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Second day of work was better.
4 years ago
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Gonna make this really short as I need to go to bed but I didn't hate today anywhere near as much. See, there's three jobs in the dishwashing station here (I assume most restaurants are similar):
-the guy who cleans the cookware and delivers it back to the cooks. This one sucks and is just a conga line of burning yourself and I will do everything in my power to not do it
-the guy who sprays the dishes the customers eat off of and other stuff and feeds it into the dishwasher
-the guy who takes the stuff from the dishwasher and puts it where it needs to go
I monopolized the second job and it was so much better. It was still miserably monotonous and way too long, but bearable. Other things I learned:
Firstly, while there are no mandatory work break laws in texas that doesn't prevent piss breaks. Take absurdly long ones. I did like two twenty-minute ones and didn't get in trouble lmao
Secondly, bail early on in the closing period or the manager will rope you into cleaning like half the fucking kitchen. The other two dishwashers just bailed at the end and left me on the rope. Gotta incorporate that into my strats now.
-the guy who cleans the cookware and delivers it back to the cooks. This one sucks and is just a conga line of burning yourself and I will do everything in my power to not do it
-the guy who sprays the dishes the customers eat off of and other stuff and feeds it into the dishwasher
-the guy who takes the stuff from the dishwasher and puts it where it needs to go
I monopolized the second job and it was so much better. It was still miserably monotonous and way too long, but bearable. Other things I learned:
Firstly, while there are no mandatory work break laws in texas that doesn't prevent piss breaks. Take absurdly long ones. I did like two twenty-minute ones and didn't get in trouble lmao
Secondly, bail early on in the closing period or the manager will rope you into cleaning like half the fucking kitchen. The other two dishwashers just bailed at the end and left me on the rope. Gotta incorporate that into my strats now.
That's probably how the kitchen should be run, but depending on where you work, rocking the boat about it might not be that great of an idea. You didn't suggest you would, but it sounds like something I'd do, and it's gotten me fired in the past. If there's one thing I learned working as many jobs as I had, it's that management is always different. Sometimes you get managers that want to run a well-oiled machine and care about the quality of work and making sure everyone's treated fairly. But, more often than you might think, management just wants you to not cause them a headache to deal with, and don't actually care if the rules are being followed or not.
I wish you luck. Hope they don't come down on you for restroom breaks - that happened to me once when I wasn't actually taking longer on purpose and it's never a fun conversation.
And they seem to not really care about the restroom breaks. I actually left an apron in the restroom during a like 15-minute one and a customer saw it. My manager came to me later asking about it, but he was chill and just reminded me to throw the apron away and didn't seem to care about the break at all, so that's nice. In fact my managers all seem to be pretty positive on me.