Work Upgrade
I've been at my "secondary" restaurant job for a while now - but I've been a hostess-type for the longest time (which definitely gets old). I started training to be a server a long-ass time ago, but then they forgot to schedule me to finish the training, and after that I had to leave unexpectedly for a couple of weeks. And of course, upon my return they forgot to schedule it. So FINALLY I have completed the training.
Today was my first solo day as a server and I was very nervous going into it. I still don't know all of the questions I'm supposed to ask about everything. For most of the shift it was very chaotic. Another person had me switch (to a shift 2 hours longer), but I stayed an additional 2 hours after that because it was so busy and we were short a few people (which means I totally missed the programs I wanted to watch because I couldn't figure out how to program my VCR before I left =-( sniff...sniff...sniff).
The main manager stopped by in the midst of all of the chaos and told me I needed to "work cleaner." He was complaining about how many menus I had sticking out, but I wasn't the only one putting them there. Eye roll, eye roll, whatever. Anyways - it was sheer madness for so much of it! You know how you get so annoyed when the waiter or waitress forgets to bring something out? Well, me too. But now I totally get how someone can get so busy with a trillion other things that they totally forget about you and it is completely unintentional =-(. I feel bad about it, but I see how it happens now. Don't get me wrong - when it's slow they don't have an excuse =-p.
So anyways - I survived and the people working with me told me I did a pretty good job considering how busy it was. There's one girl who I didn't like before because she seemed to be annoying, but she was super helpful and I realize I misread her previously. And it's not like I didn't mess up.....unfortunately I flubbed a bit on my VERY first order, which I wanted to go smashingly well to start off on the proverbial right foot. It seems I didn't bring the soup out earlier enough so everything else wasn't hot by the time they got around to it =-(. I was really bummed about messing up my first ever order =-(. I know I'll make more mistakes, but hopefully they won't be huge ones, and I know things will get better as I get more experience. The main bummer is you can never count on getting off when you're supposed to. But I survived day 1 and will hopfeully progress like a fine wine and improve each day.
Today was my first solo day as a server and I was very nervous going into it. I still don't know all of the questions I'm supposed to ask about everything. For most of the shift it was very chaotic. Another person had me switch (to a shift 2 hours longer), but I stayed an additional 2 hours after that because it was so busy and we were short a few people (which means I totally missed the programs I wanted to watch because I couldn't figure out how to program my VCR before I left =-( sniff...sniff...sniff).
The main manager stopped by in the midst of all of the chaos and told me I needed to "work cleaner." He was complaining about how many menus I had sticking out, but I wasn't the only one putting them there. Eye roll, eye roll, whatever. Anyways - it was sheer madness for so much of it! You know how you get so annoyed when the waiter or waitress forgets to bring something out? Well, me too. But now I totally get how someone can get so busy with a trillion other things that they totally forget about you and it is completely unintentional =-(. I feel bad about it, but I see how it happens now. Don't get me wrong - when it's slow they don't have an excuse =-p.
So anyways - I survived and the people working with me told me I did a pretty good job considering how busy it was. There's one girl who I didn't like before because she seemed to be annoying, but she was super helpful and I realize I misread her previously. And it's not like I didn't mess up.....unfortunately I flubbed a bit on my VERY first order, which I wanted to go smashingly well to start off on the proverbial right foot. It seems I didn't bring the soup out earlier enough so everything else wasn't hot by the time they got around to it =-(. I was really bummed about messing up my first ever order =-(. I know I'll make more mistakes, but hopefully they won't be huge ones, and I know things will get better as I get more experience. The main bummer is you can never count on getting off when you're supposed to. But I survived day 1 and will hopfeully progress like a fine wine and improve each day.
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