Do you want to eat food cooked by shallow-minded, evil-hearted Japs? Do you want to eat food cooked by Jap chefs who don't even respect a person, let alone respect the customer?
The last, small unit at the back of Japan Food Town.
If you want to experience age discrimination for being over 40, go to Osaka Kitchen. They will make sure to sneer at you, even though the chefs themselves are already in their 30-40s.
Since they love age discrimination so much, they should go back to Japan!! Why are they in Singapore? They are not even grateful to their host country for allowing them to work here! How dare they sneer at a citizen of their host country.
Come to Singapore bringing their shitty Ageist mentality. No benefit to Singaporeans at all!! Why did Singapore immigration even allow them in?
Likely due to age discrimination in Japan, these Japs can't find jobs & have no choice but to haul their pale, aged asses here.
Since they love age discrimination so much, why don't they also do it to the customers?! Take people's money when in fact, they are harbouring disrespectful, ageist mentality.
No wonder one reviewer said the chefs are rude.
Initially, I thought maybe it was just a case of 1 reviewer. Even so, because of that review, I avoided going to Osaka Kitchen for an interview despite their advertised pay.
For weeks, the Osaka Kitchen job advertisement has been staying up on the job site. When an ad keeps staying up, it means something is wrong. Either they are picky. Or nobody wants the job.
Since the advertised pay is attractive, it can only mean that there's something wrong with the establishment.
You know why in the Osaka Kitchen reviews, the servers are rude? Because the manager is rude. When the head is shit, the rest is also shit.
With my broke situation & with their ad always up, my need for money won. I decided to take a chance. Kitchen crew typically don't need to be teenagers, right?
For the record, I look younger than my age. I move fast & am stronger than I look. I swim the Butterfly stroke. I appear pleasant-looking & approachable. With a fresh cut of my hair that takes 10-20 years off my face, previous day at another interview, the male interviewer in his 20-30s had called me "Miss".
I was quite expecting this interview to go well.
How was I to know that these Japs are so horny, they even need Kitchen Crew to look like Jap porn stars?
You know how long it takes to walk from Harbourfront area to Orchard Road? 2 hours. More than 5.6 km. I call it "road march" like the army guys.
It was luckily a chilly & windy day. You know that coldest weather for the first time in Singapore?
I wore a thick hoodie & only a drop of sweat dripped down my neck closer towards Orchard.
When I finally arrived, the last unit was dark. Closed because I didn't make it in time before they closed their first half of the split shift.
The bar counter joins the back corner that functions as a standing kitchen. The place is so small, I didn't want to work there just by looking at the "kitchen". Since they are closed, I considered the restaurant across & wondered if maybe I should try there.
Then told myself that since I've come all this way, might as well wait for the interview.
I saw a waiter sitting at a table inside & walked in to ask when the manager would be coming in later. He stood with a reluctant reaction while taking off his earphones & waved over the table.
That's when I noticed a dark form shifting on the bench. That's the manager??
Above the dark form on the bench, another dark form shifted. Two persons??
The manager raised his head & loosely waved a gloved hand.
I said to the waiter, "I'll come back later?".
The waiter turned to me & said, "Yes, later.".
I said, "Around 5pm?".
He tossed a rude "Yeah." while turning back to sit down & plugging in his earphones.
That was already a bad sign. The manager & some other crew sleeping on the bench. And this rude waiter.
At 4.45pm, I returned to see the lights were on. The japs were already pottering behind the bar counter.
I went in with a friendly raise of my hand. "Hi." I said.
The Jap chef behind the counter looked at me with a friendly smile but didn't seem to realize that I had come earlier. So I said I was here for the interview.
The young waitress (quite pretty) who had come forwards thinking that I might be a customer, smiled uncertainly at me even while realizing that I was an applicant. This is the first time a potential colleague smiles at me when I walk into an interview.
The chef behind the counter immediately realized & passed another Jap man a folder. That Jap man was standing outside the bar counter & he is the manager because his hand was wearing the glove.
It seemed a friendly, lively start.
The manager, still wearing his glove on his left hand, asked me to take a seat at the bar counter while he took the seat beside.
Some usual questions were asked. Everything seemed fine.
Throughout, I just had the natural tendency to reply "Hai" when speaking with Japs. Who knows what evil sneers they must have been having.
The chefs seemed like they were fun & nice people. I noticed the chef behind the counter seemed to be pottering with work when in fact, he was hovering close by with very keen hearing (eavesdropping on the interview).
Then the manager asked, "What is your age?".
I instantly felt uncomfortable & said, "40 something.". And since he was about to request for clarification, I gave him the exact number.
The chef who had been eavesdropping, exclaimed my year of birth, "19xx?" with a look of surprise.
In hindsight, it was actually a disgusted look, as if I had just burst his bubble of illusion.
Thinking that perhaps he was pleasantly surprised (in a positive way), I nodded with a sound of affirmation.
The eavesdropping chef just turned away with switch off look.
I turned to the manager beside me & asked, "Why?" (meaning why the surprise at my year of birth). When he didn't reply & continued writing on his piece of paper, I asked again, "Why?".
Without looking at me while writing, the manager replied in a very detached voice, "Nothing.".
I felt it was age discrimination.
The way they reacted was not positive. Their thoughts were dark. If they had good intentions, they should be saying, "Oh, you look so young.". Not "Nothing." with that cold, switch-off reaction.
The manager then continued interviewing with a very practised way of leading me to think that I might seriously be hired. Very good liar when in fact, they already decided they are not hiring just because of my age.
He even talked about needing to help out outside the "kitchen" when it gets busy. And when I asked about cooking, he irresponsibly said that in time I can do the Teppanyaki cooking.
Don't be ridiculous, I thought. The Japs have been flown in from Japan to cook. And here he is saying I can take over?? When I asked about cooking, I meant cooking in the "kitchen".
He could say anything because he had no intention of hiring.
Earlier, he had asked me when I can start work & I gave him my schedule (which is everyday starting Wed night).
Despite offering up all my days that no applicant would do, he said at the end, "If ok, will contact you to come on Wed night.".
The fact that he said "If ok" means he isn't hiring, isn't calling. It's a waste-of-time, malicious fakery that I notice F&B managers use. Evil-hearted. They make the applicant wait for nothing & hope for nothing. They waste the applicant's time.
If they really want to hire, they wouldn't say "If". They will hire on the spot.
They say "If ok" so that it excuses them from not hiring. They waste the applicant's time & they don't care. Very irresponsible, dishonest & evil-hearted tactic.
You dare to eat food cooked by such people?
If they don't want to hire, don't waste further time pretending to want to hire. If they are afraid the applicant might make noise on the spot, just be considerate in providing the shortest time that the applicant should wait for an answer. This is the correct, honest way.
Instead of doing this, many F&B interviewers will fake their way through with no intention of hiring & let the applicant hang for days.
In this case, Osaka Kitchen has no intention of hiring. There is also no urgency to hire because it obvious they already have enough staff in that tiny space that they call a "restaurant".
Earlier when the manager asked me when is the earliest I can start & I said Wed, he had said, "Next Wednesday?".
Why would he say "next" Wed if he needs staff? I thought it was odd for him to say that. I was thinking, "Of course, it's this Wed. Why would it be more than 1 week away?".
I offer all my days for work & favourable in appearance & can start soonest. But just because of my age, they don't hire. How stupid these Japs are. Very immature & unprofessional.
Here's the review from the customer I mentioned above: Click to enlarge.
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