My elementary lunch lady was so kind to me. I had switched schools a few times in first grade and it was so hard! She was the first person that really made eye contact with me on that first day and could tell i was having a rough time. It made all the difference just to have someone take a second to just acknowledge my feelings then. Once we got to know each other better she made sure to stash a chocolate milk for me in case they ran out. Thank you Ms Rachel, wherever you ended up, I hope your life is amazing!
The lunch lady at my elementary school was the best. One year I had a really bad panic attack during field day and had to sit in the office most of the day because I Could Not Handle the chaos of all the games and whatnot, and she came in to make sure I got an extra ice cream treat because she was worried about me and wanted to make me feel better.
I remember begging my mom for school lunch. So finally one day she broke down and gave me 35 cents (I’m 67 now) and said “hope this is the last time you ask”. And it was. I thought it would be like eating in a restaurant. Boy was I wrong. Dry slice of bread, something that had coagulated long past it’s prime, some brown apple slices and a warm carton of milk. And the lunch ladies were scary. Somehow my mind sees them with a cigarette hanging out the corner of their mouths.
Your experiences are valid. I think too often in TV shows, lunch folks are seen and shown as crabby because it's apparently a shameful or bad job to be working in a cafeteria, when it's pretty similar to any other chef job. Plus, dealing with entitled folks, children, adults, ect, can be pretty draining and lead anyone to possibly becoming jaded. And while I don't imagine it was too long ago, when you were a kid, lunch folks weren't often treated very well, because of their position, which lead to this cycle of being a lunch server being seen as shameful, which would lead to more poor treatment. Hopefully, as humanity matures, this cycle will fade out
I used to be on the “lunch lady crew!” The district I worked for had a food truck that went around to a handful of high schools in the district (one school each day). It was so awesome and the kids thought it was so cool to get to eat from a food truck on campus. Anyway, that was one of my most favorite jobs! Our crew was awesome and even on the most stressful days, we always had a great time!
I hope this doesn't sound weird but I would love to meet you in person someday, Ms. Chang just so I could give you a hug and thank you in person for always trying to be the change that you want to see in the world. For creating a space all day long that's safe for children and then coming on here and giving me not only a smile and a good feeling but something that makes me want to do better and be better 🙂God Bless!
I'm so glad you realized the lunch crew isn't all crazy haired ladies that slap your food in a plastic tray and go on about their business or grunt and do that too. I loved my lunch ladies. They always took good care of us kids who didn't have much and need a little extra food.
I am 51 years old and still remember the lunch ladies names. Even knew where one of them lived ( right behind the grade school, over the fence, one of the nicest people ever. The grade school was full of low income students and lunch meant a lot to us. The creamed turkey over mashed potatoes was always the highlight during the winter times.
I am 44 years old and I have memories of my middle school lunch ladies being cranky as well. However, there was one lady that was sweet as can be. Her name was Ms. Annette and she was a wonderful soul. All the ladies who worked in our Cafeteria were middle aged and had to put up with a bunch of thankless kids all day, so I can understand why they were cranky.
My most recent job was as a lunch lady and I completely understand where you are coming from . I used to get school lunches when I was little and some lunch ladies were nicer then others. When I was working as a food service worker there I had fantastic co workers who were just like the ladies you spoke about and some may not of been the kindest. We always loved kind respectful teachers like yourself . 😁
My lunch lady was really nice. Mrs. Noble was great. She was my 6th grade teacher's mom. She would always send him up a big lunch. He was 6' 6 1/2" and thin. In the afternoon, he would sneak what he didn't eat to the dumpster. He didn't want to hurt her feelings. I loved them both.
This is a great story and a good reminder that we all have prejudices that run deep, and any day is a good idea to reevaluate those, because it may just be a problem of perception.
