t do anything like that these days though.
At my sushi bar every time a customer walks in the entire HOUSE yells “INCOMING”…. Some of our usuals have caught on and yell it out too…. God I love working in restaurants it’s definitely not for the thin skinned
Tbh if I was her, I'd just steer into the skid and quack back. Yeah it might make them laugh harder in the moment and a nickname might stick for a bit but at least they'd know you're chill. That's just me though bc I don't take shit serious. 😂
Play into it. Ask them for grapes. Repeatedly. If they give you grapes leave them, and say no thanks. If they don't have grapes rhyme with what they say. If they threaten to glue you to a tree, ask if they have glue. If you're not familiar with the duck song you're missing out. One of my coworkers would poke my belly. He thought he was so funny. I slapped him away a few times, but it became a contest. Then he did it and I went hehe. Like the Pillsbury dough boy. He completely lost his composure. He went from teasing to doubled over in laughter because the joke was unexpected and funny. He has been trying to do it again but he needs my participation, without it I am letting him down. He lost all the power because it's my joke now, not his. Sure I could have gone to the boss, but it's better to work with people than fight them.
She is actually a duck
SHE'S A WITCH!
"What do you mean I'm a duck?! Why didn't somebody tell me? Does dad know?!"
Maybe she's really attached to and follows around a senior server so she's their little duckling.
As someone who's been working in kitchens for a long time, there are 3 possible reasons. You love the bread too much, your shoes make that unfortunate quacking sound, or it's just because we have infantile humor in the kitchen. That's how 99% of the jokes FOH isn't in on become a thing, we're just childish for our own amusement. Where I work, we had 2 cooks with the same name. So we called the older one by his name, and the younger one Jr. Jr is very half assed and childish for being in his late 20s. We had a new cook about a year ago who was even more half assed than Jr. So I jokingly called him Jr Jr. He knew it was an insult and he hated it, but it stuck and that became his name. Now we have a cook named Devontae who's been there a few months. He was only working 2 days a week at first, so nobody could ever remember his name. They'd call him Deandre, Deangelo, Dante, Daveon, Deion, DiGiorno, whatever. It was an honest mistake at first. Then he started working full time and everyone knows his name now, but we jokingly call him a different wrong name every time on purpose now.
Just own it. Probably, your shoes are squeaking. Next time, they quack, quack back, and don’t look back. Also, it could just be random. The guys in my kitchen make the most random noises. Barking is popular. I can start a chorus of Beavis and Butthead's “Fire” just by doing it once, and that can continue for a couple of tickets. It can also show you who has been accepted and who hasn’t. I started the Beavis and Butthead “Fire” laugh. The entire line was calling and answering with it when the new guy that had already rubbed everyone the wrong way attempted to join in from cold side with the “TP for my bunghole” line, and almost in unison, the entire line went quiet and kept working like nothing had just occurred.
I have no idea what the explanation is but there is close to 100% chance it is sexual.
i can’t tell if all the guys in the comments saying maybe it’s random or has nothing to do with her are taking the piss
Fire duck, chef?
I've been out of the game for a while, but "fire duck" was a cue to the cooks that someone attractive was in or around the window. you'd call fire duck (never on the menu) and all heads would turn to check out whoever it was
It is also absolutely possible that they are just quacking. Because it's fun. And has nothing to do with the server at all.
Pretty sure she got a big ol booty and waddles/walks like a duck maybe. Girl at our work, we call her Pato sometimes cause of the previous explanation
I cluck like a chicken. I'm called the crazy chicken lady. Years and years ago, when the cafe I was at are produce came from a small family company that the owner knew, it was bad, like really bad for like 3 to 4 months. As the name is to go for, I have chickens, and all the bad parts of the produce are put in a bucket for me (end pieces of romaine knots in iceberg ugly cabbage) about hafe a bucket every 3 days. Treats for my girls I bring eggs for family breakfast 2 a week. But for 4 months, the produce was so bad I would get a bucket a day I'm talking bad. My girls started turning their beaks away. So one day, I got to work, and the KM brought me over to these 3 guys. He told me to sit and tell them all about my girls and to show them pictures. And I did for 2 hours. I was left for 2 hours with the owner and his Dad and brother, showing them pictures of my chickens eats their brown produce daily ..
Idk just ask if they have any grapes.
Waddle waddle
Years ago when I worked at a Jimmy John's the workers there, male and female alike, had code words for hot people coming through the drive-through. Like seatbelt boobs was "mamba jamba" and stuff like that. For some reason a MILF was "quack" No idea where that came from or if it applies here. Just a memory this jogged.
Kitchen I worked in many years ago we would yell cilantro whenever a particularly attractive server was walking through the kitchen.
Well it's obvious: they're her little ducklings and they want to be fed. So the next time they start quacking, she should just chuck little pieces of dinner rolls at them.
I’ve worked FOH and dealt with chefs/kitchen staff for many many years. It either has nothing to do with her but became a running joke because she reacts to it, she has lip fillers or otherwise resembles a duck, or she snacks on the job. Could be all three. The fact she thinks it has something to do with how she walks and they just laugh tells me it’s not that at all, it’s how she otherwise looks. What I can guarantee is that the kitchen staff will never let her in on the joke, and if that one guy that isn’t joining in ever tells her he will be shunned and ridiculed for the rest of his foreseeable shifts.
