In some restaurants, you mat have a set schedule from week to week….in others it may vary from week to week….at ours, it varies every week. Depending on how many parties of various sizes we have booked, some weeks you may work a few days, some weeks you may be needed every day.
If you’re a nine to five, Monday through Friday person, this may sound horrible to you! However, we like the variation. (Personally, working nine to five every week chokes the life out of me.) Some may shudder at the thought of working Friday and Saturday nights, I love it! I figure I’m making twice as much, because if I wasn’t working, I’d be out spending. (Somewhere there’s logic involved)
We have a “Request Off” box. If you have something important (or not) to do, you write out the dates you need off, as far in advance as you can, and put the paper in the Request Off box. If possible, your request will be granted.
Sometimes things pop up suddenly and unexpectedly, like it did for me this week. I am scheduled to work a party at 11:30 a.m. Saturday morning. I found out I have to put on a funeral luncheon at church for 200 people. So I figured I’d look at the schedule, see who wasn’t working and get someone to cover it. As it turns out, this is one of the weeks where almost everyone is already scheduled. Time to scramble. One who requested the day off, is working a catering gig all weekend, so he can’t. Another said she couldn’t. But the options don’t end there……I sent a text asking someone else to pick up the Saturday, and then I’d take her Sunday, even though I had requested Sunday off to attend a baby shower for a good friend, I’ll just have to leave the shower early. I popped off another text, asking one who also requested it off, (but owes me a favor) if she could work it, but actually, since she’s still sort of new, she would go on the floor, and one of the ones on the floor would take the party, since they are gonna be there anyways.
But it doesn’t end there…..I still have one option left. There is one server left, (between school and work, this would stretch her schedule to the limit) but she said she would if I couldn’t find anyone else.
Whew! Somehow it’ll all work out…….
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
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