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Let me tell you about my job.
I'm lucky in that I'm skilled at what I do and that I can believe in the product I sell, but unlucky in being swallowed by a giant corporation that hasn't quite figured out how to find cheap high quality help that isn't illegal. I spend my days mediating between the team, attempting to train and develop everyone around me, and manage to run the business with financial success. There is always a big to-do list, but little time in which to get it done. I go in every day, ready for the war, and I leave exhausted, sometimes only a few hours to sleep between battles.
This is Chipotle. The soul-sucker of my last 3+ years. I began as a cashier while in school and a combination of previous management experience and Spanish skills led me into an eventual management position. I relocated to OP for a promotion, only to be placed in a restaurant full of problems that I didn't have the skills to solve. Now my enthusiasm has turned to bitterness, and I'm forced to stay until my contract runs out in June.
One of the positive things about my work is the variety of people we see on a daily basis. Being in a fairly wealthy area of Overland Park give us incredibly rich and entitled people with money to burn. Some are nice and gracious, while others are demanding and rude. One of the things that can bring down my entire day is when someone orders something HUGE. The cool thing about Chipotle is the ability to customize your order, but when people take advantage of that it's disgusting, and in my mind it's stealing. If we have to use 2 tortillas, of if we can't put the lid on the bowl, it's too much! Spend some of your lots of money on a second burrito. Some people are accomodating and awesome. When someone comments on how quickly or amazingly I rolled their burrito it makes me really happy.
Sometime soon I'll write about my current move up the ladder, or lack of moving, but for right now I'm tired. I have to go battle it out at 7 in the morning.
I'm lucky in that I'm skilled at what I do and that I can believe in the product I sell, but unlucky in being swallowed by a giant corporation that hasn't quite figured out how to find cheap high quality help that isn't illegal. I spend my days mediating between the team, attempting to train and develop everyone around me, and manage to run the business with financial success. There is always a big to-do list, but little time in which to get it done. I go in every day, ready for the war, and I leave exhausted, sometimes only a few hours to sleep between battles.
This is Chipotle. The soul-sucker of my last 3+ years. I began as a cashier while in school and a combination of previous management experience and Spanish skills led me into an eventual management position. I relocated to OP for a promotion, only to be placed in a restaurant full of problems that I didn't have the skills to solve. Now my enthusiasm has turned to bitterness, and I'm forced to stay until my contract runs out in June.
One of the positive things about my work is the variety of people we see on a daily basis. Being in a fairly wealthy area of Overland Park give us incredibly rich and entitled people with money to burn. Some are nice and gracious, while others are demanding and rude. One of the things that can bring down my entire day is when someone orders something HUGE. The cool thing about Chipotle is the ability to customize your order, but when people take advantage of that it's disgusting, and in my mind it's stealing. If we have to use 2 tortillas, of if we can't put the lid on the bowl, it's too much! Spend some of your lots of money on a second burrito. Some people are accomodating and awesome. When someone comments on how quickly or amazingly I rolled their burrito it makes me really happy.
Sometime soon I'll write about my current move up the ladder, or lack of moving, but for right now I'm tired. I have to go battle it out at 7 in the morning.