I am a slave to the printer
Conditioned response. n. Psychology. In psychology , the response made by a person or animal after learning to associate an experience with a neutral or arbitrary stimulus. Conditioned response experiments by Ivan Pavlov paired a neutral stimulus (sounding a bell) with a natural response (salivating) by associating the bell with the presentation of food. --Answers.comSometimes I feel like Pavlov is running an experiment with me inside of it. Nights like tonight really do a number on me. I'm running low on a number of prep items and things needed to get done for tomorrow - onion tarts, a new soup, clams, cookies, etc. And yet, I am at the mercy of that fucking printer. Today wasn't insane busy ... I wasn't stacked up to the point where I had 8 or 9 tickets in the window, but I had a constant stream of tickets coming in when I had a shitload to do.
I haven't gotten to the point where I can just relax and just let things flow. When it comes to the line, the most essential qualities of people come out. Throw them into the crucible and the shit starts flowing out. For me, I get stressed and I tend to become curt and pissed ... I have to move beyond that and at times, I'm acle to keep myself from being stressed out. At others, I'm not and on a night when I'm flying solo and I'm fucking behind in my prep, it's not so easy to be relaxed.
Stimulus. Printer spits out another ticket, putting me further behind.
Response. Go into the walk-in, scream, then come back out.
I've gotta work on that. I'm not a fucking dog.
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