15 Problems Only People Who Work For A Pub Chain Will Understand

5. Cleaning The Cutlery

How is it even possible that there is so much cutlery in this one building; let alone across the whole pub chain? And what about the whole world: how many knives and forks and spoons and steak knives and tea spoons are there across the entire globe? It feels like you're cleaning them all right now. You get your bucket of supposedly clean cutlery (which is never clean; the forks always have dirty bits of food stuck between the tines), and another bucket of water filled with white vinegar. Feeling like an alchemist, you shine up those smeared bits of cutlery until you can use them as mirrors. Only to look down and realise your fingers have morphed into small wrinkly sausgey things, and you're going to smell like vinegar until the end of time because that smell just does't lift.