Hey Everybody...need some advice here...

[CptFarlow]

Originally posted by: thepd7

Originally posted by: CptFarlow
UPDATE

I went in yesterday and talked to my boss and manager. They say they didn't call Monday because they assumed I would come in to grab my paycheck. I didn't, but they still didn't call. They assumed the same thing Tuesday, and still didn't call. They kept beating around the bush about why they couldn't call me.

As far as why they let me go, I think they are taking it out on me when it wasn't my fault. During lunch last Friday, table 1 was a VIP. (A friend of the owner and usually a pain in my ass...they expect psychic service.) Two things went wrong: There was a hair in a salad and a piece of glass was in another dish. I didn't make the food and I didn't bring it up from the kitchen. He bought their lunch for them, but beforehand they bought desserts and coffee and espresso and everything else they could get for free. He said he let me go because of the complaint from that table. How ridiculous is that?

I'm willing to let it go. I was calm and respectful when I went in, and when he offered for me to work in the back of the house I didn't give an answer. I'm gonna call today and tell him no. They didn't treat me very well at all there...they expect you to take 9 or 10 tables at once and have all of them maintained perfectly.

To end, I wanted to share one experience that really showed the lack of respect my manager had for me. I was asking her a question at the host stand one day, and when some customers, some VIPs, were walking out, instead of letting them step around me, she decided to shove me out of the way so they could pass. I looked at her like she was crazy and the ladies thanked her for moving such an annoyance out of their path. That was a few weeks ago and it made me realize that these people don't have any respect for less fortunate human beings. (I'm poor and I struggle to buy food. They aren't and they don't.)

Bah, humbug.

EDIT: Fixed formatting

I can't but point out if you struggle to buy food you should not be paying for internet or have a computer. If you are posting from a library or something, you still should be out looking for a job, working, or reading books in the library to further your knowledge so that you can get a job.

That is why I did not post anything yesterday or all day today. I've already gotten two interviews and put my resume in at at least 15 different places. I should have a job within a week, if not by Monday.

As far as internet...I don't have cable, and the $10/month for dial-up is well worth it for some entertainment.

 

[thepd7]

Originally posted by: CptFarlow

Originally posted by: thepd7

Originally posted by: CptFarlow
UPDATE

I went in yesterday and talked to my boss and manager. They say they didn't call Monday because they assumed I would come in to grab my paycheck. I didn't, but they still didn't call. They assumed the same thing Tuesday, and still didn't call. They kept beating around the bush about why they couldn't call me.

As far as why they let me go, I think they are taking it out on me when it wasn't my fault. During lunch last Friday, table 1 was a VIP. (A friend of the owner and usually a pain in my ass...they expect psychic service.) Two things went wrong: There was a hair in a salad and a piece of glass was in another dish. I didn't make the food and I didn't bring it up from the kitchen. He bought their lunch for them, but beforehand they bought desserts and coffee and espresso and everything else they could get for free. He said he let me go because of the complaint from that table. How ridiculous is that?

I'm willing to let it go. I was calm and respectful when I went in, and when he offered for me to work in the back of the house I didn't give an answer. I'm gonna call today and tell him no. They didn't treat me very well at all there...they expect you to take 9 or 10 tables at once and have all of them maintained perfectly.

To end, I wanted to share one experience that really showed the lack of respect my manager had for me. I was asking her a question at the host stand one day, and when some customers, some VIPs, were walking out, instead of letting them step around me, she decided to shove me out of the way so they could pass. I looked at her like she was crazy and the ladies thanked her for moving such an annoyance out of their path. That was a few weeks ago and it made me realize that these people don't have any respect for less fortunate human beings. (I'm poor and I struggle to buy food. They aren't and they don't.)

Bah, humbug.

EDIT: Fixed formatting

I can't but point out if you struggle to buy food you should not be paying for internet or have a computer. If you are posting from a library or something, you still should be out looking for a job, working, or reading books in the library to further your knowledge so that you can get a job.

That is why I did not post anything yesterday or all day today. I've already gotten two interviews and put my resume in at at least 15 different places. I should have a job within a week, if not by Monday.

As far as internet...I don't have cable, and the $10/month for dial-up is well worth it for some entertainment.

Really? If you are starving $10 of entertainment is better than $10 of food? Hrm, maybe I just have my priorities all wrong.

 

[daveymark]

you were late 3 times in one week? that's unacceptable. As I used to tell my waitstaff - "you need to work on your sense of urgency"

The glass/hair incident combined with chronic tardiness makes you a prime candidate for the boot.

your laziness may have been put up with at Tchotchkes, but private-owned restaurants can be hell.