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Eat Fresh
So, when I was 18, I worked for a sandwich shop down the street from
me. It was right next door to my favorite coffee shop, so at least I
could enjoy that much of it. I had worked at another popular deli
before, and so I already knew a thing or two.
My first day there, I noticed a few health violations. They had open
drippy meats stored over open cheese, and their condiments on the line
were not stored in the line, but on the countertop where they got warm
during the day. I pointed this out to the employees there, and it was
fixed. Over the next few months, I began to find myself working 7 days
a week. Literally 7 days. Whats worse, I would come in for the lunch
rush, have an hour or two off, then stay to close. So, basically, I
stayed pretty much open to close.
I was the only person there after 4, and I would generally make a
decent amount of tips for the dinner rush. Of course I would never see
all of those tips since they were split “equally.” How is it equal if
I am there 7 days a week, and yet a chunk of my tips goes to someone
who only works a few hours a week? Not fair.
I kept asking for time off, and for help on the evening shift, but
none came. The final straw, was after a few months of doing this, I
had to come in late, and couldnt help with a large lunch order because
I had a dentist appointment. He threw such a fit, I ended up skipping
my appointment and going in.
He had the nerve to start giving me the 3rd degree, asking why I was
in my uniform if I was going to the dentist. (I was going to go there
right after my appointment… hello?) I was too angry to keep dealing
with that guy. He was the owner, but didn’t even know how to make the
sandwiches!
A customer actually liked my customer service enough, that she offered
me a job working at a major commercial airplane company with better
hours, benefits and better pay. I walked out on that deli that day,
and never bothered looking back.
The deli isn’t there anymore. I guess he ended up having too many
violations to keep the doors open. Oh well, not my problem anymore.
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This is why I never eat at places like delis. I either go to a restaurant whose level of quality I trust, or make my own food.
OP, sounds like you were a hard worker, which is a good thing! And these problems annoyed you (they’d annoy me, too) but instead of bitching, you just kept working hard, which says a lot about your work ethic. AND you made sure the health violations were fixed. Another point for you. We need more people like you in the workplace – but I also stand behind people who, when worked this hard, take it to a higher power to make sure the business isn’t understaffed and overworking the employees. An overworked employee is less productive, and that hurts the bottom line far more than just hiring someone extra.
Lots of business owners and bosses, though, have no idea how to do whatever the business does; they hire the employees to do that. I don’t LIKE that format, but it’s very common. I think it says bad things about a company owner when he has no idea how the company’s jobs are done. A certain company, of whose manufacturing and design facilities I took a tour (WET Design is the name, they build fountains) has every employee hired get a bit of time learning how nearly every manufacturing and building job in the company is done and getting to know the people involved. This includes desk workers, from secretaries up to executives. An office employee gave me the tour, and she knew every employee by name AND could explain what each process was, from design to machining to woodworking and model-making. THAT is how a company should run: bosses and managers should understand the tasks, know how long it takes to do them properly, etc.
This story is as boring as Zephyr.
sonds like your boss stole the deli out of “delicious”.
Just because there’s no whiny OP, crazy-ass nutjob boss or other stuff to bitch about?
What do people here want? People say the story sucks because it sounds fake, it sucks because the OP made a grammatical or spelling error, it sucks because there’s too little detail, it sucks because there’s too much detail, it sucks because it’s boring… What DO you want in stories, anyway?
If this story is true, kudos to the OP. You sound like a hard worker whose efforts paid off and the boss is clearly a fuckball.
The story sucked because, well, it sucked. The OP suddenly refers to the boss as “he” in the fourth paragraph without ever identifying him prior. What a fucking idiot. I thought it was the sandwich that threw a fucking fit.
You worked 7 says a week, and though you asked for more help and did not get more help, you continued working 7 hours a week? You even canceled a dentist appointment to work because the boss pestered you? You should not have had to do either of those. You should have gotten time off for a medical appointment, and you should have been aided by other employees, or they should have hired more. The fact that you did this work anyway says a great deal about you as an upstanding, hard-working type. Your story was also very readable, sadly not a common occurrence on this website.
He didn’t really mention anything the boss did directly before the fourth paragraph anyway, so why does that matter? There were other problems with the job besides the boss, and OP talked about those first.
Perhaps you’re just irritable today. I’m off to go do important stuff.
Hey, Walt, if you read this: Was this employee finally hard-working enough to impress you? Seven days a week, non-stop, asked for extra help but when they didn’t get it, didn’t bitch about that but just kept working, missed appointments to make all-important shifts?
I reckon there was some sort of a misunderstanding. The boss likely knew how to make a sandwich, but was married and thus did not have occasion to do so. A good wife would keep him well-supplied in sandwiches. Story teller, you will go far in life if you are willing to make the sort of sacrifices described in your story. Working seven days a week is to be commended. Complaining about it on this world wide website, however, is not. Man up and grow a pear, as the kids these days say.
I want a sandwich. Skunk, go to a deli and bring me back a reuben.
glad the background in sammich making translated into a good job for a major commercial airplane company.
Well done, OP.
The spelling you want is P-A-
Err,tThe spelling you want is P-A-I-R, Walt. “Grow a pair (of testicles)”
My goodness, Zephyr Skunk, that would be highly inappropriate! Grow a pear, it takes a lot of manly physical labor and hard work to induce a tree to bear fruit. I am laughing! Why would you tell someone to grow extra anatomical features? That is nonsensical, in addition to being inappropriate. Do you also tell folks to grow additional arms and legs? I am laughing!
Walt, I’m astounded that you would suggest people that people should work 7 days per week. Even on Sunday? The Lord’s day? Shocking!
Op, it seems you got fairly taken advantage of at that job – working 7 days a week, split shift, shared tips, working alone, etc.
I’m going to put that down to your age at the time (18), your lack of education (first “real job” right out of high school, I’d bet), and I’m going to tack on low self esteem just for good measure (cause why else would you take your boss hassling you over a single dentist appointment after you’ve clearly shown so much commitment to a deli?).
I hope your new job is much better, you’re older and wiser and see your own self worth.
And Walt – you’re so so full of crap your eyes much be brown – it does not take hard work for a person to grow “a pear” (I have a pear tree in my backyard and it does just fine on it’s own)and if you were the fanatical Christian you claim to be, you’d take issue with anyone working 7 days a week because that means no rest on the sabbath. Geez, it’s pretty bad when the trolls can’t keep their own persona’s from slipping.
I bet Zephyr was enthralled by this story as soon as he read “drippy meats.”
GO 49ERS!!!!!!!!!!!
HARBOWL 4 LYF!
That was just to bug you, Barb. I want Ravens to win since the Niners knocked out the Packers and ruined my month.
EFF YOU ZEPHYR!!!!!
peace
Goodness, you have mistaken my words! Work for the Lord on Sunday! Praise his name! Sacrifice your fruit! Remember, too, that laboring on Sunday is permitted if your ox is in the mire. To state it another way, if you are struggling to grow a pear, you may put in some time on a Sunday to induce your tree to bear fruit as your family does need to eat. A non-bearing fruit tree, I reckon, falls under the category of an ox in the mire.
Oh, it didn’t bug me DDF. And, Green Bay is my 3rd favorite team, after the Ravens (obviously) and the Skins.
I have often wondered how people justify the concept of not working on Sunday as a religious thing, after all, the minister is working on Sunday. If you truly believe that people should not work on Sunday, shouldn’t we cancel church services?