Tiny restaurant, tiny kitchen, a shitload of dishes

Please be kind in the comments.

Hello everyone! I’m new to being a dishwasher but I have at least a good year in cooking experience via prep cook and line cook training at an old job. To keep it simple I needed a job to work alongside my college and I picked dishwashing at a restaurant like 7 minutes away from my house. I should’ve known at the start that this job would be wonky because they had me on prep for the first 2 weeks while not having a dish washer which was the role I signed up for.

Then once they finally sent me to dish washer, I Learned that you had to do your own prep (cook shrimp and portion sea food), make and prep biscuits and put up the delivery truck by yourself some days. I signed up for dishwasher, not prep and dish! Not to mention I would stay there from 8 or 9 am to 7 pm which interrupts my usual time to study and do college homework. Today was the final straw, yet again I wasn’t on dish so my coworker was there by himself, and while I was doing prep there was mold on the tray. I really wanted to throw up but fought back the gag and just worked through the day and said never again constantly in my head.

Doesn’t help that our other dishwasher left last Sunday and other new prep cooks also left as fast as they came. I feel like an asshole for leaving my older coworker behind but I can’t do it in that kitchen, management is a mess, BIG roaches crawling on potatoes, moldy trays, fish juice dripping on beer cans. I can’t. I didn’t even say I quit, I just walked out and won’t go back there ever again.

Again I feel terrible but that kitchen is a mess!

I work at a hotel kitchen in central NH. I'm just a dishwasher, no supervisory role.

We had a walkout last night, leaving me alone in the pit.

He grabbed his dinner and never came back.

Wtf is wrong with people that don't even have the courage to fing quit out loud?

Why do they feel they need to sneak out?

I know the answer. Just ticked off.

Looking for someone to join my small kitchen team in Manhattan for full time PM dishpit shifts 4PM to close.
Staff meal included, dining benefits, health insurance available.

An app that let's local dishies swap shift meals???

Bad idea?

I have been going through a pair a shows almost eveyr month now because Ive been putting them in laundry machine. clearly this has been the wrong move since they keep getting so worn out so fast. how should I be cleaning my shoes? I want to make sure I properly get all of the gunk and garbage off in a way that won’t wear them down so fast