The post below made me think of this
not strictly my colleagues, but my parents colleagues.

As well as holding down their jobs, they also owned and ran a function type place. It did weddings, christenings that kind of thing, and it also operated as a standard restaurant. In any other part of the country it'd have been nice but decidedly slightly old-fashioned and certainly not gourmet food. However in this area this passed as 'proper posh,' which confused my mother in particular since as well as owning and running it, she also worked in the kitchen and all the food was stuff she could make easily and had done before she started the business.

Now something in the water made finding staff with even two braincells to rub together near impossible. There's a long long list of all of the incredibly stupid things that happened- the time the chef didn't know how long to whip cream for and just tipped half-whipped cream onto meringues, when cooking sausages cut them in half (lengthways) to try and get them off the pan, the disastrous attempt of asking her to try and make whisky and pepper sauce, rather than just buying in pepper sauce and dumping some whisky in it.

However the crowning jewel was the time she asked my parents if they'd let a young trainee chef come and work for a bit, to get a hang of the business etc, saying he was already mostly trained and wanted hands on experience. He proved so completely useless and fundamentally stupid, that my mother eventually just asked him to go and prepare the bread/toast for pate, thinking he could do no harm there.

When she came back, he was not only carefully buttering every piece of bread to be toasted, he was buttering both sides, and on all four of the edges, since 'he hadn't been told which side.'
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 23:42, 1 reply)

Obviously he
- was not a believer in Murphy's Law &
- didn't know which side his bread was buttered on!
Sorry.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Fri 4 Mar 2011, 23:55, closed)