Do you know why you’re still doing dishes? Because you keep complaining about it. Nobody likes to work with a complainer.
If you continue to leave a clean station and not complain, I'll put you on the make table next week.
For one of the first times in my life, I felt empowered. Our staff was like a second family. We had all-day staff parties that started with rafting trips and ended with dinner and movies. Jeff was the leader of this unlikely family. He was about 15 years older than me and had recently gone through a divorce. I never considered it at the time, because he seemed to be having as much fun as everyone else, but if I was using my job to create the family I wish I’d had, it was possible that he was, too.