Topic: Your Job: The Movie (Read 177919 times)

Lottel · « **Reply #740 on:** March 11, 2010, 10:36:05 AM »

Well, Shinra: 70% correctness. He doesn't have a boss.
This is a tiny family business.
But yeah. If things aren't better next time I work, I'm talking to the boss and telling him that I'm done if there is no improvement.

Gonna give them a chance to improve.

R^2 · « **Reply #741 on:** March 13, 2010, 11:41:09 AM »

I can't decide if getting fired from the worst job imaginable is Good Tiiimes or a Shit Day, so I'll just mention it here.

"Somebody saw you do this egregiously terrible unforgiveable thing."
"I didn't actually. Here are several holes in that story."
"We don't believe you. GTFO."

Also it turns out there was some sort of HILARIOUS MISUNDERSTANDING where they thought the company was being super-forgiving to a terrible employee while I thought I was an upstanding guy and the company was fucking me like a two-dicked billygoat.

Büge · « **Reply #742 on:** March 13, 2010, 12:27:56 PM »

No no, it's in the right place I think.

Lottel · « **Reply #743 on:** March 13, 2010, 11:40:57 PM »

Here's how my weekend started.
I showed up for work. Basically told two coworkers to either go fuck themselves or I'd take a pushbroom to their backsides, told my boss to "give me some goddamn respect" unless he really was a "alcohol-fueled narcissist" and then told them to get me some goddamn tables and fill them with people until the spilt out of the store. (That last on is more of me paraphrasing. It was long and I don't remember it entirely.)

How my weekend ended:
I now have an extra $120 on top of wages from all of my tables and six regular tables that call ahead to reserve a table with me.
I am still doing bitchwork though. A lot less of it but it's still pretty shitty I have to pick up all the slack.

Mongrel · « **Reply #744 on:** March 14, 2010, 07:28:40 AM »

Sometimes a spine can be a handy thing!

McDohl · « **Reply #745 on:** March 14, 2010, 02:45:18 PM »

YOU RED TEAM LADIES COULDN'T BREAK A SPINE IF YOU--AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH MY SPINE!!

R^2 · « **Reply #746 on:** March 20, 2010, 05:14:13 PM »

So it turns out "Come in a little early to get orientation and do your paperwork" is secret code for "The morning guy clocked out early and the guy you'll be working with tonight is coming late, so get crackin'." And that was pretty much my training.

R^2 · « **Reply #747 on:** March 20, 2010, 05:16:46 PM »

Also one of the cooks makes suggestive comments to every female employee, sings nasty music at the top of his lungs, and calls the Spanish-speaking dishwasher "Taco". He's like a walking harrassment lawsuit.

Lottel · « **Reply #748 on:** March 20, 2010, 09:01:41 PM »

Tonight Lamont (our dishwasher) was bussing tables. One of the girls claimed she had a $20 tip on the tables and she never got it.
So she started going around accusing people of taking the money. (I was accused by 4 different employees) She eventually found out Lamont had bussed the table, told the boss he took her money, and then confronted Lamont.
He was already not in a good mood. He shouldn't be working this late as he is a week or two away from becoming an ordained minister and needs to be at church early in the morning. So he just wanted her to go away so he can do his job so he can go home Lamont said "Listen. It looks bad for me. I didn't do it and feel insulted that you are accusing me. But I don't want a weird work environment or anything so here. Take $20." She took this as a confession and told everyone.
Lamont talked to Jerry (the boss) and told him he felt really uncomfortable (the girls were avoiding him and not bringing him dishes anymore) Jerry basically said "Well, you did steal her money. That's not what we do here." After a bit of an argument Lamont quit, stormed out yelling and cursing. Mind you we still had a few tables.

Everyone was stupid. The whole thing was handled wrong. Besides, Employees should never leave their tips on the table if the customers are gone. Even if you trust all your coworkers, I see customers take tips from other tables and pocket them. And we had a lot of kids and preteens tonight. And they are the biggest tip thieves.
I think one of the customers did it. $20 sitting on the table for half an hour with no one near by is a lot of temptation for a random person.

Mongrel · « **Reply #749 on:** March 21, 2010, 05:09:57 AM »

Wow, that's like textbook workplace retarded.

R^2 · « **Reply #750 on:** March 21, 2010, 07:00:59 AM »

Amazingly accurate, as I actually have a hospitality management textbook and yes, it says that's retarded.

You know, in so many words.

Lottel · « **Reply #751 on:** March 21, 2010, 07:08:07 AM »

I'm well aware. But on the bright side, I'm mainly a party host now. So I get $50+ per table not including gratuity. And people are asking for me by (nick)name.

They still call me Sunshine though.

R^2 · « **Reply #752 on:** March 21, 2010, 08:54:41 PM »

So apparently every new guy is, like, intentionally overwhelmed on his first day. Effective separation of wheat from chaff, or total dick move? Hint: kind of both.

Brentai · « **Reply #753 on:** March 21, 2010, 11:21:42 PM »

Also, determination of exactly what you're capable of. If you're told you have to reach an impossible goal and you accomplish only 60% of it, they now know you can accomplish that much under the most pressing circumstances.

The tricky part is realizing that that means you should keep the employee's workload around 80% of that, not 100%.

R^2 · « **Reply #754 on:** March 22, 2010, 07:40:05 AM »

"How's it goin' back here?" "I've got one load in the machine, and these three racks ready to go. I think I'm getting ahead of the backlog a little." "Nice, very efficient."

Trial by fire t(-_-t)

Mongrel · « **Reply #755 on:** March 26, 2010, 05:36:35 AM »

I know I'm not MISTER MBA, and that means I have the dumb, but I just can't see any logic behind the pricing schemes our pricing director and CEO want to implement.

"Hi! We're going to renew your current pricing, only if you're below unattainable threshold [X], then instead of the standard one-year period, it'll end at an arbitrary date that's convenient for us and instead of the standard increase range of roughly 3-5%, you'll instead be hit with an increase of 40%-80%. Oh and we probably won't tell you about this until a week or two before it's gonna happen!".

I mean, perhaps I'm missing the Big Picture, but that doesn't seem like "doing business" so much as it seems like revenge.

Brentai · « **Reply #756 on:** March 26, 2010, 06:37:04 AM »

Hypothetical: You spent six fucking extra years in school to get a goddam MBA.

You work for that company.

Tell me what your mindset is like.

Mongrel · « **Reply #757 on:** March 26, 2010, 06:50:29 AM »

"I have an MBA? Jesus stone cold hockey sticks! Why am still I working here?!"

Come to think of it, this does fit with the number of resignations the US operation is seeing (LOTS).

SCD · « **Reply #758 on:** March 26, 2010, 07:37:02 AM »

That's your sign.

Mongrel · « **Reply #759 on:** March 26, 2010, 07:54:50 AM »

Eh, seeing as I DON'T have an MBA and have zero useful qualifications, I'm paid quite well (well, more than I'd get elsewhere for doing the same thing - by a fair margin), and in spite of my Manager being

she isn't actually here every day exercising merciless oversight and driving me crazy, so I have lots of freedom to do dumb shit like... post on the boards.

It's not perfect by any means, but I'm gonna try and ride this horse for as long as I can.

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