大廚、作家、臥底、美國旅游頻道《波登不設(shè)限》和《波登過境》的節(jié)目主持人。

????上世紀(jì)80年代末，我剛剛跨過人生中的一道坎。我剛剛擺脫了毒癮，幾乎葬送了我整個職業(yè)生涯的前半段和專業(yè)廚師形象。我在我職業(yè)生涯最初的一位雇主那里找到了一份做午餐廚師的工作。在我的《廚房機密檔案》（Kitchen Confidential）一書中，我稱他為“大腳獸”。他給我的建議也是一項命令。他說：“如果你打算為我干活，最重要的事情是要準(zhǔn)時。也就是說，你要在當(dāng)班前15分鐘到。如果當(dāng)班前14分鐘到，你就回家吧，沒有薪水。”時至今日，我做任何事都再也不遲到。這項要求——尊重同事和雇主，至少按時上班——給我的生活帶來了巨大變化。后來等我走上正軌，再次成為一名大廚，以及自己當(dāng)上老板之后，我向人們強調(diào)的最重要事情就是準(zhǔn)時。做實際工作必備的技能是可以傳授的。我的節(jié)目組人員都知道，如果預(yù)訂8點在河內(nèi)拍攝一場市場場景，8點差5分我就在酒店大堂等他們了。我信奉身先士卒。在我看來，如果有人像我一樣，能有幸每天都與美酒佳肴打交道，還要遲到？那可真是太不可理喻了。我的行為，我的到場時間樹立了標(biāo)桿。如果我每天準(zhǔn)時到場，其他人也會準(zhǔn)時到場。

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.