This thread is also part Cursing Out Co-Workers
Worked a kitchen shift, and it was absolutely dead. For the last two hours I was there I didn’t have a single food order through and I had the place cleaned and closed well before my finishing time. All I had to do was wait for 9pm when the pub officially stopped serving food. I spent my time sitting on the counter swinging my legs and playing on my phone.
9pm arrived. I immediately started turning things off. I emptied the oil from the fryers into a large metal container and pulled off the grill and left it to soak in some hot soapy water for the night. I was going home.
9:02pm
SEVEN food orders came through. All burgers. One problem. No fryers to cook the fries and no grill to cook the burger. Oh, and it was past fucking closing time! I stormed out the kitchen.
Me: Who put the food through??
Useless co-worker put her hand up.
UCW: Me. Why?
Me: Uhh…it’s past 9. I’ve turned everything off and dumped the fryers. I can’t cook ANY of that food. You’re going to have to tell the customer.
UCW: Well the customer is right here-
SC jumped in.
SC: WHAT DID YOU SAY??
Me: I can’t cook that food. The kitchen has closed and I’ve turned everything off.
SC: Well I guess you’re just going to have to turn it back on again!!
Me: I can’t. The grill is currently soaking in chemicals and I can’t touch the oil for the fryers because it’s too hot. I closed it all down as soon as it hit 9pm.
SC: Well you shouldn’t have been so eager to go home!!! That’s your fault!!! Where’s the manager??!! He’ll make you do it!
Me: It’s not a question of “making me do it”. I actually CANNOT do it.
Manager appeared and just about face palmed. He had to refund all seven meals. The customer brought his six friends up to the bar. Each one of them had a go at him.
SC1: MAKE HIM DO IT!
M: I cannot make him. He can’t do it because it would be unsafe!
SC2: What’s he doing closing it all down anyway?
M: Because it was closing time.
SC3: But we were at the bar BEFORE it closed!
M: I can do nothing but apologise and give you your money back. All I can suggest is that you maybe order a little earlier.
SC4: He was at the bar at 8:59! He should have been able to get food!
This went around in circles for over five minutes. They eventually went away.
UCW: They were at the bar before the kitchen closed. I thought it would be OK.
Me: Not at 8:59! You should have come to the kitchen and told me before you rang it through. I would have been able to do it that way!
UCW: Well…you were a little too keen closing it all down.
Me: Yeah. How dare I close at the scheduled time!
Worked a kitchen shift, and it was absolutely dead. For the last two hours I was there I didn’t have a single food order through and I had the place cleaned and closed well before my finishing time. All I had to do was wait for 9pm when the pub officially stopped serving food. I spent my time sitting on the counter swinging my legs and playing on my phone.
9pm arrived. I immediately started turning things off. I emptied the oil from the fryers into a large metal container and pulled off the grill and left it to soak in some hot soapy water for the night. I was going home.
9:02pm
SEVEN food orders came through. All burgers. One problem. No fryers to cook the fries and no grill to cook the burger. Oh, and it was past fucking closing time! I stormed out the kitchen.
Me: Who put the food through??
Useless co-worker put her hand up.
UCW: Me. Why?
Me: Uhh…it’s past 9. I’ve turned everything off and dumped the fryers. I can’t cook ANY of that food. You’re going to have to tell the customer.
UCW: Well the customer is right here-
SC jumped in.
SC: WHAT DID YOU SAY??
Me: I can’t cook that food. The kitchen has closed and I’ve turned everything off.
SC: Well I guess you’re just going to have to turn it back on again!!
Me: I can’t. The grill is currently soaking in chemicals and I can’t touch the oil for the fryers because it’s too hot. I closed it all down as soon as it hit 9pm.
SC: Well you shouldn’t have been so eager to go home!!! That’s your fault!!! Where’s the manager??!! He’ll make you do it!
Me: It’s not a question of “making me do it”. I actually CANNOT do it.
Manager appeared and just about face palmed. He had to refund all seven meals. The customer brought his six friends up to the bar. Each one of them had a go at him.
SC1: MAKE HIM DO IT!
M: I cannot make him. He can’t do it because it would be unsafe!
SC2: What’s he doing closing it all down anyway?
M: Because it was closing time.
SC3: But we were at the bar BEFORE it closed!
M: I can do nothing but apologise and give you your money back. All I can suggest is that you maybe order a little earlier.
SC4: He was at the bar at 8:59! He should have been able to get food!
This went around in circles for over five minutes. They eventually went away.
UCW: They were at the bar before the kitchen closed. I thought it would be OK.
Me: Not at 8:59! You should have come to the kitchen and told me before you rang it through. I would have been able to do it that way!
UCW: Well…you were a little too keen closing it all down.
Me: Yeah. How dare I close at the scheduled time!
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