I used to work as a baker for an ice cream company (local and small-ish at the time). It was a Sunday and the only other baker scheduled had called out...again. So it fell to me to make 16 40-quart pots of caramel, multiple enormous batches of brownies, and some marshmallow fluff on my own.
I was having to work pretty quickly to compensate for the lack of help, and after I finished putting some of the caramel into hotel pans I hastily put them on a speed rack and started to wheel then towards the back to cool. I was in such a hurry that I didn't realize I had loaded the speed rack a bit unevenly. The rack started to tip towards me and my efforts to keep it upright were all for naught. A hotel pan at face level starting sliding towards me and I just BAILED. No job is worth getting 2nd degree burns on your face.
In my escape attempt, a wave of caramel cascaded down one of my legs and into both of my kitchen clogs. I screamed because goddamn, that hurt. A bunch of people came running, my supervisor slipped and fell into the caramel river...It was a hot mess. Literally.
The insanely hot warehouse worker (/EMT in training/part time model) scooped me up, took me to a safe area, and inspected me while telling awful jokes to get me to stop crying.
I miraculously did not get fired and ended up hooking up with that coworker a few times.
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u/imyourdruidess420 4d ago
I once spilled ~15 gallons of hot caramel at a job. This AI slop really took me back. Not that it was accurate in any way