Salina
So today I was supposed to go to the Applebee's in Salina and help out because it's thier prom and they were short staffed. I was fine with that and when I got up there I learned that there were two other girld recruited from Great Bend to help out as well. Once angain I was fine with this because expected bussy days it's pretty usuall for there to be about five hosts.
At first all was good, and for the most part we got along because we had a plan on who was going to do what. But then we got bussy and the plan fell to pieces and one of the girls from Great Bend decided to become a rude and bossy bitch. Now I'm pretty good about biting my toung in front of people like this and I was able to do it for about four hours. It was when breaks were started to be given out that it all fell to pieces. The bossy girl and one of the other girls got to go on break first, which was fine bebcause quite frankly I never care who gets to go first or last or anywhere in between when it comes to breaks. It was when the girl got back from her break that the trouble began. About ten minutes after her break she came up to me and told me she was going to the back for a little bit. When I asked her why she huffed up and said once again it was because she was going to the back. Well at this point I got pretty annoyed because from my point of view all I was seeing was someone who was already granted a break getting another one before all the other hosts got one. So I followed her to the host stand and once again asked her why she needed to go to the back. She got all pissy at me and told me that it was because pizza had just gotten there and she wanted some and that she had told me twice already and I needed to listen more. Now she has just told me the first time I had asked her why she wanted to go to the back then there wouldn't have been a problem, but no she had to go out of her way to belittle me in the rudest manner. So I followed her to the back.
Now most people who know me pretty well know that I'm rather partial to non confrintation, but I felt this girl needed to be put into her place because she had no tight to be so blatently rude. And that is exactly what I told her. Well she didn't take to kindly to this and when she was done with her pizza she hunted me down to give me a pice of her mind. We went to the back and she proceded to tell me that she didn't really care what I thought of her since we didn't know each other or work with each other and would probably never see each other again. We agreed that the best corse of action would be not to talk to each other unless needed, but she went further and said that I needed to just avoid her and that she didn't want to hear my voice or see my face. She didn't want me to have anything to say that but I did. I told her that I had a problem with her, but that it was my problem and I was going to just have to deal with it and if she had a problem with me then she just would have to deal with it as well, but that I wasn't going to go out of my way just to avoid her to make her happy. I think that was about the time that she decided just to make me misserable.
About an hour passed and nothing happened. I was polite and even asked her about something because it was different from the way we do things in Hays and it was okay. But then the time came where we were told what jobs we were to primarely focus on for the evening. I got scheduled to seat and she got scheduled to buss tables. It was at this time that she decided to go into the bossy rutine and start giving out orders. She was going to buss the tables but she wanted me to take care of the flores. When I told her no because that was an unrealistic thing to request of me when I'm supposed to be more focued on seating people she had a nut. She yelled at me that we were all supposed to help out and went to get the manager. The manager came out and gave me the teamwork speach while she watched on smugly and I flat out told the manager that I'm all for teamwork but that that I wasn't going to waste my time going around to tables to vaccume under them every time someone got up when I had another job to do, and that bussing the tables includes taking care of the flore but if for some reason the busser couldn't get it I would be more that happy to do it as long as it was within reason. The manager agreed with this but for some reason the girl thought that this was the okay for her to order me around and told me to go vaccume up the dirty spots around the host stand. At the time there was no dirty spots around the host stand and I told her that I didn't see anything dirty. She proceded to make comments along the lines that she would be glad to go accross the street to get me glasses since aperently I can't see very well and pointed out a few specks of paper scrap that were rediculous to make a big deal about.
At this point I was pretty mad and I just decided to ignore her and took my break. I called my manager in Hays and asked if I would get fired for walking out of Salina because I was getting pretty well fed up with this girl and didn't think that I should have to deal with these problems seeing how my purpose for being there was to help out. Unfortunately my manager told me that I couldn't walk out because it would still be considered job abandonment and asked me to just try and get through the shift. So back I went.