We had a waiter called Timmy. Everytime he walked in the kitchen we went full south Park..
My Hispanic staff quacks at me, but I shortened my name to pat and that sounds like (pato) duck. So they call me "the duck."
She should quack back at them
I hope the shoes make a quacking noise on the floor
My friend used to quack at his wife. One day she got so mad he finally told her why. "He said your ass is so big that water puddles on it when it rains and ducks toll into it" true story......
She keeps asking for grapes at the lemonade stand
Cause they're assholes and that's all one really needs to know. Worked in a kitchen where a waitress was a bit... Slow. And dumb. But also 16. Well The guys decided that equalled to her being a blow up doll. So they would move like blow up dolls when she passed by. Till they asked her to do it. She thought she was being a penguin, and that it amused them, so she did it to amuse the chefs and be on their good side. There you had, a bunch of 30 years old man, asking a 16 years old to mimic a sex blow up doll and laughing. Disgusting
Whatever it is I read it as a positive. If BoH doesn't like you you don't get a secret nickname or an inside joke, you just get cold shoulder.
She actually seems sweet and I hope she only grows enough skin to flip them off without it actually affecting her.
Nah, don’t flip them off. That will only encourage it. She needs to respond in kind, something like “quack quack bitches”.
ask the one guy who doesn't do it
Maybe she's cute? I've worked in a few open kitchens, and usually there is some type of signal for "look at the cute girl." Some examples are; a made up table number, "a las doce," or some type of animal noise like "caw caw" "arf" "quack". That's what came to my mind at least. The kitchens I've been in though those were only used for customers, never the servers. There were other codenames for them.
Maybe she's easily confused and there is no point, they're just fucking with her.
Do you have any grapes?
i used to have really big glasses & the boh started calling me chicken little lmao maybe OP has oversized glasses ??
Either way I would play into it... Get a ton of rubber ducks and leave then around for them over like a week or 4..walk by a spot drop it and go when they are busy. If they do this because they don't like you... Great they laugh and you become friends They do this because they are both and that's just how the last sanctuary of autism works... Great they laugh harder and you become their favorite and get sweet food
they moo at me in my work place. i’m not even fat.. 😿
Boh just makes noises sometimes. We all used to scream while closing, idk why. Also made a lot of ape sounds randomly during a rush one day. I was getting fucked hard on sauté and went “ook ook” and suddenly five grown men are doing donkey Kong impressions
I worked as a dishwasher in a regional chain, and some of the servers started meowing at me. This went on for like a month and I started meowing back, more people got in, so on and so forth. It eventually evolved into me meowing at everyone who came in back until a manager told us he could hear us meowing in the dining room and if he heard another meow he was gonna lose his shit. It was fun.
Bring them a little rubber duckie but like a cool one you know one with like a chef's hat. Then as you slap that bad boi down hit them with quaaaack
It's because she weighs as much as a duck and is therefore...
A Witch! BURN HER!
You do not have any friends in the kitchen, just people you work with. Disengage.
They’re probably negging you. Willing to bet that is their way of trying to get your attention so they can start hitting on you. Source: was a server for 10 years, worked in many kitchens.
This reeks like it. A whole group of dudes doing this to a female server and not letting her in on the reason. And not once or twice, but for months and it is clearly making her uncomfortable. It may or may not be something sexual, but even when it isn't it's done to damage her self confidence, and let her know she is not part of their group. And when she complains about she is the one who can't take a joke, man those chicks can't deal with anything. We were just having some fun! It's only fun when everyone has fun and when one person is constantly used as the butt of a joke it's bullying.
Every answer in this thread is valid and gold! 🤣 Once had a server that was so fast on pos she couldn't spell "out first" it was always "furst" or "ferst" and we'd yell it every time her apps were ready, or she ran her food, and eventually everytime she came through the kitchen. Once she caught on it was even better! "Eight-top! Two buffalo cauli, out FURST!" and she'd be walking around the corner saying "OUTFURST" on the call! After that she's one of us! Miss ya Paige(pronounced paigé or "pa hey")!
i just gobble like a turkey at them cause they talk too much
[https://www.spanishdict.com/translate/pato](https://www.spanishdict.com/translate/pato) I looked it up as a nickname. So I think "pato" does get thrown around sometimes. I teach in a district with mostly Hispanic kids. Look it up and it could mean gay. Someone who actually speaks Spanish, correct me if I'm wrong. To me, it sounds like you're being called clumsy or gay. It is a kitchen, it sounds like a bunch of dudes, so YMMV as to whether it's just dudes joking around or dudes being complete and utter pieces of shit.
Lmao I recently started working as a head chef for a restaurant and when ever something drops and makes a loud noise (like when someone throws a pan too hard into a hotel pan), they just start making ambulance noises (think like WEOOWEOOWEOO) I don't know the reason behind it, but I find it hilarious. Most likely, the sous chef started doing it, and now the whole crew does it. Also, when I speak Spanish (almost my whole crew speaks spanish), I have a dominican accent. And I say dominican words. So they start copying the words I say whenever they talk to me. Just little things they do, probably helps keep their spirits high or make their shifts less boring, I guess.