Quote: (08-26-2017 12:04 AM)Zelcorpion Wrote:
Kitchen environment is very stressful. Hiring an ex-con with a "I'll kill you if you make me angry face" is not the best of ideas. You would have to buy him weed daily to mellow him down.
I'm from Charleston and worked in the restaurant industry for years, and I can tell you that pretty much every dishwasher in every restaurant is a kinda shady, mildly crazy/retarded (usually black) guy or Latino immigrant.
I once worked at a pretty classy joint, with a rooftop bar and waiters dressed in white dinner jackets and black ties, just down the street from Virginia's and even there the dishwashers were people who could barely speak English or ghetto blacks.
And this is in a mostly white, fairly affluent city with a strong culinary reputation. It's even worse when you get into areas like predominantly-black North Charleston, where even the line cooks tend to all be drug dealers or "ex"-criminals. Because most cooks don't make much either. At best, you're getting a tattooed white guy with serious drug or alcohol problems, even in Charleston.
This guy's rap sheet is terrifying, but I've even worked in restaurants that had a guy come in a few hours a day from a prison work release program. If I remember correctly, he was a convicted rapist.
The fact of that matter is, the only people who are going to wash dishes all day in a hot, sweaty, wet dish pit for minimum wage are people who have very little prospects.
The only reason this story even made national news, I'm guessing, is the combination of the area it happened in and the fact that the guy he killed was a decently successful chef in a city that draws national acclaim for its restaurants.
But I think the speculation on there being some kind of coverup is a reach, since, like I said, he could've went on a fucking rampage if he wanted to. That restaurant is surrounded by countless restaurants and stores, just a block from a university campus, several dorms, and a heavily trafficked park.