I've been a lunch lady for 24yrs... and I want to thank u so much for doing this.. I'm the chaos organizer ( manger) for my team and I can tell u we have a blast in our kitchen. I felt the same way when I 1st started.. It was supposed to be something I could do to co inside with my children's school schedule. I hope you have a fabulous summer break!!
Not mine! My gosh we LOVED our lunch ladies. Home cooking! Mommas and lovely. One took me home to teach me how to can green beans when I complimented hers. Loved, loved, loved them. Thank you Mrs. Burchett.❤❤❤❤❤
The elementary school I went to was notorious for how good their lunches were. People from all over the county would hold their meetings at that school so they could have their lunches in Mrs. Pearson's cafeteria. I sometimes ate there when I was in high school because I would get out at 12:30, walk to the elementary school, and stay as a volunteer till my niece was out and then walk her home. If they were still serving when I got there, I would eat lunch. I still remember her molasses oatmeal cookies with a nostalgia akin to mourning.
It's common for autistic people to have anxiety when needing to do something new. It doesn't change when we grow up. (But we get better at rationalizing like you did. ;) )
I just think for those of us who are a little older, for some reason had the same experience with lunch crew. I finally got over it with my youngest child was in elementary and I never had enough $ for their lunch card and she would always provide my son with a hot lunch when the school required them to have a simple wrapped sandwich if they didn’t have $ on their card. They were son kind and even when they got in trouble for it, still continued to not make my son suffer. Gosh those years were hard but we’re good now😊
Cafeteria workers are unsung heroes. Too many time, they provide the only meal a child will receive that day. I dont mean to trauma dump, but as someone whose life was saved from traumatic abuse by my kindergarten teacher and who ate because a so properly named cafeteria woman named Ms. Heart, I have a special place in my heart my teachers and cafeteria workers. ❤❤❤
The lunch ladies were crabby at my schools, too. Then, when I went out in the work force, there was a witch of a cafeteria lady! 😄 But, I lived and maturity made me more understanding.
My kiddos schools, all three different schools, have a whole day that they dedicate to the lunch crew and after school clean up crew. All the kids know the lunch staff by name and absolutely love them like they do the teachers. It wasn't like this for me as a kid. When I had children and started working on the PTO I found this out and was so excited. These folks are our other parents away from home and my goodness, they love these kids and know all their names and even know the things they like and dislike to eat. Shout out to all school staff. These folks are our children's saving grace home away from home!!!
Hahaha as a lunch lady, I find this very sweet. To this day I have some children who are afraid to approach us. Theres obviously the good and the bad in every career, so it only makes sense that people might carry their experiences with them! No harm in being honest and addressing it. I'm glad you appreciate us, and we appreciate you!!
You are too much fun and spot on! I'm an elementary PE teaching assistant in Las Vegas. It drops to 60 degrees and these kids wear every piece of clothing they have to school and peal it off as the day goes on. The lost and found pile in our lunch room is a mountain.
I always had a great lunch crew at my schools, but they never provided lunch for field trips. It was a brown paper bag or nothing. I love that your school does that!
The bigger issue here is that Ms. Chang is modelling the process of recognizing when you are wrong and having the humility to acknowledge it, both to yourself and to others.
I just started following you and I absolutely love this channel :-) you and your family are awesome. What a breath of fresh air ❤ I really love this shirt all y’all :-) I’m a southerner myself from South Carolina and was wondering where you got it from
I was a kitchen manager for 7 years at my local schools. We did the same thing. I was told by my oldest son's friends when they were in high school that I wasn't allowed to quit until they graduated 😂
I think this is a huge misconception b/c school lunch ladies are always portrayed in movies/tv-shows as being grumpy so we adopt that at an early age & it carries with us 😂🤣 I thought the same thing!
