slleipnir
12-22-2007, 10:37 PM
I wasn't going to bother posting this until the New Year as I'm sure this is the last thing people want to read this time of year. However, I don't expect many to read, I really just need to get it out of my system. As dumb as it is, I've been so frustrated that I'm not sleeping well....sorry this will be long D:
A while ago I posted this thread about the cook being a j**k and making my job difficult. http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthread.php?t=136848
I work in the bar/pub in a hotel.
Basically I have a regular group in every Thursday. They knew about these cheaper wings they could get special for them. First week it wasn't cooked right, second week there wasn't any, so for the third week I said "for sure" we'll have them! The cook knew about this, but come that week claimed he didn't know and they couldn't have them....there was more to it then that but it's all in the other thread.
So my customers saw me upset over it all, and said they wanted to talk to the head person of the business. So the bar manager gave them the president of the company's number and they all called him the next day. I went to see him myself but he wasn't there. So I went to see the hotel manager, but she wasn't there.
After the weekend I'm called into work for a meeting. We all explain our sides of the story. The cook lies about everything making me look bad. I tell manager I have someone else who can back me up. Manager doesn't want to hear it. Meeting ends with manager yelling that I should NOT under NO circumstances have told the customers about the cook. Urg. Now, she seems to think I can't not be trusted with any information as I will tell every person who comes into the bar. Which is dumb. I ALWAYS make excuses for the cook. However, that night I was sick of it, and I felt my regulars deserved to know why they never seem to get the food they want. I would never tell some random person I never met before.
Also, the meeting ended with manager saying for me and cook not to work together. Fine by me. Only the next week I find out I'm scheduled with him. *SIGH* I ask manager why this is after he meeting we had. She said I'm jumping to conclusions and assuming he will do it again, and I'm only looking for trouble...! *growl* I can understand he saying this if it were the first time..or maybe the second...I've been working with him for about 6 years and he hasn't changed since, is it wrong for me to assume he never will?? Especially when manager lets him away with it. Plus, she's only been our manager for a little over a year, maybe 2 years now...
So then she calls me back and says "Speaking of looking for trouble, he doesn't work with you THIS week, it's NEXT week" what does it matter?! how is that looking for trouble just cause I mixed the week up? gawd.
Then at our xmas party she gives pretty much everyone a xmas present but me (full time) and a few of the people who only work the odd shift. Now, I don't care if I get a present, but it makes me feel like crap that she gives one to pretty much everyone but me. I put up with a lot, I'm good at my job, and a hard worker. She never says "hey Audrey, thanks for the hard work" o "thanks for dumping the loto machines even though it's not your job and I'd have to come in otherwise" She makes me feel like I'm a worthless, troublemaker who is unappreciated.
Ok so I imagen everyone is thinking "why the heck do you work there?" well, there are a few reasons. My mom is the bar manager and we are extremely short staffed. No one wants to stay there so it's pretty much me and her. She would be in so much trouble staffwise if I left. Although I warned her that I will not keep putting myself through this much longer. Another reason is my customers. I really love my regulars and I would miss them so much if I quit. They make my job sooooo much better. and also, I'm so comfortable there. I know my job, I know my customers.
Please, be honest....do you think what I did was ok? Does it sound to you like I'm looking for trouble??
All I want is to go into work, ring in food orders and go upstairs to find it ready without worrying if it will be there, or if the cook will cook it. I asked manager "is this so much to ask for??" and she didn't answer. She said I had to work it out myself, and that it's as much my fault for this whole thing as it is the cooks. I asked her if she could explain to me what it was that I did to make the cook not cook the food or tell people they can't order stuff before we're closed? I'd like to know so I can not do it again. She just gets annoyed.
It makes me so angry it's not funny. I REALLY want to work there, but I don't know why no one can see it from my point of view. The manger could care less if I'm happy. She treats the cook better then she does me, and he talks crap about her all the time....what am I doing wrong?
sorry this is so long. feel free to ignore me
A while ago I posted this thread about the cook being a j**k and making my job difficult. http://petoftheday.com/talk/showthread.php?t=136848
I work in the bar/pub in a hotel.
Basically I have a regular group in every Thursday. They knew about these cheaper wings they could get special for them. First week it wasn't cooked right, second week there wasn't any, so for the third week I said "for sure" we'll have them! The cook knew about this, but come that week claimed he didn't know and they couldn't have them....there was more to it then that but it's all in the other thread.
So my customers saw me upset over it all, and said they wanted to talk to the head person of the business. So the bar manager gave them the president of the company's number and they all called him the next day. I went to see him myself but he wasn't there. So I went to see the hotel manager, but she wasn't there.
After the weekend I'm called into work for a meeting. We all explain our sides of the story. The cook lies about everything making me look bad. I tell manager I have someone else who can back me up. Manager doesn't want to hear it. Meeting ends with manager yelling that I should NOT under NO circumstances have told the customers about the cook. Urg. Now, she seems to think I can't not be trusted with any information as I will tell every person who comes into the bar. Which is dumb. I ALWAYS make excuses for the cook. However, that night I was sick of it, and I felt my regulars deserved to know why they never seem to get the food they want. I would never tell some random person I never met before.
Also, the meeting ended with manager saying for me and cook not to work together. Fine by me. Only the next week I find out I'm scheduled with him. *SIGH* I ask manager why this is after he meeting we had. She said I'm jumping to conclusions and assuming he will do it again, and I'm only looking for trouble...! *growl* I can understand he saying this if it were the first time..or maybe the second...I've been working with him for about 6 years and he hasn't changed since, is it wrong for me to assume he never will?? Especially when manager lets him away with it. Plus, she's only been our manager for a little over a year, maybe 2 years now...
So then she calls me back and says "Speaking of looking for trouble, he doesn't work with you THIS week, it's NEXT week" what does it matter?! how is that looking for trouble just cause I mixed the week up? gawd.
Then at our xmas party she gives pretty much everyone a xmas present but me (full time) and a few of the people who only work the odd shift. Now, I don't care if I get a present, but it makes me feel like crap that she gives one to pretty much everyone but me. I put up with a lot, I'm good at my job, and a hard worker. She never says "hey Audrey, thanks for the hard work" o "thanks for dumping the loto machines even though it's not your job and I'd have to come in otherwise" She makes me feel like I'm a worthless, troublemaker who is unappreciated.
Ok so I imagen everyone is thinking "why the heck do you work there?" well, there are a few reasons. My mom is the bar manager and we are extremely short staffed. No one wants to stay there so it's pretty much me and her. She would be in so much trouble staffwise if I left. Although I warned her that I will not keep putting myself through this much longer. Another reason is my customers. I really love my regulars and I would miss them so much if I quit. They make my job sooooo much better. and also, I'm so comfortable there. I know my job, I know my customers.
Please, be honest....do you think what I did was ok? Does it sound to you like I'm looking for trouble??
All I want is to go into work, ring in food orders and go upstairs to find it ready without worrying if it will be there, or if the cook will cook it. I asked manager "is this so much to ask for??" and she didn't answer. She said I had to work it out myself, and that it's as much my fault for this whole thing as it is the cooks. I asked her if she could explain to me what it was that I did to make the cook not cook the food or tell people they can't order stuff before we're closed? I'd like to know so I can not do it again. She just gets annoyed.
It makes me so angry it's not funny. I REALLY want to work there, but I don't know why no one can see it from my point of view. The manger could care less if I'm happy. She treats the cook better then she does me, and he talks crap about her all the time....what am I doing wrong?
sorry this is so long. feel free to ignore me