At the one (Thai) restaurant where I work now, my one (chubby) (Thai) coworker was burned out for a bit, but she couldn't find time to take time off, since she said that the (Thai) (husband) boss always needed her and couldn't run the restaurant without her.
"You see how he calls me!", she was like, referring to how he always needs her in the kitchen to pack takeout and how he calls her sometimes if she's away doing other tasks.
And, I had to remind her how he's getting spoiled... I have worked at the restaurant longer than her, from just after the peak of the pandemic, and so I told her how I had put my resume in at restaurants around town, and how they had had a sign up on the door that they were closed that weekday because of the worker shortage, and how I came back later to apply and then at the interview he told me that people didn't want to work anymore, and now, now what's happening, but he has a lot of dependable workers and he even took down the big driver/server application sign that he always had up in the front window, since he doesn't even need to keep resumes on hand anymore for when anyone quits unexpectedly.
"He's spoiled now," I was like, quite seriously.
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