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I'm jobless again. Although this time it's by choice. I worked in a restaurant as a dishwasher/ line cook/ prep cook/ grill cook. I had a general manager who was literally lazy. He never did his job. Then I had a kitchen manager 1 step below the general manager who was the best. He did an excellent job of managing the restaurant, actually got his hands dirty helping everyone, and definately helped me out a lot. He said not only was I his favorite worker, but his best worker. Anytime he worked, people were actually scheduled. But the general manager mostly does the scheduling. That means that he doesn't schedule people for certain shifts, so I could be busting my *** working up to 3 peoples jobs at a time for 12-15 hours without even a 5 minute break. That's no exaggeration and it was like that every single day for the past 2 months. Some people quit which made it even worse because we were short on employees as is. With no other employees, a bunch of current employees who either get sent home early or don't do their job, it left me with a LOT of work, not to mention they all get paid more than me. The manager's kept promising me a raise, but I never got one. Not to mention I actually saved everyones jobs there.
The head manager wasn't doing his job correctly so everything fell onto us and the other 3 managers. The regional manager and president of the company wanted to come in and fire everyone if food cost wasn't down. I spent sometimes as much as 3 hours working after my shift for FREE cleaning the place and managing the place the best I can and got food cost down and made the place look good. No one got fired and the president and regional manager said it was one the cleanest out of all the restaurants in the chain.
I worked there 8 1/2 months now and only called off twice due to sickness, and only been late 1 time. I never requested days off. 3 weeks ago, I requested 1 day off [may 7th] (other employees request as many as 3-4 days off at a time every other week) and my general manager wouldn't give me the day off but gave the day off to two others who signed up AFTER me which would make me do their jobs that day. So all in all, I feel like I was really screwed over. I feel like I let my kitchen manager down because he won't have anyone as good as me and he was just really good to me.
That's just pretty much my rant.
I made the decision to speak to my kitchen manager tomorrow and put in a two weeks notice. But I really got screwed over tonight while everyone was able to sit around and eat (they're not allowed) and no one offered any help to me even though I was doing 3 shifts for people who called off and didn't show up.
Finding another job may take some time not but not long. I'll do whatever it takes even if I have to pack my bags and leave to find one. But I'm really thinking about getting started on my real future. I always seen college as nothing but an investment because not everyone who gets a degree gets a job. I was going to wait a couple years and work to save money then go to the police academy. At this point, I'm not sure what I should do. If I should go to the police academy next year, or wait just a couple more years working to save money so I'm not broke while in the academy. I kind of don't know where I'm headed in life at this point.
I'm pretty upset because I feel like a quitter and I've never gave up on anything or anyone until now.
The head manager wasn't doing his job correctly so everything fell onto us and the other 3 managers. The regional manager and president of the company wanted to come in and fire everyone if food cost wasn't down. I spent sometimes as much as 3 hours working after my shift for FREE cleaning the place and managing the place the best I can and got food cost down and made the place look good. No one got fired and the president and regional manager said it was one the cleanest out of all the restaurants in the chain.
I worked there 8 1/2 months now and only called off twice due to sickness, and only been late 1 time. I never requested days off. 3 weeks ago, I requested 1 day off [may 7th] (other employees request as many as 3-4 days off at a time every other week) and my general manager wouldn't give me the day off but gave the day off to two others who signed up AFTER me which would make me do their jobs that day. So all in all, I feel like I was really screwed over. I feel like I let my kitchen manager down because he won't have anyone as good as me and he was just really good to me.
That's just pretty much my rant.
I made the decision to speak to my kitchen manager tomorrow and put in a two weeks notice. But I really got screwed over tonight while everyone was able to sit around and eat (they're not allowed) and no one offered any help to me even though I was doing 3 shifts for people who called off and didn't show up.
Finding another job may take some time not but not long. I'll do whatever it takes even if I have to pack my bags and leave to find one. But I'm really thinking about getting started on my real future. I always seen college as nothing but an investment because not everyone who gets a degree gets a job. I was going to wait a couple years and work to save money then go to the police academy. At this point, I'm not sure what I should do. If I should go to the police academy next year, or wait just a couple more years working to save money so I'm not broke while in the academy. I kind of don't know where I'm headed in life at this point.
I'm pretty upset because I feel like a quitter and I've never gave up on anything or anyone until now.
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