My Diary

Entry 119

August 16, 2021
3:42 P.M.
Monday

Finally, a day off work...haha. Hello! Welcome back! My job be tiring me the fuck out, but not shocking when I work 9 P.M. to 7 A.M. back to back, 4 nights in a row. I wish I could have a day off like after 2 days of working to have a breather and then work the next 2 nights or something because this is honestly so exhausting. But oh well. They're only scheduling me and one other server 9-7 only for some reason, so yeah. And of course I work Thursday-Sunday so I work the weekends, thus I work the busy nights. More money, sure, but I'm fucking tired, hahaha. So I'm a bit irritated with some things going on at work so I guess I just feel like venting it here right now.

So a big problem we're having at work right now is that they keep hiring nothing, but minors. And of course, there's nothing wrong with hiring minors. I have no problem with working with kids...if they actually worked. You see where this is going, aren't you? So we're having a problem with lazy ass kids not working and not doing shit. They don't do any of their prep work or side chores, which leaves me and the rest of the night shift to clean up after them. Which is not cool! We shouldn't have to do their shift's chores and then mine. It's exhausting. Last night infuriated me. They didn't do jack! For example, they didn't make tea and were still using the tea that I made from the night prior. That's disgusting! After 12 hours, you're supposed to change it. They know this. Like I made that tea around 4 in the morning, which means new tea needs to be made around 4 in the afternoon at the latest. So why the hell am I coming in at 9 at night and they're still using my tea made at 4? That is gross! Also, on the off chance they actually do make new tea, they don't fucking label it so I don't know what time the tea is made, which is really annoying because obviously, I need to know when the tea goes bad so I can make fresh tea for when it does. This shit is pissing me off because it's not that fucking hard. If my dumbass can do it, then anyone can. And I'm really starting to lose my patience. I've always been trying to be as nice as possible because I don't like confrontation and also, because I don't want to come off as being a bitch and stuff. But I'm at my breaking point now and I'm just tired. I'm fucking tired. Last night was my fourth night in a row, so I'm exhausted, okay? And I walked in last night to check the teas and of course, on one of them they're still using my tea from the night prior (which I've already made cleared is fucking gross) and in the other urn, it's not labelled. And I literally just yelled "WHY THE FUCK IS THIS NOT LABELLED!?" And they all look at me like I'm crazy. And then one of them was like "Oh, that's the tea from last night. YOU didn't label it." And I'm just thinking "Bitch, really?" One, I know I labelled my tea. I always label my teas. And secondly, even if I didn't...it's gone bad already at this time of day! It should of been dumped out and fresh tea should of been made. So no girl, you aren't in the right here. Don't try to put the blame on me. And also, it's not just the tea they can't do. They can't do ANY of their side chores! Some good examples would be filling up the ice for drinks, stocking up on to-go containers, sweeping and mopping, filling up the salt and pepper shakers and napkin dispensers, and yadda yadda. You get the point. But did they do that? NO! The place was a literal wreck when I entered. And let me say, what I hate most is walking in to a sink full of dishes. I HATE being stuck left cleaning up the last shift's dishes. And I don't understand why they can't do it. Like it's not that hard to keep up with the dishes. You clean off a table and immediately wash the dishes and put them in the rack. That's what I do. It's not that fucking hard. But no, these lazy ass kids just let the dishes pile up in the sink and then leave, making me and the rest of night shift to clean them. And I'm fucking done. Like bitch, I don't think so. I can understand when it gets busy, trust me, but it's still not hard to keep up with the dishes. I remember one night when the place was packed until like 4, like so packed that there were customers standing, waiting for a table to open because all the tables were already full, and guess what? The other servers and I were still able to keep up with the dishes and wash them, even though the place is packed. Hell, it should be easier to keep up with the dishes during the afternoon shift since more servers are scheduled during that shift than the night. You get what I mean? Like while some of the other servers are busy taking tables in their section, the other servers who aren't taking any tables can be washing some dishes. Also, some of these kids are just too lazy to take tables! Like this one girl, Anela, she's a sweet girl, don't get me wrong, but she's lazy as fuck. She literally doesn't take half the tables in her section and then wonder why she's not making much money. Because you make your money from your tips, honey, not your salary and if you're not taking tables, you're not getting any tips. But yeah, like I remember one night, a group sat at a table in her section and she was just like "I don't want them" and she went outside. Like really, bitch? It's just annoying and stressful to have to worry about my section and her section at the same time, especially when it's busy. We're all given a section for a damn reason. Should I mention that literally the other night, she slept in one of the cook's car for half the shift and left me serving alone? Yeah, that fucking happened. Also the annoying thing about working with minors is that they have to get breaks every 4 hours. Obviously, that's not their fault. I don't blame them for that. But like the other night, there were 3 servers: me and 2 minors. So I proposed an idea that one of them take a break early at 12:30 and then the other takes a break at 1:00 so I'm not serving all on my own in a full house. Guess what these bitches did? Both took a break at 12:30 and left me serving on my own when the place was fucking packed. It just pisses me off. And the cook was all like "Why are you so mad? You were able to handle it." Because it's fucking stressful and exhausting to take care of every table in the restaurant when it's fucking packed! Like oh my God. There were 3 servers scheduled for a fucking reason...but yeah, I think y'all get my point by now. I'm tired of cleaning up their mess, especially when I got my shift's chores to do on top of that and I'm tired of them leaving me hanging and leaving me hanging constantly. And you're probably thinking "Well Zoe, why don't you go tell your boss?" And I will answer that I fucking have. One of the other night servers, Jamie was very vocal about this to him. But does he care? No! And I remember last week, he was all like "So what's the problem you guys are having with second shift?" And I just said "Motherfucker, you already know the problems." Like are you serious!? He knows they don't do their work, but he doesn't care! He doesn't get on their asses about it. And honestly, I think it's because we're just really short staffed so you can practically get away with anything at the moment, but I still wish something was done, you know? I'm tired of being walked all over on. And last night when I came in, I was telling my boyfriend about how that girl, Anela literally slept half the shift and he just asked "Did you tell anyone about it?" And I just replied "No, because you know they aren't going to do shit about it" and he just said "Yeah, you're right." And let me say, I feel so bad for my boyfriend because he's always stuck working with these kids in the afternoons. All I gotta say is that he has the patience of a god because I would of killed these kids by now, just saying. Then again, you gotta have a lot of patience to deal with me, haha. And everyday, he is constantly asking me to work the afternoons with him because he really wants to work with me, which is sweet and all...but I don't want to work with those kids constantly. No way in hell. And I straight out told him that the other night and he said he completely understood because he hates working with them too. Like at one point in the conversation I mentioned how one of the minors, Ellena was telling me how she thinks my boyfriend hates her or something because he's apparently really passive aggressive with her all the time. And he just said "It's not that I don't like her, it's just that she doesn't do shit or pay any attention and it gets annoying after awhile." Which is true, that girl don't pay attention whatsoever. Like I remember one night, my mom was working with us (my mom's a cook) and my mom called out that the order was finished. But Ellena was paying no attention. She was just yapping and yapping away to Anela and eventually my mom went into her ear and just screamed that the order was up. Like Jesus Christ, take your food to the damn customers. But yeah, Anela and Ellena are just really bad servers and workers in general so it makes perfect sense that they're best friends. My boyfriend calls them "The Wonder Twins" all the time, hahaha. But yeah, this is just really annoying and infuriating and I'm pretty much sick of it.

