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1. Escoffier Gab refugee (escoffier@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 00:43:22 JST Escoffier Gab refugee

   • Sick Burn, Bro
   • teknomunk
   • Vulpes_Quartus
   @sickburnbro @Vulpes_Quartus @teknomunk So for an industry perspective of someone who spent decades in the business and predate culinary school?
   
   It was an HR driven phenomenon. No chef in his right mind ever said " hey can you put my line cooks in debt and make them think they're chefs when they are really apprentices?"
   
   Also I would personally much rather train a dishwasher who has some hustle how to cook. I'm a cook/chef that's part of my jib and I'm good at it.
   
   Finally back in the day people would just work in kitchens s and if they liked it they would stick with it. Today, having never worked in a kitchen they will drop $35,000 to ultimately learn they have no business working in a kitchen.
   
   Long story longer culinary school is a scam perpetrated by the education cartel who smelled millions of dollars they could extract from unwitting victims
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Apr-2024 01:04:18 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     • Sick Burn, Bro
     • teknomunk
     • Vulpes_Quartus

     @Escoffier @sickburnbro @Vulpes_Quartus @teknomunk I've flipped back and forth on how useful education is in all the industries I've been in, and by now I've come to the decidedly noble-minded idea that It's all dependent upon the stock you're starting with.

     Some men just 'got it', they're smart, apt, mentally astute and drink up knowledge in a way that combines it to their mental constellation of understanding that actually maps to reality. They can extrapolate trends and foresee issues in the moment they begin to germinate.

     I now doubt you can really teach that in any capacity. They're either born with the noble blood required, allowing them to build experience on that foundation, or they're not, and they'll only at best be a useful drone. Educated kids are often this type, great on rote memory, fine for being automatons, but very poor in thinking on their feet and working outside the narrowly defined range they were taught in school.

     It's almost depressing. The student stock our industry is getting now is.....bleak.