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The past two nights have had me, the perpetual closing manager, working til about 3 and 1/2 hours after close . An hour past close is on a normally busy night, two hours on Friday-Saturday night thats extremely busy. But these two nights, I haven't even got all my paper work done- nothing crucial, but still 3 1/2 hours past close is INSANE in the hut- I'm only scheduled to take half an hour to close.
Thursday night- We have two freezers- then one decided to die- around 10 it was getting higher temps but still with in frozen range, then I checked it at 11:30- no. So then it was mad rush to figure out how to get alllllllll the dough from one dying freezer - that is considerably bigger than the working freezer. At least once I had to start from about scratch when in entire stack of dough nearly fell on me. So then I had to prep up some dough that had gone a little bit soft and would have been lost. Then I had to break down the maketable and go about finishing the rest of my work . So yeah I got out of there at 2:30AM on an 11 o'clock close- not really fun,especially considering that my store is in a shopping center right next to an apartment complex that has a reputation for being ....less than stellar- cops come through that particular complex frequently and it's not to socialize.
Last night, Friday night. As per usual, got a pop in the last hour between 11 and Midnight, (I HATE that extra hour on Friday and Saturday) and my closing driver didn't get back til 12:30 from his last run, meaning I couldn't even start really any of my closing paper work until then - he had my last credit card and last order w/ a coupon on it. So that took some time. Then I had to keep checking the OTHER freezer cause it had been running highish- just about at 10 degrees Farenheight which is juuuust at the cut off for food safety. By the time I clocked out at 3:10 or so, it had settled on 4 degrees Farenheight, but damn was I paranoid. So between that and more dough prep, and STILL not getting my paper work all done (though today all I have to do is sign the tickets that didn't have coupons ) And because I was rather tired from the night before, I was easily distracted by every noise in that place and I was MAJORLY dragging. So, at 3:23 I was finally in my car heading home.
I REALLY want a slow day today. I would love to be home before 3 AM, really I would
Thursday night- We have two freezers- then one decided to die- around 10 it was getting higher temps but still with in frozen range, then I checked it at 11:30- no. So then it was mad rush to figure out how to get alllllllll the dough from one dying freezer - that is considerably bigger than the working freezer. At least once I had to start from about scratch when in entire stack of dough nearly fell on me. So then I had to prep up some dough that had gone a little bit soft and would have been lost. Then I had to break down the maketable and go about finishing the rest of my work . So yeah I got out of there at 2:30AM on an 11 o'clock close- not really fun,especially considering that my store is in a shopping center right next to an apartment complex that has a reputation for being ....less than stellar- cops come through that particular complex frequently and it's not to socialize.
Last night, Friday night. As per usual, got a pop in the last hour between 11 and Midnight, (I HATE that extra hour on Friday and Saturday) and my closing driver didn't get back til 12:30 from his last run, meaning I couldn't even start really any of my closing paper work until then - he had my last credit card and last order w/ a coupon on it. So that took some time. Then I had to keep checking the OTHER freezer cause it had been running highish- just about at 10 degrees Farenheight which is juuuust at the cut off for food safety. By the time I clocked out at 3:10 or so, it had settled on 4 degrees Farenheight, but damn was I paranoid. So between that and more dough prep, and STILL not getting my paper work all done (though today all I have to do is sign the tickets that didn't have coupons ) And because I was rather tired from the night before, I was easily distracted by every noise in that place and I was MAJORLY dragging. So, at 3:23 I was finally in my car heading home.
I REALLY want a slow day today. I would love to be home before 3 AM, really I would
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