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

15. Cleaning The Condiments

Condiments. Ah, so many bottles of condiments. So many glass bottles of Heinz ketchup with congealed tomato sauce all around the rim. Plastic squirty bottles of brown sauce smeared with the stuff all down the sides. And if you're really lucky, bowls of sauce sachets which explode everywhere, get mixed up, run out during the busiest periods, and seem to blow all over the pub garden during the summer when they're empty. And guess who gets to clean all that sauce chaos up? Yup, it's you, the reliable sauce-replenisher. You're the person who gets to wipe up smears of sauce, find random items to replace lost bottle tops, pick scabby bits of old stuff off the bottle, and spend hours picking out salad sachets from the mayonnaise sachet bowl.
 
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