I think it's time to make a change...
The new management isn't working out as well as I had hoped. I was thinking of leaving before he was hired and then thought I'd give him a chance. He is just not the kind of manager I want to work with. The new chef is great, but he's having issues with the manager too. I've had to talk him out of walking out and convinced him to at least give notice so he doesn't slam the door behind him with the parent company. The parent company is nice, it's just this location that is an issue. We've been through 2 directors and 3 chefs since I started. I almost left in October but stayed as I felt the current director needed me and the job offer in NY wasn't really offering the salary I would need to actually live in NY. I told them I was staying the day the director said she was leaving. I don't blame her for leaving, her heart in is clinical care and she wanted to go back to it. I just wish I knew before as I might have made a different choice when I was offered the position in NY.
Fast forward to having the new guy for the last 3 months... He has great energy, but he is never around when you need him, he puts off his work on everyone else and then bitches there is too much overtime being paid out, at the same time we can't fill shifts and he's saying we have too many people on payroll and sending people home, and then he expects the salaried people to work filling in for those he sent home to save money on payroll...
I'm sorry, not happening... I'm a clinical dietitian, I am not unloading trucks, putting up stock, doing my job, and other people's jobs just so he can save some money. I've already hurt myself trying, I'm not the only one that can lift and put 50# bags of flour and sugar on the shelf, in fact we have two people hired to do exactly that, I'm also not the dishwasher but I've done the dishes so many times it's ridiculous. I am contracted for 35 hours a week providing clinical care and dietary/menu work, I almost always give extra time to make sure my patients and residents are taken care of...
I was willing to go above and beyond for the last director as she would work side by side with any of us to get it done... this guy can't be found most of the time. I also noticed that there is a couple thousand dollars missing from my salary. I didn't notice it last year because I didn't work the whole year, but when I got my W2, even counting in the contributions to my 401k and that the pay cycle didn't work out exactly... it's short. There is also a deduction in my check for meals that I requested be stopped as I bring in my own lunch and don't use the cafe and it's still being taken out and in fact it doubled recently. I tried taking it up with management and the new director yelled at me for going above his head, but he ignored me when I brought it to him.
I let him know that I was getting a dietary intern for their long term care clinical rotation and his first comment was "great free labor". I had to remind him that this was a clinical rotation not a food service rotation and she'd be doing clinical stuff with me not working in the kitchen...
I'm looking for a new place this is not working, I gave him a chance and it's just not working. I'm tired of the crap and begging people not to quit. I'm tired of being so drained when I get home, and the stupid app he insisted we put on our phones so he can get in touch with us all at once... A group text would work, but no he insisted on us having WhatsApp. All the little crap adds up... I'm putting my resume out there... they can deal with trying to replace me, LOL it took them 8 months, a 5K sign-on bonus, and 5K towards moving expenses to get me here... I wonder what it'll take to find someone else?
Fast forward to having the new guy for the last 3 months... He has great energy, but he is never around when you need him, he puts off his work on everyone else and then bitches there is too much overtime being paid out, at the same time we can't fill shifts and he's saying we have too many people on payroll and sending people home, and then he expects the salaried people to work filling in for those he sent home to save money on payroll...
I'm sorry, not happening... I'm a clinical dietitian, I am not unloading trucks, putting up stock, doing my job, and other people's jobs just so he can save some money. I've already hurt myself trying, I'm not the only one that can lift and put 50# bags of flour and sugar on the shelf, in fact we have two people hired to do exactly that, I'm also not the dishwasher but I've done the dishes so many times it's ridiculous. I am contracted for 35 hours a week providing clinical care and dietary/menu work, I almost always give extra time to make sure my patients and residents are taken care of...
I was willing to go above and beyond for the last director as she would work side by side with any of us to get it done... this guy can't be found most of the time. I also noticed that there is a couple thousand dollars missing from my salary. I didn't notice it last year because I didn't work the whole year, but when I got my W2, even counting in the contributions to my 401k and that the pay cycle didn't work out exactly... it's short. There is also a deduction in my check for meals that I requested be stopped as I bring in my own lunch and don't use the cafe and it's still being taken out and in fact it doubled recently. I tried taking it up with management and the new director yelled at me for going above his head, but he ignored me when I brought it to him.
I let him know that I was getting a dietary intern for their long term care clinical rotation and his first comment was "great free labor". I had to remind him that this was a clinical rotation not a food service rotation and she'd be doing clinical stuff with me not working in the kitchen...
I'm looking for a new place this is not working, I gave him a chance and it's just not working. I'm tired of the crap and begging people not to quit. I'm tired of being so drained when I get home, and the stupid app he insisted we put on our phones so he can get in touch with us all at once... A group text would work, but no he insisted on us having WhatsApp. All the little crap adds up... I'm putting my resume out there... they can deal with trying to replace me, LOL it took them 8 months, a 5K sign-on bonus, and 5K towards moving expenses to get me here... I wonder what it'll take to find someone else?