Thursday, May 13, 2010

over staffed....again

What all servers in a corporate restaurant must realize is....we are just a piece of equipment.....like the fryer of the broiler......we come in on a weekday only to discover once again...(no surprise, actually)...that we will be lucky to get one table an hour....doesn't really help to pay the bills.....then...just to pour salt on the wound...not only are we not making money...we are now expected to work in the capacity of a slave laborer...we are expected to clean out cupboards....wash windows...(not kidding)...take all the glasses off the shelves and clean the shelves...take apart silk plants and clean the leaves...(seriously now)...wipe table bases...God forbid we should talk to each other...equipment doesn't talk...and all this for $2.65 an hour! Why hire a cleaning crew when you can get it done for peanuts?!?



How about baking bread?...Most would think that would be a job of the kitchen help...but kitchen help costs more on the payroll.....so servers have to bake the bread.....



So we hide. We look busy....we are good at this...as soon as we see a manager...we all scatter to the nether regions of the restaurant...only to regroup a couple of minutes later...try to finish the conversation that was so rudely interrupted.....if you force us to play games...we will play games...one manager has such a rapid fire machine gun delivery of all her demands...You! Clean off that shelve under there, empty the plastic boxes the coffee and tea are and run them through the dishwasher..you- take those coffee cups down and wipe under that grate, you- get a broom and sweep, you wipe down all the surfaces, you-go in the back and start sorting silverware, you- (she can't possibly remember all of this) (and we know she can't)...so we stand and wipe something down for a minute...as soon as she is onto someone else...we go back to what we were doing....waiting to make some money or get sent home...and what pray tell...are the mangers doing while we are expected to to spit shine the restaurant? Nothing....after all....they are the one's with the hand shoved up their collective asses...but that does not constitute a reason for them to shove their feet up ours......

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