After-Shift Drink: No Respect For Servers' Time

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Vlog mentioned in vid about WHY I have worked @ so many restaurants:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84I0WW3w_RE

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[SpookyJillian]

Our schedule comes out on Sat nights at 10pm (we close at 11pm) Since the managers don't get there until 3pm which is the same time as the opening server, you are forced to get your schedule in that single hour time block.

Drinking tea still cause I am sick as a dog.

[YourDailyTip]

@SpookyJillian Classic.

[katieweimer]

Drinking a beam manhattan . Mr. Waiter Man, I certainly appreciate this ASD. I myself have been fired....FIRED!.... because of this lack of consideration! Schedules coming out at the absolute last minute. I missed a shift by two hours because I had absolutely no idea I had been scheduled. I did get my job back after explaining to a higher up but in the mean time I had two weeks of no work. So much STRESS that in my opinion was easily avoidable.

[YourDailyTip]

@katieweimer Sorry to hear, but important for people to read. Thanks for sharing.

[lgitweezer]

Amen!!!! i have been sent home 3 shifts in the last week... al after driving 20 minutes to work and standing around for an hour or 2! ugh!!!

[YourDailyTip]

@lgitweezer That's the worst. Ugh. At least you know you are not alone! Thanks for your continued loyalty.

[Cokewell]

I'm at thirty days straight as of tonight, and I'm scheduled through the end of the period to thirty-two days. I'll probably work every day during the next scheduled period as well. I'm thinking about going for a company record?

I've also had the call in/send home situation happen more times than I can count. BUT, in almost all cases I've been able to work for another server instead of having had to deal with completely wasting my day.

[sngany]

I once worked somewhere & they moved locations. I had been there for 2 yrs & was in college so I had a sched that they usually worked with wonderfully, so even though I was now having to drive 20 miles one way to work, I did it anyways bc of my sched. They put the sched up sunday night for the following week (ie. the next day). It sucked, bc they did not allow schedules to be given out over the phone. It sucked working sunday day and having to drive back there sunday night for my schedule! UGHH!

[Deribiru]

my current serving job is open for 14 hours a day every day, through every holiday. No holidays for us!

[Deribiru]

my 2nd serving job made the schedule the night before. fine. always got it. but then decided to CHANGE the schedule randomly WITHOUT notification. so they would call an hour into the time we were SUPPOSED to work our changed schedule, they would apologize for not informing us, but usually wouldn't need us when we dropped everything to come in. for our scheduled times, if you didn't open, you would sit off the clock for up to 2 hours before work, or would send you home if we weren't busy

[issagandee]

I used to work for a very popular chain restaurant that I swear is in every movie ever made. We would never get our schedule until Saturday night at the earliest when the week would start on Monday... A bit frustrating.

[andystar89]

Mr Waiterman, have you heard of the new show 2 Broke Girls? Perhaps not very manly watching, but they are both waitresses and I just love the way they stick it to their customers. Try youtube searching 2 Broke Girls tipping.

[vapaisano]

Mr. Waiter Man, aren't you ever afraid that your owner, or someone who will tip off the owner..will see your vlogs?>

[SpookyJillian]

Had the pleasure of being a hood ornament for an SUV today. First time being hit by a car in a crosswalk, fun times. The reason I post this is because I am pretty sure the skills you learn serving saved me from going under the vehicle. Split second decisions and learning HOW to fall so you don't do as much damage to yourself when cruising through the wet floors of a kitchen paid off. Bruised but ready to work again on wed.

[vladkachka]

Bailey's over ice. Working on mother's day really bites. I wanted to take out my mom too.

[BambiOwnzYourMOM]

I live in Wisconsin and the only time servers get called off are snow days because you think it'd be slow... but it never is... customers risk their lives to go out to eat and me and one other server manning the dining room get SWAMPED. Snow days are always a shit show, you'd think they would learn.