“我得到过的最好建议”精选集

大厨、作家、卧底、美国旅游频道《波登不设限》和《波登过境》的节目主持人。

    上世纪80年代末，我刚刚跨过人生中的一道坎。我刚刚摆脱了毒瘾，几乎葬送了我整个职业生涯的前半段和专业厨师形象。我在我职业生涯最初的一位雇主那里找到了一份做午餐厨师的工作。在我的《厨房机密档案》（Kitchen Confidential）一书中，我称他为“大脚兽”。他给我的建议也是一项命令。他说：“如果你打算为我干活，最重要的事情是要准时。也就是说，你要在当班前15分钟到。如果当班前14分钟到，你就回家吧，没有薪水。”时至今日，我做任何事都再也不迟到。这项要求——尊重同事和雇主，至少按时上班——给我的生活带来了巨大变化。后来等我走上正轨，再次成为一名大厨，以及自己当上老板之后，我向人们强调的最重要事情就是准时。做实际工作必备的技能是可以传授的。我的节目组人员都知道，如果预订8点在河内拍摄一场市场场景，8点差5分我就在酒店大堂等他们了。我信奉身先士卒。在我看来，如果有人像我一样，能有幸每天都与美酒佳肴打交道，还要迟到？那可真是太不可理喻了。我的行为，我的到场时间树立了标杆。如果我每天准时到场，其他人也会准时到场。

Anthony Bourdain

Chef, author, provocateur, host of Travel Channel'sNo Reservations and The Layover

    Back in the late 1980s, I was emerging from a rough patch in my life. I was a recovering drug addict. I pretty much torched the first half of my career and anything resembling a professional reputation as a chef. I got a job as a lunch cook for an employer I had worked with at the very beginning of my career. I call him Bigfoot in my bookKitchen Confidential. His advice to me was an order. He said, "If you're going to work for me, the most important thing is that you show up on time. Meaning 15 minutes before you are due to begin your shift. If you arrive 14 minutes before your shift, you will be sent home without pay." To this day, I am never late for anything. That requirement to show your co-workers and employer the respect to at least show up on time made a huge difference in my life. When I later got my shit together and became a chef once again and an employer myself, the most important thing that I would pound into people was arrival time. The skills necessary to do the actual job can be taught. Everybody on my show understands that if it's an 8 a.m. call to shoot a market scene in Hanoi, I will be in the lobby waiting for them at five minutes of eight. I believe in leading from the front. It is unthinkable to me for anyone lucky enough to do what I do for a living -- shove food and liquor in my face -- to be late. My behavior as far as arrival time sets a tone. If I'm there on time every day, people show up on time too.