I just recently started working at a sub shop part time to make ends meet, as Dh just got laid off for the winter. Its a family owned sub shop and its really busy in there so the employees eat when they can in the back whenever they get a free moment. the boss and the managers are really good to the employees but I am quite sure if we ate in front of the customers the owner would have a cow and a half. we are not allowed to chew gum either and we get in trouble if we do not greet the customer within the first 15 seconds of that customer entering through the door. the day shifts are all adults, one of them is always on her cell texting, she gets told all the time to put it away and just yesterday the owner told her to go home since she cannot seem to put her cell down it must mean it is more important than being at work doing her job and earning her wages.
during the evening its all students between the ages of 15 and 18 and out of the 7 employed. 5 are so mature for their ages, nice and well put together teenagers who have very good work ethics. 2 of them however stand around doing nothing, eating by the cash register, chewing gum, forgetting to wash their hands and/or talking on the phone constantly. these 2 girls were working yesterday and it was funny to see a 17 yr old girl (another employee) tell them to stop standing around, put the phone down, throw the gum away, wash your hands and now you are on dish duty. I was the oldest there. and I found this amusing.
I stayed late yesterday and had to drive home in a blizzard, if I had left when I was supposed to I would have missed all that.
you are definitely not a relic, lol, some people just really lack management skills, or simply just don't care enough.
At my old job, I had an employee call in for her 7 am shift at 630 am and tell me she had been up all night and couldn't come in because she ACCIDENTALLY got SMASHED while out with her friends. I called the manager and told her the exact same thing the employee told me. The manager ended having to come in to work her shift. That same employee used that exact excuse several more times and nothing ever happened to her. the last winter I was employed there, my DD came down with a double lung infection and was hospitalized, I called in and told them I couldn't go in because my daughter was in the hospital, I gave them 12 hours of notice to replace me. I spoke with the manager. In any event when I returned to work I was written up for not coming in for my scheduled shift. I was dumbfounded. I told the manager, one day you will have children, and I hope what you just did to me happens to you. I quit that job a couple months later , when that other employee came in to work drunk and stoned, and then said well I cannot stay cause I do not feel good and left. the manager refused to send anyone to replace her and demanded I stay a double shift. I had already worked 14 hours, so I grabbed all my stuff, called the operations managers on duty in the plant and told him, that according to law and company policy I could no longer be on site because I had worked my max hours. I left. BTW I worked in a mine, so they have very strict rules about the max hours worked. the manager got in a lot of trouble over this. and more so when I told the company was I would not return to work.
