-A lot of cleaning after closing!!!
We were given about 15-30 minutes to finish sweeping, scrubbing the floors, mopping, drying, buffing the floors, cleaning the restrooms, and scrubbing the pans and front of the house either by myself or with another coworker.
While I do these duties by myself my coworker counts all the money.. BUT In the morning we would get complaints that the floor was not clean enough, especially when I strenuously redid it twice. It would go by so much faster and easier if I had more employees to help.
When I worked in another location all of the BOH in the evening shift would do it. I was okay with it though, I never complained at that time, it was just unfair that I was the only one doing the floors in that impossible amount of time and hearing a complaint in the morning that the floor was this or that, (Happens almost all the time)
The most ridiculous complaint I heard from a morning shift coworker was that, "We found a piece of rice on the floor this morning, so you did not do a very good job!" I almost fell over the floor when she told me that! I know I worked hard, so that is all that matters. It's a great workout though... Knocks me out when I get home after all that crazy workout cleaning.
-Sometimes the higher management thinks you are a peasant. I would always smile at them, but they give me 'the looks' like.. (I didn't see you sanitize the FOH counter) (You are lazy and hopeless) (I hate you) I would always be scared of them, because they were very stern which made everything even more stressful during RUSH HOUR. But I would always think positive, maybe they were having a bad day?
-Customers can be a pain! Especially the DRIVE THRU!! Oh my goodness.. I would get customers who asked me for my number, asked me to marry them, crazy stuff happens in the drive thru.. But always think positive, hard work pays off!
