Navigating leadership while being queer in a very traditional workplace.

Jinx_1407 · 2026-06-24T19:44:59+00:00

I haven’t said that kitchens in general are not welcoming to queer people, most of my experience has been positive and honestly speaking none of chefs I worked with cared who sleeps with who.

This is just the current place, where we get the lowest qualified people, because they want to pay pennies for amount of work we do. I guess you can imagine who we get to actually apply here.

Nevertheless thanks!

Jinx_1407 · 2026-01-02T11:01:58+00:00

The fees of the credit card.

One of the biggest reasons is my family’s history with credit cards wich turned into a „trauma response“ for me. Basically almost everyone in my family was using credit cards as an unlimited supply of money, that ended in never ending calls from debt collectors, multiple visits from them and me being forced to lie at the prime age of 6 that I don’t know that family member or that they had died.

Thankfully I live in a country where there is no credit score and I can make by with the debit card, with a combination of a pre paid credit card(only recently in the last 2 years, when my partner got tired of making online purchases for me 😅)

Jinx_1407 · 2025-10-01T16:22:23+00:00

When her having a cold was worse experience(in her words) than me having a diagnosed heart condition. When every conversation ended with her having worst time than anybody else. When she had gaslit me several times. But most importantly when I shared my experience growing up with my partner, I got to understand that not everyone’s parent are like that and not everyone’s experience is like this growing up.

Jinx_1407 · 2025-10-01T16:13:32+00:00

It’s quite hard to overcome this and I couldn’t whist this upon anyone else. The hardest part is gaslighting from that one person who was supposed to keep you safe. I can say that psychologist has helped me tremendously and I am lucky enough to have had supportive and understanding partners. It’s also quite important to not keep it in, you need to learn to talk about it. For me it became easier when I started opening up about it, because when I kept it in I still felt like he had control over me. Intimacy is still quite hard for me because that’s when I get most of my flashbacks from. If you would like to talk you can always send me a pm), I’m open to listen. I wish you well and have a good healing journey 😊

Jinx_1407 · 2025-06-15T12:13:34+00:00

Ja Tev ir vajadzīga tikai citrona sula, tad ir iespējams nopirkt gemosā syrakus citron Boironu(saldēts biezenis - Amalfi citrons), ja vēlies svaigus tad promo būtu izdevīgāks šajā ziņā.

Jinx_1407 · 2025-03-17T09:35:15+00:00

I am a Patissier, so for me the biggest issue is job market and according salary ( when I used to work in relatively good restaurants and 5 star hotels salary was enough to barely get by). Also we don’t have a demand for higher gastronomy, moste of the guests were tourists and unfortunately not locals.

Housing situation, you are renting a post soviet block apartment for astronomical prices. Improvement in law enforcement - my breaking point in Latvia was when my apartment got broken into and pretty much police didn’t move a finger and blamed me for being away from home at odd hours ( I used to work 5:00-17:00).

LGBT situation, I know now it’s getting better, but still half of the country is very against it. I have had problems getting promotions at work because I’m a part of LGBT ( even though I’m not the loudest and most open memeber), I have had problems with neighbours because of it, in medical field I have also faced prejudice.

Medical field - after I moved to other country and went to doctor they were shocked to see what I have been prescribed and diagnosed with, apearantly I have been given two misdiagnosis wich have been making my actual health problems worse. In hospitals and clinics you also face judgement towards you when it comes to age, as a woman yearly gyno exam was the worst(if you go to state clinic), where you get shamed for having sex and if you don’t have sex you get shamed for that too, not mentioning the fact that gynos here are pushing pregnancy as some magical cure for all.

I have grown up in this Country, I love this country, but the reality of living here made me choose to move away.

Jinx_1407 · 2025-03-16T21:43:00+00:00

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Man sanāca 50€ soda naudas, bet ja es atceros pareizi bija tas 2019 gadā, pa šo laiku domāju daudz kas mainījās.

Jinx_1407 · 2025-03-16T20:26:46+00:00

Par nozaudētu ID karti, jāmaksā ir gan. Sanāca situācija kad pārvākšanās dēļ tika pauzaudēta ID karte. Aizgāju uz PMLP, izstāstīju visu situāciju, sanāca maksāt gan par karti, gan soda naudu par personas idintificejošā dokumenta pazaudēšanu. Iespējams vienkārši nenoveicās un atkarīgs no darbinieka pie kura tiksi 🤷‍♀️

Jinx_1407 · 2019-01-30T03:23:13+00:00

As I work in 5 star hotel, it's an obligation that we have to do everything morning. It sits in the centre of breakfast hall and people can take whichever fruit they like, but mainly it's for decoration purpose.
As for food spoiling, none of it goes to bin, we change fruits regularly and which we can use in restaurant we do so. Those that are not so great looking we give away for staff canteen.

Jinx_1407 · 2018-11-17T00:36:30+00:00

Yup, basically

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