Thankfully it started to get bussy and and the girl and I were pretty well able to stay away from each other. Unfortunately for me the person anchoring was a girl who gets stressed out easily. She had me go seat a family with a toddler and they requested a highchair. Well I diddn't know where they kept the highchairs for that section so it took a little extra time for me to get back to the host stand. When I got back the anchor girl was gone but came back a few moments later telling me she just had to seat someone. When I asked her what the big deal was she told me that she shouldn't have to seat people if I was doing my job properly. Well it just so happens bossy girl was over by the host stand and she took the oportunity to agree with the achor girl and yell at me as well. When I explained why it took me extra time to get back bossy girl called me a retard and said that I should have figure out where everything was when I first got there and anchor girl agreed.
That was it. I snapped inside, and since I couldn't just leave and vent I started to cry and went to find the manager to ask him to let me leave. The manager took me into the back and asked why I was so upset and I told him about bossy girl and how I was tired of being yelled at for stupid things when all I was doing was my job and I couldn't retaliate. He told me to stay in the back while he went to talk to the other hosts including bossy girl. While I was back there the kitchen manager started talking to me telling me how well I was doing because I was actually presenting the menues and promoting things the way we were supposed to *I guess the Salina hosts don't do this very well, and it was something the servers kept making good comments about as well* and I started to feel a little bit better. Then all at once bossy girl comes into the back and flat out tells me that I need to go up front and get to work. I nearly lost it. If it wern't for the fact that the kitchen manager was back there I was going beat the snot out of her. But because he was I just bursted out crying again and told her to just leave me alone. The kitchen manager told her that she was out of place and that the front of house manager was taking care of it. I took a few minutes to regain my composure and I guess during that time the front of house manager taled to the hosts.
I was asked what I wantded to do. I told him I didn't mind working as long as people laid off me and let me do my job. He said okay and that he had told the other hosts that if they trested me like that agian then they could just go home since there was no reason for any of us to be rude or mean to each other. I went back to working and I think the anchor girl felt bad because she was really nice to me for the rest of the night. I finished out my shift and now I'm finally home.
I will never EVER aggree to helping out a store that had people from Great Bend helping as well again.
At first all was good, and for the most part we got along because we had a plan on who was going to do what. But then we got bussy and the plan fell to pieces and one of the girls from Great Bend decided to become a rude and bossy bitch. Now I'm pretty good about biting my toung in front of people like this and I was able to do it for about four hours. It was when breaks were started to be given out that it all fell to pieces. The bossy girl and one of the other girls got to go on break first, which was fine bebcause quite frankly I never care who gets to go first or last or anywhere in between when it comes to breaks. It was when the girl got back from her break that the trouble began. About ten minutes after her break she came up to me and told me she was going to the back for a little bit. When I asked her why she huffed up and said once again it was because she was going to the back. Well at this point I got pretty annoyed because from my point of view all I was seeing was someone who was already granted a break getting another one before all the other hosts got one. So I followed her to the host stand and once again asked her why she needed to go to the back. She got all pissy at me and told me that it was because pizza had just gotten there and she wanted some and that she had told me twice already and I needed to listen more. Now she has just told me the first time I had asked her why she wanted to go to the back then there wouldn't have been a problem, but no she had to go out of her way to belittle me in the rudest manner. So I followed her to the back.
Now most people who know me pretty well know that I'm rather partial to non confrintation, but I felt this girl needed to be put into her place because she had no tight to be so blatently rude. And that is exactly what I told her. Well she didn't take to kindly to this and when she was done with her pizza she hunted me down to give me a pice of her mind. We went to the back and she proceded to tell me that she didn't really care what I thought of her since we didn't know each other or work with each other and would probably never see each other again. We agreed that the best corse of action would be not to talk to each other unless needed, but she went further and said that I needed to just avoid her and that she didn't want to hear my voice or see my face. She didn't want me to have anything to say that but I did. I told her that I had a problem with her, but that it was my problem and I was going to just have to deal with it and if she had a problem with me then she just would have to deal with it as well, but that I wasn't going to go out of my way just to avoid her to make her happy. I think that was about the time that she decided just to make me misserable.