Kids are so impressionable! I treated people, and had assumptions and opinions about certain groups of people based off of my mothers treatment, assumptions and opinions. Boy was THAT wrong. I have since changed and I no longer do that. I wait and get to know people and judge them off the behavior they show me as an INDIVIDUAL 👍🏻 making sure to give them lots of chances to be kind and respectful or come out of their shell. Sometimes people have bad days, or past trauma etc etc 🤷🏻♀️
I work in the cafeteria and I would not trade it for the world I love feed all the kids and getting to cook every day it is the best job I could have asked for
I did a 4 yr culinary program in highschool. The 4th year you get to work with a chef. We would prepare food for catering events and make the teachers SIMPLE lunches but still, it wasn't "school food" And I remember thinking the same thing as a kid but they were so cool and a cpl used to help cator, along with myself, for the chef when he had outside events
I once had a lunch lady that was super crabby at a school I worked at. But for the most part they are super nice and I work at multiple schools. Although in my district unless they are the head lunch lady, many don’t stay for long and end up quitting.
At my high school there was the coolest lunch lady ever, Janice. She wore these pajama pants all the time w hot peppers on them so she was nicknamed “hot pepper pants” ❤
It just takes one sour apple to spoil the bunch. I’m 44 and had both nice and crabby lunch ladies growing up. My great aunt worked in the school cafeteria where I went to kindergarten at so she looked after me.
Why are there a bunch of videos missing?? What happened? I was going to show my sons teacher a video and I can't find it. By the way she is a really good friend now. Love your videos.
Lunchlady Land by Adam Sandler basically sums up my experience, with the cafeteria staff back in the day. Now, years later, I've realized that Sloppy Joe's are hella delicious, and the lunch ladies were mean bc kids often suck at being nice to them🤣🤷
😅😅😅 She's afraid of the lunch, ladies... oh no is't the trunch bold 😅😅😅 I think that's hilarious. I worked in the cafeteria both in elementary school and in high school. Now, mind you, Ms. Chang and I are both 50 the exact same age. I loved our lunch ladies they were so fun and so cool. Shout out to the lunch ladies out there, hugs, and l❤ves for all you do!!!😅😅😅😅 Ms. Chang, you slay me once again. Thanks for making this video. I'm glad you got over your lunch, lady fobia. Sorry you were a little traumatized as a kid. IT'S GOOD !!❤❤😂😂
My ex MIL used to work part time with the lunch staff. She always called it her kitchen creature job. Definitely made me laugh, and gender neutral, but probably better to make sure it’s okay with someone before you call them a kitchen creature 🤭
Our school had the best home made lunches...I mean homemade..You could literally smell yeast rising for yeast rolls or cinnamon rolls..I don't know what happened but I don't think it's that way anymore.
Romans 10:13 13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. John 3:16 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 1 John 1:9 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
I can relate❣️ Had my own self discovery moment regarding unconscious bias recently via typical corporate mandate annual work video… Though somewhere in this representation things reminded me of me…. i recognized a change in my demeanor in certain circumstances…. and my negative attitude only sets the course for more negative interactions…. Since, I’ve sought to be more open and kind… accepting…. No preconceived notions….. and I’m super grateful! Blessings to you and your wife, the young minds you are helping to sculpt and i can’t not mention lima bean kid 🫶😂
My elementary lunch lady was so kind to me. I had switched schools a few times in first grade and it was so hard! She was the first person that really made eye contact with me on that first day and could tell i was having a rough time. It made all the difference just to have someone take a second to just acknowledge my feelings then. Once we got to know each other better she made sure to stash a chocolate milk for me in case they ran out. Thank you Ms Rachel, wherever you ended up, I hope your life is amazing!
Love this
Someone in my family is named Rachel and they used to work as a lunch person. I wonder if it's them
IMO the custodial & cafeteria staff are the hardest working & most underappreciated folks in a school.
The lunch lady at my elementary school was the best. One year I had a really bad panic attack during field day and had to sit in the office most of the day because I Could Not Handle the chaos of all the games and whatnot, and she came in to make sure I got an extra ice cream treat because she was worried about me and wanted to make me feel better.
