b"get a city job; to this day, I tell people get a city job, just work for the City. The Teamsters are the best,everybody want tobe a Teamster. People walk up to me: Hey brother youre recognized all over. Can you tell me about a typical day or week on the job?I, and being a cook, didnt take lunch hours a lot of times. I wanted to make sure the food was just right. When I gotto work, I would set up, look at the schedule, see my assignment, get my food together, turn on the pots, get the steamergoing, and season the food. You just set up what you have to do for your assignment that day. If it's turkey, each cookwould get three or four turkeys. You bone it, then you cut it and separate it, put it in the pan, put your sauce on it, put it inthe warmer until you're ready to serve it. You do your veggie, then you pan it up, you put it on the truck so it can be delivered to the dietary way. You roll the trucks out, and the people who serve bring the trucks upstairs. That's for peoplefrom Local 420. They take the trucks upstairs and deliver the food. It all depends on what the head cook assigned you todo. You might make the rice or the green vegetable. It's big bulk, you had the big pots.That sounds like a lunch or a dinner. Did you do breakfast as well?No, I didn't do breakfast. I was a dinner cook.Did you have more than one dinner to prepare?Oh yeah. Some people can't eat solid food so someone has to puree the food.That's another person's job. You havea regular diet, soft diet, low sodium, and all that. I would do those dinners too if I was assigned. Basically, I did cooking.Then I started making the sandwiches. I moved around. I worked the grill. When I left, they say: Fox, when you left, theyhired two people to do your job. The director would try to move me. Every time I look around, I was in the personnel's office. Why Mr. Fox, what did you do? Nothing and they tried really hard to get me out of there because I was the shopsteward. They wanted to do what they wanted to do with the people, but I would say: You can't do that. If somebodycame to me with a complaint, I'll complain.Was that problematic?Being a shop steward wasn't easy. The personnel director kind of had to straighten it out: Why are you on Mr. Fox all the time? They finally whited out my evaluation, I had a great evaluation and the people in the front office said: How come a person with an evaluation like this is not a head cook? A dietary said, I gave you a great evaluation, butshe whited it out, but don't tell her I told you that, 'cause she'll fire me. You see the director there and I didn't get along.I got along with everybody in the hospital, but the director. It was because I was the shop steward.Did the union ever have to go to bat for you for these problems?The personnel director did it. I didn't complain to the union about this. If I would have, I think the person would havelost their job.Why didn't you complain to the union?Oh, I don't know, I did the job I was supposed to do. The union came a couple times and they suggested that this128 "