work in the past couple of weeks
photo by wicketts via flickr
i havent’ talked much about my work lately… been spending too much time venting about the problems i had on livejournal’s communities like customers suck, and co-workers suck. it’s very therapeutic to go on and on and on about customers you dislike, colleagues that you hate, or is bound to hate.
obviously, when nothing much is happening though, i have nothing to say. 
if truth be told, the last 2 weeks have been a slight pain in the arse. there were the stresses of school of course, and the fact that i had to push some weight around to get people to do anything. obviously they have always viewed me in a light hearted manner, and all crazy and funny woman like, so they had never really considered about the fact that i am ranked higher than them because of various factors.
some girls did take offense when i told them to keep working, while orders had be rude and retorted stupid remarks ("i will do things when i am not as busy" when she was just standing there and chatting inanely to herself).
Training the new girls were awkward and a little on the hard side. they joined just prior to exams and assignment due dates, so i can’t afford to come in early and train them properly. besides, they were told to come in at four so that they could be partially trained by Mel, and now i have no idea who taught them what because it is all a haphazard thing.
Standing up for the girls when the kitchen or the customers make errors were scary as well. i thread on the thin line of being pushy, rude or just being firm. I mean, cookie is the biggest bitch that we can have on a permanent basis. He yells at us, abuses us verbally for being fucking stupid and what not, or abuses us in a way of venting his anger towards the customers. either ways, the girls gets it, and one thing you must remember though, being a waitress meant that we have to face customer fury as well. which results in a double abuse, and it really isn’t the girls’ fault sometimes.
And since the managers are scared of an angry cookie, they pulled me one side and told me that he’s ranked higher than Don, don’t be rude and pushy to him, it reflects on the managers, etc etc. i don’t get it, YES he IS important as a chef, but why should HE get away with being a prick while others are told to mute it in their little corner of the world? again, he can get shoved. i don’t care if he’s the manager or the kitchen hand. he is inducing the rest of the stupids in the kitchen who are new and doesn’t know much shit to be abusive towards the girls too, even though sometimes they were definitely in the wrong (and yes, this time i literally told the new guy to fuck off because i know the job more than him.). we apologise, we literally grovel sometimes, we do not deserve to be abused, whether it’s their fault (and especially if it’s their fault), our fault, or the customer’s fault.
there are other ways to handle things without being abusive.
The girls don’t get why i get relaxing bits of the job sometimes, and that bit sometimes make them annoyed enough to ignore me when i tell them to do shit. if truth be told, i rather not be the one in the pass because then i can earn some tips. it’s also fairly boring, since i am able to do it fast. when it’s just food, and clearing, and just checking the food out of the pass, the night goes by too slowly. there were times i can’t help out in the food and clearing either, because there were already 2 bus-girls, and the food were 3 minutes from being fully ready. so i had to stand there, do nothing for 3 minutes.
ah, the joys of being a senior waitress. i had rather be a nobody sometimes.
but someone’s got to be it.
incidentally, i have picked up more shifts for the holidays i kinda screwed up though, i told them i be free till july 17th or something, and turns out that if i failed economics, i start school again on the 16th or something of june. lmao. ~.~ just a couple of weeks to lax out. meh
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