New Job, Same Complaints
If I ever say I want to get a job as a waiter again, I want the nearest person to me to slam a fucking brick into my head. Please.
So I started this new job on Monday. So far it has been............ Interesting. There is supposed to be a "new employee packet" or some such that has all the information I'm supposed to have about the restaurant, their policies, the food, etc. And there are supposed to be 'tests' each day. I have gotten none of this, and horrific training in general. Luckily, I've done this for two years in the past so I've been able to wing it and get it mostly right.
Monday: Went in and was trained by a person I knew from when I worked at Jimmy the Greek. It was normal.
Tuesday: Repeat Monday, nearly exactly. Very little new information. Just repeating of old information from yesterday.
Wednesday: Had to get up early and go to a meeting at 9:30. That sucked. Switched and trained by another guy, who I learned nothing from. We had 4 people training, and 3 servers. Which is just bad math.
Thursday: Off.
Friday: Again I was supposed to be training but we didn't have enough non-training servers so I kind of got stuffed into the back running food and helping bus tables. This wouldn't be so bad but people who started the day AFTER me were already being given full tables. One of whom had never waited before.
Saturday: Off.
Sunday: Wake up at 8... I had to work a double because someone got their ass fired. So I got there at 9:30, was given a crash course on how to open, no real training. Basically I said "What first?" did it, then said "What next?", repeat. Only had three tables, then left because it was slow. I got about an hour off then had to go back. Here's where it starts to really suck. This is my "first day" on the floor, and I'm ALREADY working a double, AND closing! So, my father comes in, and my ex-friend Matt from high school. Just... UGH. And because I'm nice, people take advantage of me, sigh. They say they clean the bathrooms, did they? No. They say dishwashers have to mop, nope. I did. Plus for some reason my cash-out added my morning shift in for who knows why, so I was there an extra hour after closing trying to figure THAT mess out.
Just hit me with a goddamn brick if I ever say I want to work as a waiter. This wouldn't annoy me so, but the FIRST DAY!? I mean, I can handle a few things going wrong. But the first day and I'm already covering someone else, working a double, opening, and closing, and getting shafted by the other people working there? Jesus Christ.
I'm sorry I complain so much in this thing, and never talk about the good stuff. But I just need to Vent somewhere where my family won't tell me how stupid I am for trusting people in the first place.
So I started this new job on Monday. So far it has been............ Interesting. There is supposed to be a "new employee packet" or some such that has all the information I'm supposed to have about the restaurant, their policies, the food, etc. And there are supposed to be 'tests' each day. I have gotten none of this, and horrific training in general. Luckily, I've done this for two years in the past so I've been able to wing it and get it mostly right.
Monday: Went in and was trained by a person I knew from when I worked at Jimmy the Greek. It was normal.
Tuesday: Repeat Monday, nearly exactly. Very little new information. Just repeating of old information from yesterday.
Wednesday: Had to get up early and go to a meeting at 9:30. That sucked. Switched and trained by another guy, who I learned nothing from. We had 4 people training, and 3 servers. Which is just bad math.
Thursday: Off.
Friday: Again I was supposed to be training but we didn't have enough non-training servers so I kind of got stuffed into the back running food and helping bus tables. This wouldn't be so bad but people who started the day AFTER me were already being given full tables. One of whom had never waited before.
Saturday: Off.
Sunday: Wake up at 8... I had to work a double because someone got their ass fired. So I got there at 9:30, was given a crash course on how to open, no real training. Basically I said "What first?" did it, then said "What next?", repeat. Only had three tables, then left because it was slow. I got about an hour off then had to go back. Here's where it starts to really suck. This is my "first day" on the floor, and I'm ALREADY working a double, AND closing! So, my father comes in, and my ex-friend Matt from high school. Just... UGH. And because I'm nice, people take advantage of me, sigh. They say they clean the bathrooms, did they? No. They say dishwashers have to mop, nope. I did. Plus for some reason my cash-out added my morning shift in for who knows why, so I was there an extra hour after closing trying to figure THAT mess out.
Just hit me with a goddamn brick if I ever say I want to work as a waiter. This wouldn't annoy me so, but the FIRST DAY!? I mean, I can handle a few things going wrong. But the first day and I'm already covering someone else, working a double, opening, and closing, and getting shafted by the other people working there? Jesus Christ.
I'm sorry I complain so much in this thing, and never talk about the good stuff. But I just need to Vent somewhere where my family won't tell me how stupid I am for trusting people in the first place.