GREMILINS and/or MURPHY

Well Sunday turned out to be a n interesting day. It is a good thing that it was fast Sunday and we didn't have to have dinner out until 3:00 or we would not have made it. First off I thought I had to be there at 9:30 which is what time I got there. I found out it was really 9:00 I was supposed to be there, but since I was the only one there until 10:30 it was OK. We were supposed to have pork roast and shrimp for dinner. I couldn;t find the roast in the ovens where it was supposed to have been put earlir by the chef. Well we found out the it was roast tender loins not loin roast. (By then my fellow cook was there). We preceded to prepare the rest of the meal, We had called the chef and he told us how to cook said tenderloins.About one hour before the meal we discovered that we didn't have the shrimp, it had not been ordered, We happened upon 31 cases of chicken cordon bleu so we used that. Whenmaking the potatoes a piece of plastic fell in the batch and we couldn't find it thus having to throw those out and make more. The manager on duty burned the rolls. Someone got enthusiastic and threw out everything I had in my"mailbox" the day before. I had a binder with paper work in it. Well we finally got the food out and ready to go (minus the hot dinner rolls and with cordon bleu instead of shrimp) The final straw came when just as I was getting ready to go eat, I hadn't eaten since 8:00, my fellow helper went out to eat leaving me there while he and his family ate dinner. We are required by law to take a break after five hours. and I only had one hr left before my shift was up. While he was out there we ran out of potatoes and cordon bleu, All of the students had gone homt but the one frying chicken for the fried chicken bar which we also have on Sun. So here I am trying to mmake mashed potatoes and bake more chicken cordon bleu at the same time! The finally came back in and when I told him we needed potatoes He promptly left the kitchen and didn't come. The manager on duty finally called him to the kitchen over thr intercom. By the it was 5:00. I finished baking the cordon bleu and checked out for dinner. I ate dinner and then went home leaving him toclean up. He is not a full time person so technically he is under me but he doesn't seam to like that and is constiantly thinking I don't know what i am talking about. Anyway I left him the mess. Monday was better, but long I had Tues off but I then have to work thru Sat with only Sun off, so my Christmas doings do not get much attention.