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UK warehouse pickers earning more than fast paced chefs/cooks?

This baffles me, working in kitchens is fast paced, high stress, hot, unpredictable at times and takes a special kind of person to deal with it all and have food go out In a timely manner. You have a lot of daily responsibilities and forgetting something could ruin an entire service. Yet a warehouse picker, who drives round on a LLOP and literally picks boxes up and puts them on a pallet, gets considerably more and has zero stress or unpredictable rushes of work, you can literally do the job on autopilot without thinking at all. I had to resign from a warehouse, for personal reasons and move. I have lots of experience as a teenager in kitchens so got a temporary kitchen job, essentially running a kitchen by myself for only £11 and hour…. i have bills to pay and all… Yet I was making £17h at a warehouse…


This baffles me, working in kitchens is fast paced, high stress, hot, unpredictable at times and takes a special kind of person to deal with it all and have food go out In a timely manner.

You have a lot of daily responsibilities and forgetting something could ruin an entire service.

Yet a warehouse picker, who drives round on a LLOP and literally picks boxes up and puts them on a pallet, gets considerably more and has zero stress or unpredictable rushes of work, you can literally do the job on autopilot without thinking at all.

I had to resign from a warehouse, for personal reasons and move.

I have lots of experience as a teenager in kitchens so got a temporary kitchen job, essentially running a kitchen by myself for only £11 and hour…. i have bills to pay and all…

Yet I was making £17h at a warehouse doing monkey work.. It makes literally no sense to me.

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