• EnderMB@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Eh, this is somewhat true, and he’s dug into this a few times. Some is put up for TV, but he’s inclined to be annoyed at people that call themselves chefs, take people’s money, and serve them sub-par products. In a few shows, like the one with Angela Hartnett where she took over The Connaught, it showed that he’s still an angry dude, but that it was needed because he’s taking over the restaurant at one of London’s finest hotels. Michelin Star places seem to be the same boiling pot of bullying and anger to strive for the best possible quality.

        Some chefs, like J Kenji Lopez Alt have called it and him out several times on it, because it’s a very damaging practice, and one that spreads throughout the industry from wannabe Ramsay’s that thinks intimidation is needed to make food.

        I’m sure Ramsay is a lovely guy in person, but I would hate to work for him.

        • Alien Nathan Edward@lemm.eeEnglish
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          10 months ago

          18 years in restaurants checking in: Gordon Ramsay is not very far from the mean at all. In fact, I’d say he’s a mean mean man of average rage, and it’s the nature of the industry that does this to us. It’s flat-out abusive even in its best implementation, and the far and away vast majority of restaurants are purposefully exploitative. This goes double for back of house. I was usually a server or bartender, though I did work every hourly position at some point in my career. Front of house at least gets compensated more the busier they are. Back of house gets what they get whether they sell two orders of fries in an evening or they spend all shift with ten tickets on the rail and 30 open menus. Back of house also doesn’t get paid all that well, outside of a few rockstars. It’s a super high stress position, and that stress level is completely unpredictable. Any random Tuesday afternoon you could find yourself behind the line all alone as the third bus pulls into the parking lot. The extremely variable nature of the stress means two things:

          1. You don’t cook as a career unless you love turning out great food. You might do a couple years just because you need a job but it’s so hard on your mind and body that after a while you literally either love it or leave it.

          2. Eventually everyone in the kitchen becomes what Robert Anton Wilson called “…the walking wounded…slightly deranged by either anxiety or grief.” There’s a lot of PTSD in kitchens and, because hurt people hurt people, it tends to spread to new people and reinforce itself in veterans. In the highest volume store I ever worked in we used to joke that sexual harassment and bullying were just how we said “Hello”. It’s not okay, but it’s the reality on the ground. It tends to develop spontaneously because of the way restaurants work and once it takes root it’s really hard to get rid of.

          So the average restaurant worker is half Anthony Bourdain, here for the love of food and people, trying to experience new and great things and build new and great things for other people to experience just out of a general enthusiasm for humanity. He’s also half Gordon Ramsay, throwing an overcooked steak back at you because a cow had to die to make it and our guest had to sell a little bit of their life to afford it, so you will fucking respect both of their sacrifices and turn out some good fucking food. It’s love, and it’s pride, and it’s trauma, and it’s passion for what is essentially an unrecognized folk art. And if it paid the bills I’d go back in a heartbeat.

      • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        His response to Linus was interesting to read.

        Oh and especially this comment further down in the conversation…

        As it is, I feel like I have to waste my time checking all your patches, and I’m saying “it’s not worth it”.

        I’m basically done with this. I never said I was a VFS guy and I learned a lot doing this. I had really nobody to look at my code even though most of it went to the fsdevel list. Nobody said I was doing it wrong.

        Sorry to have wasted your time

        • xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works
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          10 months ago

          Sheesh. Seeing just how long he goes on tantruming is kinda surprising 😳 seems like the guy was just trying to contribute… ya don’t have you shit in mouth, right? Jesus

          • Nate Cox@programming.devEnglish
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            10 months ago

            Thank you for validating my feelings here. I don’t know why we idolize this kind of behavior, but berating someone on a mailing list should not be acceptable, much less desirable.

      • XTornado@lemmy.ml
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        10 months ago

        I love this part:

        the next time I see you copying VFS functions (or any other core functions) without udnerstanding what the f*ck they do, and why they do it, I’m going to put you in my spam-filter for a week.

        Like after all that he will just block him for a week 🤣 I would block them for a year minimum or forever…

    • rekabis@lemmy.ca
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      10 months ago

      reads the article

      considers the triggers prompting the outburst

      He’s… not wrong.

      Not right, but definitely not wrong. There is a big difference between effective security and total security. He was dumping on total security, which in many ways is worse than no security at all.

    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      [I]f you have anything to do with security in a distro, and think that my kids (replace ‘my kids’ with ‘sales people on the road’ if you think your main customers are businesses) need to have the root password to access some wireless network, or to be able to print out a paper, or to change the date-and-time settings, please just kill yourself now. The world will be a better place,” he wrote.

      Hah love it