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>> My name is James Mangus [assumed
spelling], I'm a sous chef here at With

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and Wisdom Tavern in Baltimore, Maryland.

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On a daily basis, I will come into work, I
will immediately, because I work at night,

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I will talk to whatever chef is
on duty, or my executive chef

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to get a feel for what's going on for the day.

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I will check the orders to make sure
everything came in properly, check the schedule

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to make sure the cooks are coming
in when they need to be coming in.

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And then from there, it's basically
like a sprint until the end of service.

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It's running around, making sure
that everybody's food is on point,

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everybody has everything that they need to be
successful to go into a busy dinner service.

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At the beginning of service, when orders start
coming in, basically the first thing is I try

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to make sure that everybody's in
the mindset to go into a service.

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Not only am I making sure that they're good,
mentally, but making sure that everything

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that they're doing is correct,
they have the tools that they need.

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If anybody needs anything, I will do it.

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Basically, I feel like my position,
right now, is to make sure that they're

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as successful and set up as possible.

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But also, trying to make sure that if anybody
runs out of something, I'm there to get it

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for them, or to make sure that
I'm mentoring somebody properly.

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There's a lot of different things that
kind of all happen at once, you know?

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I would say, on average I
probably work about 12 hours a day.

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I'll come in maybe 10 30, 11 in the morning, or
12 or 1, depending on whenever my shift starts,

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and then I'll leave around 1, 2 in the morning.

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It's a long, long day.

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And it's long because you're
constantly on your feet.

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I, maybe I spend 10 minutes a day
sitting down, and that's when I'm

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like doing my emails or something.

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But you get used to it.

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You don't really feel it, you know?

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It's almost euphoric.

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Like you had such a good
experience at work, that you don't,

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you don't feel the physical pain
anymore, you know what I mean?

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I go home at night, and I've taken a shower,
and then I'm like, ow, and I look down,

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and there's like a huge burn on my hand.

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You don't, sometimes you're just so busy,
and your mind is so preoccupied with service

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and what's going on, you don't
really think about, like,

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the physicality of what's actually happening.