About an hour passed and nothing happened. I was polite and even asked her about something because it was different from the way we do things in Hays and it was okay. But then the time came where we were told what jobs we were to primarely focus on for the evening. I got scheduled to seat and she got scheduled to buss tables. It was at this time that she decided to go into the bossy rutine and start giving out orders. She was going to buss the tables but she wanted me to take care of the flores. When I told her no because that was an unrealistic thing to request of me when I'm supposed to be more focued on seating people she had a nut. She yelled at me that we were all supposed to help out and went to get the manager. The manager came out and gave me the teamwork speach while she watched on smugly and I flat out told the manager that I'm all for teamwork but that that I wasn't going to waste my time going around to tables to vaccume under them every time someone got up when I had another job to do, and that bussing the tables includes taking care of the flore but if for some reason the busser couldn't get it I would be more that happy to do it as long as it was within reason. The manager agreed with this but for some reason the girl thought that this was the okay for her to order me around and told me to go vaccume up the dirty spots around the host stand. At the time there was no dirty spots around the host stand and I told her that I didn't see anything dirty. She proceded to make comments along the lines that she would be glad to go accross the street to get me glasses since aperently I can't see very well and pointed out a few specks of paper scrap that were rediculous to make a big deal about.
At this point I was pretty mad and I just decided to ignore her and took my break. I called my manager in Hays and asked if I would get fired for walking out of Salina because I was getting pretty well fed up with this girl and didn't think that I should have to deal with these problems seeing how my purpose for being there was to help out. Unfortunately my manager told me that I couldn't walk out because it would still be considered job abandonment and asked me to just try and get through the shift. So back I went.
Thankfully it started to get bussy and and the girl and I were pretty well able to stay away from each other. Unfortunately for me the person anchoring was a girl who gets stressed out easily. She had me go seat a family with a toddler and they requested a highchair. Well I diddn't know where they kept the highchairs for that section so it took a little extra time for me to get back to the host stand. When I got back the anchor girl was gone but came back a few moments later telling me she just had to seat someone. When I asked her what the big deal was she told me that she shouldn't have to seat people if I was doing my job properly. Well it just so happens bossy girl was over by the host stand and she took the oportunity to agree with the achor girl and yell at me as well. When I explained why it took me extra time to get back bossy girl called me a retard and said that I should have figure out where everything was when I first got there and anchor girl agreed.
That was it. I snapped inside, and since I couldn't just leave and vent I started to cry and went to find the manager to ask him to let me leave. The manager took me into the back and asked why I was so upset and I told him about bossy girl and how I was tired of being yelled at for stupid things when all I was doing was my job and I couldn't retaliate. He told me to stay in the back while he went to talk to the other hosts including bossy girl. While I was back there the kitchen manager started talking to me telling me how well I was doing because I was actually presenting the menues and promoting things the way we were supposed to *I guess the Salina hosts don't do this very well, and it was something the servers kept making good comments about as well* and I started to feel a little bit better. Then all at once bossy girl comes into the back and flat out tells me that I need to go up front and get to work. I nearly lost it. If it wern't for the fact that the kitchen manager was back there I was going beat the snot out of her. But because he was I just bursted out crying again and told her to just leave me alone. The kitchen manager told her that she was out of place and that the front of house manager was taking care of it. I took a few minutes to regain my composure and I guess during that time the front of house manager taled to the hosts.
I was asked what I wantded to do. I told him I didn't mind working as long as people laid off me and let me do my job. He said okay and that he had told the other hosts that if they trested me like that agian then they could just go home since there was no reason for any of us to be rude or mean to each other. I went back to working and I think the anchor girl felt bad because she was really nice to me for the rest of the night. I finished out my shift and now I'm finally home.
I will never EVER aggree to helping out a store that had people from Great Bend helping as well again.