I remember begging my mom for school lunch. So finally one day she broke down and gave me 35 cents (I’m 67 now) and said “hope this is the last time you ask”. And it was. I thought it would be like eating in a restaurant. Boy was I wrong. Dry slice of bread, something that had coagulated long past it’s prime, some brown apple slices and a warm carton of milk. And the lunch ladies were scary. Somehow my mind sees them with a cigarette hanging out the corner of their mouths.
Your experiences are valid. I think too often in TV shows, lunch folks are seen and shown as crabby because it's apparently a shameful or bad job to be working in a cafeteria, when it's pretty similar to any other chef job. Plus, dealing with entitled folks, children, adults, ect, can be pretty draining and lead anyone to possibly becoming jaded. And while I don't imagine it was too long ago, when you were a kid, lunch folks weren't often treated very well, because of their position, which lead to this cycle of being a lunch server being seen as shameful, which would lead to more poor treatment. Hopefully, as humanity matures, this cycle will fade out
I used to be on the “lunch lady crew!” The district I worked for had a food truck that went around to a handful of high schools in the district (one school each day). It was so awesome and the kids thought it was so cool to get to eat from a food truck on campus. Anyway, that was one of my most favorite jobs! Our crew was awesome and even on the most stressful days, we always had a great time!
That is awesome!
I hope this doesn't sound weird but I would love to meet you in person someday, Ms. Chang just so I could give you a hug and thank you in person for always trying to be the change that you want to see in the world. For creating a space all day long that's safe for children and then coming on here and giving me not only a smile and a good feeling but something that makes me want to do better and be better 🙂God Bless!
I appreciate this
I'm so glad you realized the lunch crew isn't all crazy haired ladies that slap your food in a plastic tray and go on about their business or grunt and do that too. I loved my lunch ladies. They always took good care of us kids who didn't have much and need a little extra food.
I am 51 years old and still remember the lunch ladies names. Even knew where one of them lived ( right behind the grade school, over the fence, one of the nicest people ever. The grade school was full of low income students and lunch meant a lot to us. The creamed turkey over mashed potatoes was always the highlight during the winter times.
I am 44 years old and I have memories of my middle school lunch ladies being cranky as well. However, there was one lady that was sweet as can be. Her name was Ms. Annette and she was a wonderful soul. All the ladies who worked in our Cafeteria were middle aged and had to put up with a bunch of thankless kids all day, so I can understand why they were cranky.
You digressing is so relatable. I can’t tell any form of story with out telling at least 3 mini stories well doing so.
Thanks for your transparency & vulnerability! ❤
I am a lunch lady in an elementary school and I love it. Glad you were finally able to meet your lunch crew.
My most recent job was as a lunch lady and I completely understand where you are coming from . I used to get school lunches when I was little and some lunch ladies were nicer then others. When I was working as a food service worker there I had fantastic co workers who were just like the ladies you spoke about and some may not of been the kindest. We always loved kind respectful teachers like yourself . 😁
My lunch lady was really nice. Mrs. Noble was great. She was my 6th grade teacher's mom. She would always send him up a big lunch. He was 6' 6 1/2" and thin. In the afternoon, he would sneak what he didn't eat to the dumpster. He didn't want to hurt her feelings. I loved them both.
This is a great story and a good reminder that we all have prejudices that run deep, and any day is a good idea to reevaluate those, because it may just be a problem of perception.
I've been a lunch lady for 24yrs... and I want to thank u so much for doing this.. I'm the chaos organizer ( manger) for my team and I can tell u we have a blast in our kitchen. I felt the same way when I 1st started.. It was supposed to be something I could do to co inside with my children's school schedule. I hope you have a fabulous summer break!!
