Happy Holidays
Now fuck off.I'm dead serious. What you call the holidays, a relaxing magical time filled with friends, family, parties, good cheer, presents and good food is something else to me and the millions of others that work in the service industry. To us, this is the busy season.
Mind you, a lot of aspects of working in a restaurant are exhausting as it is: you're on your feet all of the time running to and fro for long hours. Now, let's add to your workload, extend your hours and take away one day of your weekend. You've got four banquets going out at the same time in a kitchen that could maybe handle three of them (on a good day) with a crew that is staffed to only handle three (and that doesn't include the balls to the wall lunch service that you have going on while you're trying to prep for the afternoon's banquet). Plus, you get those lovely short nights where you're in until 10 getting the banquets out and then up at dawn to get prepped for the next day's work.
Thanksgiving? Christmas? Christmas Day? New Year's Eve? New Year's Day? *shrug* someone's gotta cook all that food ... one of those someones is me. If you wonder why I seem to be grumpy over the holidays, if you wonder why you don't get that service with a smile from another service employee over the holidays, just know that we're in the weeds.
Oh, and that one day you thought you had free this weekend? Guess what, we just had a banquet sign on at short notice. Sorry, but you're coming in.
Happy holidays.
1 Comments:
You know how it goes Marty...hotels get the benies but ya gotta work the holidays. Restaurants or atleast good ones for that matter get no benies but have the days off. I'm off from the 25th thru 30th, and then the 2nd and 3rd. This being said I am working 6 days throughout the month and Thursday, Friday, Sats are bonecrushing, but again, on the bright side I get tip share, so when its busy I'm making that money. Yeah Marty, this blog isn't for your readers, its for you to ponder and think about leaving the bowels of the food industry...the PINCHE HOTEL. Benies are muy importante pero yo no voy skiing anytime soon with my pay and time schedule. Sabes? Either way, hang in Marty and remember, the Super Bowl is the one that really hurts. Just a little incentive. By the way I don't understand why they never hired you at that swank restaurant you were working at. YOU ARE a good enough cook to be a full time member of any team. Why not them? Can you elaborate?
L8
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