Also, I wanna talk about how we're scheduled pretty quick because this is some bullshit too. So me and one of the other night time servers, Jamie are like the only ones ever scheduled 9-7, the full shift. Every other server is only scheduled 9-2. Which I don't understand why...so on Fridays and Saturdays, we tend to have 2 servers scheduled 9-7 and one scheduled 9-2 since those are the busier nights. Every other day, we're usually scheduled one server 9-7 and another 9-2. Originally, both Jamie and I worked 9-7 together on Fridays and on Saturdays, had me working 9-7 with one of the other servers, Mariah or Joseph. However, Joseph ended up quitting and Jamie doesn't wanna work weekends. So Jamie is now working 9-7 Monday-Thursday and I work 9-7 on Thursday-Sunday. So yeah, Jamie and I now both stay all night on Thursday, which is weird because beforehand, they only had one server staying all night on Thursdays. So now we're having trouble staffing the busy nights. You're probably thinking "Why not let Mariah work 9-7 with you on Fridays and Saturdays?" And I agree! Why not? But for some reason, they won't ever schedule her 9-7 anymore. She's only scheduled 9-2 now. Which is annoying because one, she actually does her fucking job but secondly, she's not a minor. She's an adult so I don't have to worry about her going on break and leaving me all alone. But no instead, for example, on Friday night, they made Anela work from 5 P.M. to 7 A.M. Like what the fuck? Why are you making this girl work 14 hours when you could of just called in Mariah? Hell, Mariah has even been telling them they should schedule her 9-7 with me on Fridays and Saturdays, but nope. It's just ridiculous to make someone work that long, especially a minor, even if she is shitty at the job. And I just told Anela that the next time they ask her to work that long to straight out tell them no because that's some bullshit. Like I said, they should just have Mariah work with me or something, you know? Also, they just love to change the schedule constantly and not tell us they changed the schedule. For example, Mariah was originally scheduled to work 9-4 on Friday night but it was changed to have me and Anela working 9-7 and Ellena 9-2 but because they didn't inform her of this, she ended up coming in on a day she was now off on. Which is just some bullshit. All I gotta say is we definitely have a huge lack of communication at my job. Anything I ever hear about what's going on at work is from either my mom or my boyfriend. Do I ever hear anything from my bosses? No! Of course not. Why would they do that? Just ugh...this job is annoying...