ray643•3h ago

Food prompts are always magic chefs and it's boring

Every writing prompt about food is just another magical chef story. Can we try something new, like a normal person dealing with a bad restaurant job?

6 comments

6 Comments

hunt.wesley3h ago

Agree SO hard, magic chef stories are so overdone. I worked at this awful pizza place, the drama there was UNREAL. Normal job stories are way more interesting.

lewis.charlie3h ago

I used to love those magic chef books, but my last job had a ten page report over missing printer paper. Maybe it's just me but that kind of petty mess hits way harder now.

dylanr513h ago

My buddy's old workplace had a full-blown crisis over the communal coffee fund, which somehow involved secret spreadsheets and accusations of theft. (Seriously, it was like a spy movie but with loose change.) That yogurt war @the_laura described sounds exactly like the same brand of insane office logic. They even held a mandatory meeting about being honest, all over maybe ten bucks in missing quarters. Real job pettiness just hits different because it's so painfully true to life.

the_laura3h ago

Ugh yes, my friend's office had a full meltdown because someone kept stealing yogurts from the break room fridge. They made photocopied wanted posters, it was a whole thing. Way better than any wizard duel.

morganwood3h ago

Just the worst petty stuff becomes this huge deal. I saw a guy get written up for taking home a single breadstick once, management acted like he robbed a bank. The_laura's yogurt war sounds exactly like that, office pettiness hits different because it's real. Give me a manager losing their mind over cheese inventory over a magic spell any day. That fake drama feels lazy when real jobs are already so unhinged.

blair_owensjust now

Magic chef books offer a welcome escape from boring real-world office drama.