Ron's an Ass.
So after the cheating thing on the last time I took the test, Chris has been nice enough to talk to management to find out what's going on and if I am gonna be a server or not. Mind you, he's not a manager but he's one of the few people there with some kind of pull that looks out for me. So Nino tells him to tell me to come in today at 3pm to take an oral exam. Fine. I'll study a lil more and dammit, I'ma PASS this goddam thing, once and for all.
So I studied my ASS off. I haven't studied like this since 1999. So I come in today at 3pm. Ron wants to talk to me about what happend. So here's how the conversation went:
R: So tell me what happend with the menu.
A: I know nothing I say is gonna make cheating alrite, but in my defense, I was told that several servers have cheated on this, which lead me to believe it wasn't the crisis situation it turned out to be.
R: That's a cop-out. I'm not accepting that.
A: Fine. Then how 'bout this? I was also told about this "illuminous" study packet that the rest of your staff received that I wasn't given.
R: That doesn't matter.
A: Oh, it doesn't? There's several things in this study packet that aren't in the menu, and that's all I was given to study from.
R: Are you trying to blame this on us?
A: *blank stare* YES!!!
R: You're in the kitchen all the time - you see what's on these plates.
A: Yeah, so I know what a Three-for-all looks like, but I tell you, it never crossed my mind to COUNT the items on there!
R: You didn't think that that would be an important question to ask?
A: At that time, no I didn't!
R: So what do you want me to do now - call up corporate for this study packet and have you start all over again?
A: Well if I pass this thing with Nino, I won't need to, now will I?
And this conversation went on for a lil longer like this; Ron completly denying management is at fault for anything. Fine, Braintrust - be that way. So now I'm waiting in the New Room for Nino to come meet me. I had to leave at 3:30 so I could come home and pick up Julie for work. I got back at 4pm. I sat in the New Room, reading the menu for a lil extra study work. I'm still sitting there all by my lonesome during shift meeting - at 4:45. I'm telling servers walking back and forth thru the room to keep telling Nino I'm waiting for him. I even had Sam, the only manager that looks out for me, to get his fat, whiny ass in here. She comes back in 2 minutes later - making this 5:15pm for me to go home cuz Nino's on his way out and won't be able to see me today.
If you could have seen me leaving that place, I was ready to crack skulls. And everyone knew it. They may not have known what happend exactly but I looked like I was about to spit tacks. Is this my punishment for cheating? You're gonna waste my time? I'm at the point now where I have to look for another job. As much as this pains me, they are gonna dick me over from now till Judgement Day just because they can. My problem is that I NEED money rite now. All the things I have to worry about? This was supposed to get me the money I needed to get a car, get outta my house, get back into school.... and at this point, it's looking like my only other option is to go back on the door. I asked for this position so I wouldn't HAVE to stay on the door. I love it there but I can't do anything with the pay I get there. That's why the entire time I've been working there, I've had another job. And I still wasn't making ends meet. I'm fucked now.
If anyone has any ideas as to what I can do that will give me relatively the same salary as a waitress, let me know. I'm all out of patience.
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.
So I studied my ASS off. I haven't studied like this since 1999. So I come in today at 3pm. Ron wants to talk to me about what happend. So here's how the conversation went:
R: So tell me what happend with the menu.
A: I know nothing I say is gonna make cheating alrite, but in my defense, I was told that several servers have cheated on this, which lead me to believe it wasn't the crisis situation it turned out to be.
R: That's a cop-out. I'm not accepting that.
A: Fine. Then how 'bout this? I was also told about this "illuminous" study packet that the rest of your staff received that I wasn't given.
R: That doesn't matter.
A: Oh, it doesn't? There's several things in this study packet that aren't in the menu, and that's all I was given to study from.
R: Are you trying to blame this on us?
A: *blank stare* YES!!!
R: You're in the kitchen all the time - you see what's on these plates.
A: Yeah, so I know what a Three-for-all looks like, but I tell you, it never crossed my mind to COUNT the items on there!
R: You didn't think that that would be an important question to ask?
A: At that time, no I didn't!
R: So what do you want me to do now - call up corporate for this study packet and have you start all over again?
A: Well if I pass this thing with Nino, I won't need to, now will I?
And this conversation went on for a lil longer like this; Ron completly denying management is at fault for anything. Fine, Braintrust - be that way. So now I'm waiting in the New Room for Nino to come meet me. I had to leave at 3:30 so I could come home and pick up Julie for work. I got back at 4pm. I sat in the New Room, reading the menu for a lil extra study work. I'm still sitting there all by my lonesome during shift meeting - at 4:45. I'm telling servers walking back and forth thru the room to keep telling Nino I'm waiting for him. I even had Sam, the only manager that looks out for me, to get his fat, whiny ass in here. She comes back in 2 minutes later - making this 5:15pm for me to go home cuz Nino's on his way out and won't be able to see me today.
If you could have seen me leaving that place, I was ready to crack skulls. And everyone knew it. They may not have known what happend exactly but I looked like I was about to spit tacks. Is this my punishment for cheating? You're gonna waste my time? I'm at the point now where I have to look for another job. As much as this pains me, they are gonna dick me over from now till Judgement Day just because they can. My problem is that I NEED money rite now. All the things I have to worry about? This was supposed to get me the money I needed to get a car, get outta my house, get back into school.... and at this point, it's looking like my only other option is to go back on the door. I asked for this position so I wouldn't HAVE to stay on the door. I love it there but I can't do anything with the pay I get there. That's why the entire time I've been working there, I've had another job. And I still wasn't making ends meet. I'm fucked now.
If anyone has any ideas as to what I can do that will give me relatively the same salary as a waitress, let me know. I'm all out of patience.
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference.