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Varine:
@jonas Be out, I guess. I found it tho. I hate it when I'm out of stuff, like it's just embarrassing. Like it's one thing to be out of scallions and so you're garnish is different, but when the servers have to go tell people they can't have the thing they want, especially for multiple days, it looks bad on me and the company. Not like I never fuck up, but one of the few things I take a lot of pride in in my life is my ability to rectify mistakes. I like to be the person that can find and accomplish resolutions, and like when the company I buy from doesn't have something it isn't anyone's fault, but there IS a resolution and I always feel really good when I get to be a part of finding it. -
Varine:
@SunBlitzed That was the backup plan, I live in a pretty small town so my choice on grocers is limited. Like we don't have a real butcher here, just like three grocery stores and a Walmart. I'm reasonably confident I could have gotten them to sell me one of theirs that they slice in the deli though if it came down to it.
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Varine:
I have a remarkably small kitchen though, so cooking them off ourselves is not totally practical right now, especially because it's only for lunch, and even though I get those shifts this year I realize that the only reason are open for lunch is to kind of offset the cost of having a full staff on to prep for dinner. Last year I only did dinner shifts or doubles, and we had a BIG difference in hours. To the point that even though the chef was working literally every day for a month, he still had less hours than me just because of how demanding dinner service is. Like tonight was slow, but I didn't leave until like midnight because problems have to get resolved at the moment. I can't just leave shit and make someone else's problem unless it's something that I cannot get done
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Varine:
So to cook it off ourselves for one sandwhich that is available for that one shift becomes wildly impractical on our scale. I don't love that I have to buy premade shit, but I also have to balance labor and pragmatism with what I want, and the reality is I need to be the restaurant that APPEARS to be the best for three months, and it's easier to do that when a guest doesn't have any problems there. Being out of something opens up to them having a problem, and I need to make enough money I can keep my year round staff on year round. Because we lose money for seven other months
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Varine:
Restaurants are not a thing that you just want to open in most places, this shit sucks 90% of the time. I lucked out with my job and I still fucking hate it most of the time
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Varine:
I am 100% going to fire like three people the second I have an excuse though, that'll make it like 20% nice. I wanted to a long time ago, but for some reason my boss likes them. I hired like two people this year though and it's 'weird' how the people I hired are really good, almost like we ask for references so we can check them.
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Varine:
Like I know the rules on those, you can't just talk a bunch of shit because you didn't like someone, but when the reference you picked goes "I mean yeah they did work here" and that's all they have to say... probably not going have a great time. Turns out calling those will save us months of time learning that ourselves
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Varine:
Fucking cooler was down and I had to figure that out before I left, I get to wash towels at my house because we somehow ran out again (that is kind of my fault but I still don't like it), Sysco can't deliver to us tomorrow because their routes are fucked so I have to go drive 20 miles tomorrow at... some point, idk when, to pick up the shit they didn't have today when they did dispatch (which actually will be faster, I've had their Tuesday driver and he's a fucking dipshit, I don't want him around me ever again), and I have like three people that are sick. idk what they have but it will be a big big problem if it spreads to anyone else, because everyone that has been sick has been to a doctor and came back with a hard CANNOT WORK note.
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Varine:
Like we've have four or five people get sick the last two weeks. I have never seen that happen with literally everyone one of them going to a doctor and giving me a note, I don't even ask for it usually. So whatever it is sucks
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Varine:
Seems a weird time for it, but idk, I'm not a pathologist. If I had the staff I would make them take an extra day off+1
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Varine:
More sick people. And one guy with a newborn that had a legitimate "Dude I need to go back home right now". It was a really good day though, I think everyone there today can feel like they got a lot accomplished and I'm really happy about it
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Varine:
When I was doing my DUI counseling I learned about a thing that I think was the "kodak method"
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Varine:
So at the end of the day, you're supposed to reflect on three things: How did I hurt someone?
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Varine:
So like today, I hurt someone by making a bad joke to a new server that has only ever seen me when I'm like, managing a busy service and thought I was being deadly serious when I said "next time don't sell so much shit" when he somehow sold 10 desserts on a 12 top and I had to make them.
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Varine:
That was in hindsight hilarious but it was a big problem, and I doubt that server feels the same way about it. I should not have done that. They were really upset.
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Varine:
I helped I think several people, but I helped everyone by just being the best. You're welcome
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Varine:
But in reality I did help big boss get to have an easy day by taking charge of the day shift so she could have a family day or something. Both her kids are in college and are doing a what I understand to be very fucking cool, and both of them are back home now for a bit.
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Varine:
And then I cheat on this one because it's the same thing, but there is never a day that goes by without someone that helps me. So I'm glad to live in a world where I can be helpful, but more importantly I can get help.
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