Not mine! My gosh we LOVED our lunch ladies. Home cooking! Mommas and lovely. One took me home to teach me how to can green beans when I complimented hers. Loved, loved, loved them. Thank you Mrs. Burchett.❤❤❤❤❤
You can be grown and still have anxiety over tiny things just because! You're so cute!❤
The elementary school I went to was notorious for how good their lunches were. People from all over the county would hold their meetings at that school so they could have their lunches in Mrs. Pearson's cafeteria. I sometimes ate there when I was in high school because I would get out at 12:30, walk to the elementary school, and stay as a volunteer till my niece was out and then walk her home. If they were still serving when I got there, I would eat lunch. I still remember her molasses oatmeal cookies with a nostalgia akin to mourning.
It's common for autistic people to have anxiety when needing to do something new. It doesn't change when we grow up. (But we get better at rationalizing like you did. ;) )
I just think for those of us who are a little older, for some reason had the same experience with lunch crew. I finally got over it with my youngest child was in elementary and I never had enough $ for their lunch card and she would always provide my son with a hot lunch when the school required them to have a simple wrapped sandwich if they didn’t have $ on their card.
They were son kind and even when they got in trouble for it, still continued to not make my son suffer. Gosh those years were hard but we’re good now😊
Cafeteria workers are unsung heroes. Too many time, they provide the only meal a child will receive that day. I dont mean to trauma dump, but as someone whose life was saved from traumatic abuse by my kindergarten teacher and who ate because a so properly named cafeteria woman named Ms. Heart, I have a special place in my heart my teachers and cafeteria workers. ❤❤❤
The lunch ladies were crabby at my schools, too. Then, when I went out in the work force, there was a witch of a cafeteria lady! 😄 But, I lived and maturity made me more understanding.
My kiddos schools, all three different schools, have a whole day that they dedicate to the lunch crew and after school clean up crew. All the kids know the lunch staff by name and absolutely love them like they do the teachers. It wasn't like this for me as a kid. When I had children and started working on the PTO I found this out and was so excited. These folks are our other parents away from home and my goodness, they love these kids and know all their names and even know the things they like and dislike to eat. Shout out to all school staff. These folks are our children's saving grace home away from home!!!
Hahaha as a lunch lady, I find this very sweet. To this day I have some children who are afraid to approach us. Theres obviously the good and the bad in every career, so it only makes sense that people might carry their experiences with them! No harm in being honest and addressing it. I'm glad you appreciate us, and we appreciate you!!
You are too much fun and spot on! I'm an elementary PE teaching assistant in Las Vegas. It drops to 60 degrees and these kids wear every piece of clothing they have to school and peal it off as the day goes on. The lost and found pile in our lunch room is a mountain.
I feel like I am either incredibly kind or completely closed off all based on anxiety and past experience. Great video.
I always had a great lunch crew at my schools, but they never provided lunch for field trips. It was a brown paper bag or nothing. I love that your school does that!
I love this lady's spirit 😍
The bigger issue here is that Ms. Chang is modelling the process of recognizing when you are wrong and having the humility to acknowledge it, both to yourself and to others.
ya be a mad funny dame
Oh my gosh, I subscribe cause you never fail to make me laugh!😂❤
I just started following you and I absolutely love this channel :-) you and your family are awesome. What a breath of fresh air ❤ I really love this shirt all y’all :-) I’m a southerner myself from South Carolina and was wondering where you got it from
I was a kitchen manager for 7 years at my local schools. We did the same thing. I was told by my oldest son's friends when they were in high school that I wasn't allowed to quit until they graduated 😂
Nice enjoy your field trip😊
I think this is a huge misconception b/c school lunch ladies are always portrayed in movies/tv-shows as being grumpy so we adopt that at an early age & it carries with us 😂🤣 I thought the same thing!
