You know what, I didn't blow off enough steam with my last post. I must bitch more to prevent losing my... not sanity but whatever I do have. Let's go with equilibrium. The following is a list of work related issues I am pissed about, not including the hypocrisy and unpaid mandatory meetings already discussed previously.
1.) My equipment is decrepit and old, yet I am expected to turn out high quality meals with it.
2.) Little to no funding is given to the kitchen. We are constantly running out of important stuff like milk and sugar during the weekend and I am often given some of the crappiest stuff to cook so the week shift can have the good stuff.
3.) My sinks have been busted for four months. No effort has been made to fix them.
4.) The boss is such a die-hard anti-smoker that current policy for smokers (everyone else, nearly) is that we must get in our cars, and DRIVE AWAY from work to take a smoke break.
5.) I have all the responsibilities of a manager, with 0 actual authority with which to see that said responsibilities are actually met. I cannot force people to do their jobs if I have neither a carrot nor a stick!
6.) I am currently being hounded about the clients not having enough time to finish their meals. I did not make the schedule with its time limits on each group that eats, nor the state freaking laws that require those limits. I already do everything I can to get them in and done on time, I cannot help it if those who are assigned to work in the kitchen are as slow as old people sex and therefore short themselves on time to eat.
7.) If for some reason I miss a day of work, the things that are supposed to be done that day WILL NOT BE DONE, despite a full checklist of these things being left on the counter. Thus I had to do this week's cleaning and an assload of last week's today.
8.) The place is so infested with mice that clients (and myself) are sometimes required to step on one to get rid of it. Despite this, the only action taken so far was to buy a pack of mouse traps to set out. After six requests for such from me alone. No sign of my recommendation that they get in touch with an actual exterminator.
9.) There is a plague of black mold growing in the kitchen ceiling. No action is being taken as of this time, even though it is growing so fast new spores appear on the dining room windows every day.
10.) There are sometimes children at the center with their moms. This would actually be one in the plus column for me, cause I love kids, except their mothers, being addicts in treatment, often suck balls at parenting and I get really frazzled keeping them in the dining room and away from the hot as fuck oven/grill/deep fryer/etc and the drawers full of knives.
Ok, ten is a good number to stop at, otherwise we'll have an entire thread worth of me counting the ways I hate where I work. Thank you all for letting me blow off some steam before I lose it and set fire to the place.
Also, who says you can't spend it with friends? :3 EATING ICECREAM AND BEING FOREVER ALONE WITH YOUR ALSO FOREVER ALONE FRIENDS CAN BE A MAGICAL EXPERIENCE. And if you think it's corporations wanting money, well don't buy anything then. Make a card, it's sweet. ♥
when someone just randomly enters my room, TALKS RANDOMLY LOUD.. while I'm in the middle of recording something, SERIOUSLY, WHAT THE HECK.
