Thanks to all who have been reading my blogs. At least some people actually see this stuff. However, I don't think I will be able to always keep this on a good note or have deep meaning behind the things I write. So don't be surprised when things go from extremely good and nice to angry and cruel (or something along those lines).
I've been at the same work place for two years now (I work in a kitchen, just so you know). I know that that is not that long, but it is when it is your first job and have been there since junior year of high school (thinking of it that way makes it sound longer). I was never really interested in working in a kitchen to become a cook, but it was a job, payed the bills, and worked out great for being in school. I originally started as a dish washer with four cooks and the head chef. I stayed a dish washer for about a year and then became the salad/cold-side cook. Boy am I glad I switched. Now I make things dirty and don't have to clean them. Granted the work load of the dish washer has become much lighter that when I first started, but I still don't miss it one bit.
From the time I started until now, I've seen three of the original cooks, one dish washer, and the head chef leave. Then we went through four dish washers and are on the fifth (one didn't even last a week; never showed up after his first day), have replaced one cook twice and are on the third, one cook was replaced and the same guy has been there for about a year and nine months. Where I am now (salad/cold-side), the first replacement left to go to school (on good terms) and the second guy got fired because he ticked off the restaurant manager and just about everyone else. I started on the cold-side working with the second guy, but he was getting in my way and ticked me off so I was more than glad to see him go (oddly though he was going to WWTC to become a chef) so basically I do the work that two people once did more efficiently, better, and cheaper.
One of the guys that quit a couple of months after I started ended up coming back. He's one guy that I'm glad that he came back. When I started as a dish washer, he was the salad/cold-side cook and he was pretty good at it. So whenever he helps me out for a big party or whatever is going on, we get stuff done really freakin' fast. We also give each other a hard time basically all the time too. Also, the head chef came back. I'm really glad about that too because he is a really nice guy and a really good friend.
The real reason for this posting is to talk about the current dish washer. Recently he got a job at another restaurant working in the morning/early afternoon (he's not in school and basically wanted to make more money). The head chef said it was alright as long as it didn't affect his schedule here (where I work). Well, the fact of having two jobs became relevant last Friday. Friday is our busiest day by far and nobody, I mean nobody hardly ever gets off.
It started out really good for me. I was all ready and had backups of what might run out of. I knew it was too good to be true. The head chef told me he got a text message form the dish washer saying someone called in sick at his other job and that he might have to cover for them. The head chef responded saying that he didn't care what was going on and that he was scheduled to work with us way before this ever came up and told him he better get to work no later than 6pm (we start serving dinner at 5:30). The dish washer never responded and never showed up. I was pissed off majorly. Not only did I have to work my station, but I also had to wash dishes whenever I was free (which that Friday happened to be our busiest one in a long time so I was never free).
The dish washer never talked to the head chef all weekend. He showed up on Tuesday for his normal work schedule. The head chef chewed him out. He was told to apologize to everyone in the kitchen (four cooks including myself). He apologized to two (not me and another guy). The head chef asked me Thursday if he apologized to me and I said no. I said I would have told him that his apology was unaccepted and to get the heck away from me (in other words that are not appropriate for blogging). The head chef figured I would have said that and actually wanted me to tell him that (show him how angry everyone was at him).
That is one thing that ticks me off more than anything: people not showing up for what they were scheduled or said they would do. When people don't show up, it makes life ten times worse for everyone else.
Needless to say, the head chef has already hired someone new (problems with the dish washer have been on going for about a year and a half now). I've been wanting him gone since he said he was "taking the winter off to do what he wanted" (we are really slow December thru March so I was going to get all the hours possible and that I wanted anyway; the original plan was to never let him come back in April but I guess he basically came crawling back saying he couldn't find another job). Now I can't wait until he is gone.
(Sorry, kind of my more serious / angry side, but oh well.)
1 comment:
Yeah, I can kind of relate to your life in that I am the same age as you and I have been working at Sears for two and a half years now. I have been a cashier and I can't even count how many people I've seen get hired and fired/quit. Some people I'm glad quit but most of the people that quit or got fired were really cool people and it sucks that I can't talk to them anymore while at work. I can't believe it that I've been working at Sears for two and a half years, it's really unproductive and there are nights where sever boredom kicks in.
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