As a cook on a boat, I have come to understand a lot of people have a eating problem... They do think that they are entitled to eat ALL they want no matter how rude it is, who it hurts or who they cause to not get any. They are only out to fill up and somehow, they never do get full! On the boat, when they walk on there, it is no longer THEIR problem, it is MINE! I am suppose to know before they get there that they are coming, I am suppose to know If I always cooked a 5# roasts before, I need to cook 10# of roast now even though the budget and freezer space won't cover it. I am suppose to know where I cook a pound of bacon for breakfast, I am now suppose to cook 2# so they can eat a whole pound by themselves and the other pound is for the rest of the crew. I am suppose to know in advance, what food they are going to target and clean us out of overnight, their response..."Next time order MORE!".... but they can never tell you how much is enough or that the next night, they will want to clean us out of something else.

Right now I have a guy that eats 12 to 14 of my homemade cookies at a time, 2 to 3 times a day. Nobody else gets any but he don't care. Everybody complains that they never get any but 1 or 2 and then they are all gone. Since I only bake 36 at a time, they don't even last a day and I simply don't have time to cook all you can eat for one person and enough for the entire rest of the crew to get some. This guy eats HALF of however many mashed potatoes I make, leaving the other half for the rest of the crew (8 people) to share. He thinks he is entitled to it and I just need to make more the next time. They think they are entitled to over rule the Captains orders to stay in the budget and the budget the company sets for us to follow. I had one guy tell me to hell with the budget, he wanted steaks twice a week and half of the pork chops I cook when I cooked them..... Sorry, but the Captian gives me orders and if I don't follow them, he CAN fire me. The COMPANY tells me I have to stay in budget and if I don't, THEY will fire me so who do you think I am going to listen to? YOUR eating problem is YOUR problem, NOT MINE!