Lunch crew is super hard work. Sending love. ❤
I can’t imagine try to feed lots of folks especially kids
Kids are so impressionable! I treated people, and had assumptions and opinions about certain groups of people based off of my mothers treatment, assumptions and opinions. Boy was THAT wrong. I have since changed and I no longer do that. I wait and get to know people and judge them off the behavior they show me as an INDIVIDUAL 👍🏻 making sure to give them lots of chances to be kind and respectful or come out of their shell. Sometimes people have bad days, or past trauma etc etc 🤷🏻♀️
I work in the cafeteria and I would not trade it for the world I love feed all the kids and getting to cook every day it is the best job I could have asked for
I love this 😀
This is so nice. It sounds fun and fulfilling
u are not alone ours was the same in the uk
I did a 4 yr culinary program in highschool. The 4th year you get to work with a chef. We would prepare food for catering events and make the teachers SIMPLE lunches but still, it wasn't "school food"
And I remember thinking the same thing as a kid but they were so cool and a cpl used to help cator, along with myself, for the chef when he had outside events
I got lucky as my great aunt was working in the cafeteria when I was in high school, so I was always treated well.
I loved my lunch ladies they are super nice
I once had a lunch lady that was super crabby at a school I worked at. But for the most part they are super nice and I work at multiple schools. Although in my district unless they are the head lunch lady, many don’t stay for long and end up quitting.
At my high school there was the coolest lunch lady ever, Janice. She wore these pajama pants all the time w hot peppers on them so she was nicknamed “hot pepper pants” ❤
i had this exact same experience with dentists!
It just takes one sour apple to spoil the bunch. I’m 44 and had both nice and crabby lunch ladies growing up. My great aunt worked in the school cafeteria where I went to kindergarten at so she looked after me.
You are super sweet. ❤
Why are there a bunch of videos missing?? What happened? I was going to show my sons teacher a video and I can't find it. By the way she is a really good friend now. Love your videos.
I never ate school lunch as a kid because the food looked terrible lol. It looked like Macaroni and paste.
Lunchlady Land by Adam Sandler basically sums up my experience, with the cafeteria staff back in the day. Now, years later, I've realized that Sloppy Joe's are hella delicious, and the lunch ladies were mean bc kids often suck at being nice to them🤣🤷
😅😅😅 She's afraid of the lunch, ladies... oh no is't the trunch bold 😅😅😅 I think that's hilarious. I worked in the cafeteria both in elementary school and in high school. Now, mind you, Ms. Chang and I are both 50 the exact same age. I loved our lunch ladies they were so fun and so cool. Shout out to the lunch ladies out there, hugs, and
l❤ves for all you do!!!😅😅😅😅
Ms. Chang, you slay me once again. Thanks for making this video. I'm glad you got over your lunch, lady fobia. Sorry you were a little traumatized as a kid. IT'S GOOD !!❤❤😂😂
When I was in high school in the 60s the lunch ladies were all mean and crabby.
My ex MIL used to work part time with the lunch staff. She always called it her kitchen creature job. Definitely made me laugh, and gender neutral, but probably better to make sure it’s okay with someone before you call them a kitchen creature 🤭
at the care home i worked at they where grouchy now under new management the ladies are sweet as pie
Our school had the best home made lunches...I mean homemade..You could literally smell yeast rising for yeast rolls or cinnamon rolls..I don't know what happened but I don't think it's that way anymore.
Here's wishing... don't judge people based on your few experiences, with a few people 😉
My experience goes back to the 60s and early 70s. You were at the mercy of whoever was in charge of the lunch room. No consistency. It was a fiefdom.
WOW early!
Stamptasic are fantastic for labelling school cloths and belonging
hii
Romans 10:13
13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
John 3:16
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
1 John 1:9
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
I can relate❣️ Had my own self discovery moment regarding unconscious bias recently via typical corporate mandate annual work video… Though somewhere in this representation things reminded me of me…. i recognized a change in my demeanor in certain circumstances…. and my negative attitude only sets the course for more negative interactions…. Since, I’ve sought to be more open and kind… accepting…. No preconceived notions….. and I’m super grateful! Blessings to you and your wife, the young minds you are helping to sculpt and i can’t not mention lima bean kid 🫶😂