Glide: Working washing dishes

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In a moment of sporadic randomness, the head lady who works in the dishwashing facility, a black woman of substantial age, asked for my help- actually it was more of a command than simple request.  She asked me to help her wash dishes, cups, etc... The dishwashing room is a tiny humid foxhole at the opposite end of the kitchen past the large dining area.  I agreed to helping her although it's not like I had much of a choice; I'm only there to help and be of service to others.
       I've done this type of work before, so it's not like I'm a neophyte in this line of work. The last restaurant I worked in, I occasionally helped the dishwasher at the end of the night with the remaining wretchedly dirty dishes, pots, pans, silverware, trays, containers, and every other utensil used by a human being. This hot and hellish chamber is the asshole of the restaurant.  Not only is it located near the back, but also serves to be the landfill for unfinished portions of food and the squalidness of it all amounts to human waste- consumption's whore. The humidity is nearly unbearable. It's a box that traps heat, waste, and the stench of human sweat yet this Tartarus of a room and laborer performs an indispensable function like any other component in a well oiled machine, and without him it would be a shitty mess- a shitter that stops flushing.  I've seen men's hands turn coarse and gradually erode to a state of flaccidness.  The abrasive metal sponge and scorching hot water, replete with sanitizing chemicals, all contributes to the slow wither demise of the hands, and a laborer who loses the use of his hands loses purpose.
      Glide's dishwashing chamber differs significantly from those built inside most restaurants.  The machine itself that cleans and sanitizes looks like a small replica of a gigantic real life car wash mechanical beast with all the pre set phases included. The dirty trays, silverware, and containers are first rinsed using a pressurized sprayer then sent into the mouth of the metal beast where the process to make pristine is utilized. Once that's finished, it exits through the back end of the mechanism looking nearly new yet wet like a pornstar's vag. This phase is repeated at least a couple times until I've gathered sufficient trays to transfer to the person who transports all clean objects to the front of the assembly line, like a fucking well oiled machine, the initial stage of the cycle....