This Manager Has Officially “Had It”

Yeah, he's pissed

Yeah, he’s pissed

Anyone who works in a restaurant has to endure the occasional “mandatory meeting” where your manager will gather you all around to discuss the need for arriving to work on time, the necessity of clean uniforms and the importance of the two-minute check back. Most of the time, these meetings are scheduled at the ungodly time of one-hour before-your-regular-time o’clock and if it happens to be your day off on the day of the meeting, too damn bad. If your manager has a sliver of soul, he or she might show up with a box of donuts to entice you to participate, but most of the time it’s just a cold impersonal meeting that you hope will end quicker than a prostate exam. And you know that moment when they ask if anyone has something they want to discuss? That’s the moment that you hope everyone will just keep their mouths closed because nothing that is ever brought up at one of these meetings ends up being changed. It doesn’t matter though to that one server who always has to raise her hand to complain that the closing crew isn’t doing their share of the sidework and the openers are getting screwed and blah blah, blah. These meetings always have and always will suck.

One of those meeting is happening today at 1:00 and the manager that called the meeting has officially had it. According to the picture that was sent to me, all the cooks and dishwashers are about to get their asses handed to them on a platter and if the sign is any indication, the ass will be half-cooked the platter it’s being served on will be filthy:

“I’m sick and fucking tired of the condition of the kitchen cleanliness and no fucking prep being done. The dish line is fucking disgusting the bathrooms never get cleaned. You guys sit on the server line on your fucking phones and I’m done with it. If your late or not here your fired. I don’t give a shit if you have probation or if your in jail or your car won’t start. I have fucking had it with you people.”

Well, where to start, where to start? This manager is about to have a fucking conniption and his head is about to pop off his shoulders with rage. I imagine there was steam shooting from his ears as he pounded away on his keyboard to print that note. He’s so angry that he forgot the difference between “your” and you’re.” I like how he took the time to highlight the whole sign with a pink marker, because everyone knows that highlighting something means that you really really mean it. And what is up with these cooks and dishwashers who are either in jail or probation? But my main question about this sign is this: who’s going to be cooking the food and washing the dishes at the height of the lunch rush?? This meeting is at 1:00, so hopefully this restaurant is only open for dinner.

I want to send out good positive thoughts to all those cooks and dishwashers who are at that meeting today. Be prepared for the wrath of your manger and you’d better get cracking on cleaning that dump up. Don’t worry about it too much though. We all know that these meetings are just a band-aid for the real problem. Sure, the bathrooms will get cleaned today and the dish line will be a smidgen less disgusting, but in about a week things will go right back to the way they were and you can all go back to the server line and sit on your phones again.

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