Originally Posted by
Captain
i have to agree.. before i did bridal consulting was working as assistant manager in a wings n tenders kind of restaurant with a bar, fast casual, nothing fancy.. story begins as i get a job as a waiter there, over the next several months i get promoted to cashier ( yes that was a PROMOTION can ya believe it?) then to dish washer, then to prep cook to shift cook then bartender...finally then being promoted assistant manager " oh but captain sounds like you was well taken care of in that position" heh ur WRONG, about 2 months in after a horrendous restaurant launch i came upon the owner in the office dang near tears cuase 5 people had just quit that day.. i made him a promise " as long as you own this place you dont turn your back on me and i wont turn my back on you" , these was words i thought he took to heart.
yes being the horrible romantic i am i thought that actualy ment something. Fast forward 2 years of a catastrophic mess of a resturant going down the tubes ..totaly out of control, 2 years of showing up around sunrise for truck deliveries then staying till after 1 in the morning to clean up for the night, double shifts back to back, money spent out of my own meager salary ( averaged it out to be about 5.37 an hour) to buy cleaning supplies, some cases even FOOD to stock the restaruant with becuase he was too stuborn to pay for it himself.
i stood on through SEVERAL staff changes i outlasted FIVE GENERAL MANAGERS..well 6 if you count the 19 year old nephew he put in charge when the place first opend...i dont..BUT anyway just picture the SINGLE most dysfunctional resturant in america.. this was it long hours bitching customers, not enough cleaning supplies or food to last a shift lack of management to the point people set thier own hours, missed days when they felt like it, came in two hours late big deal people was cuaght stealing from the register , was told they was fired, kept working anyway. this was a job that drained my very soul just to show up to each day but i held my promise.. i was the single most hard working , and faithful employee he had in that place.. and no thats not an over inflated ego that is simply the truth..some dumb blonde waitress thought she was the hardest working employee there when she sat on her butt 2-3 hours at a time cuase of no customers..that sadly was the norm for people working there.
So ok that wasnt reall a fast forward but now here it is..2 years later.. after blood ( actual blood blood like bleeding from my body not just a term) sweat and tears put into that promise i held with him... when a health inspector showed up and the resurant failed inspection ( 12 critical violations i think it was?) and i will have you know all these violations was not my mishandling of food but HIS failures as an owner..not paying $2800 dollars to have the leaking walk in refigerator fixed , being too cheap to have the grease interceptors pumped once a month.. ALL of this COMPLETELY his fault...who is the FIRST person he turns to , after the inspector leaves he turns his stupid middle eastern mug to me like " i thought you would never do this to me... why you do this to me ive been good to you, YOU cuase me to fail this inspection , you backstab me is what you did!"
Now i do not claim to be the BEST employee.. i may have been the most faithful and hard working but i do know i had my faults,everyone does. But to experience just a total abandonment after such loyal service.. to be cast aside mentaly like that anyway, was devestating.
" oh but captain what about those promotions you got you made it to assistant manager..that was him regocnizing your hard work" WRONG again..first off show me an assistant manager for a successful resturant that would would for 5.37 an hour ( yes that is below ohio minimum wage but he had me on salary system so my pay wasnt caclulated by the hour) and then also consider those several staff changes.. I WAS THE ONLY ONE LEFT to freakin promote.. i SHOULD have taken a clue, but i was just too stuborn and thought honor still ment something in todays work force.
For awhile i was angry... furious even...even as i continued to slave away till the final day he closed his doors. but i owe that man alot.. he tuaght me SO much about the resturant biz... even if he was providing prime example of what NOT to do he still tuaght me ALOT so im grateful for that part of him in my life. But as for a job in corporate america... ( even tho assistant manager in resturant isnt exactly office work its still susceptable to the hierachy of management obviously)...screw them...screw them to hell and let them rot there if they are going to look down on me for doing a little hiking.. ive been MORE than loyal to that system only to have it dishonor ME in return.. people still need to work obviously but i will never again go so far out of my way to please what a hiring manager "wants" to hear out of me., if i find myself in an assistant manager ( GM god forbid) job again( doubtful)i will be professional.. i will show up on time and do my job to the best of my ability... but whatever problem the higher ups are having...exactly that..thier problem , any job i work for will understand THEY dont hire ME .. I hire THEM i CHOOSE to work there, whocares if they have millions of people groping for a job.. in ANY economy there is always a need for skilled professional hard working employees,,that never changes... infact a bad economy works out better in my favor.. more employers scrutinizing who isnt " making the cut" anymore and this is not ment to bash anyone who has lost a job to the economy but the ONLY thing im saying with ALL this ranting is the hiring managers seem to think they hold the power with the hiring choice, rather it is the lower employee who holds the power becuase it is THIER grease and hardwork that makes the company run so any manager that doesnt respect that you have a life, that includes hiking more like than not if you reading this post here on this website, you do not want to work for anyway.. they have to realize you have a life outside of work, if they cant appreciate that i tell them then i cant appreciate working for your company and i walk out, ive been lucky having success with the self employment thing, allows me to live and work the schedule I want but even after i quit , i will not go back to work for another company run like how that saudi i worked for ran things ( and no thats not a derogitory term thats where he was actualy born)
( by the way one last little thing i will share with you.. for the tax year of 2006 i earned an estimated 12-15k dollars.. when i got my w-2 do you know how much it said i had gotten paid? FIFTEEN HUNDRED yeah thats $1,500..i thought oh surely this is just a typo ill take it to him and have him fix it.. he swears up and down thats all i made and that i paid zero taxes out of my checks that year, really checks is a bad term since he paid cash and had us sign for it...i was having 70 dollars " tax" taken out each week and ill never see another penny of that money again, the dam thief)
Returning and Reentry
Reply With Quote
