Things you wish you could say

[Kay-T-Hammer]

Hmm. Did they have a dishwashing sink and another sink?

That might make a big difference, if you are filling the only sink with dishes (in most houses) or if you are filling the dedicated dishwashing sink but leaving another sink free for the other tasks.

At ours there are 3 huge basins for dish. The kitchen staff lets us know if they need a basin so we can thoroughly clean/sanitize it. But otherwise, dishes go in the sink. Or, they are supposed to, anyway. I only have an itty bitty counter that is supposed to keep dish tools; otherwise, they load the dirty dishes onto prep station counters, and that is no bueno. At home, my counters are for prep, too. Dirty dishes go in that metal-lined hole in the countertop, nowhere else. If they fail that at our house, they need to be the ones to battle the nefarious armies of little black ants that invade. At work... I am going to leave them to the full-time dishwasher.

 

[Kay-T-Hammer]

Probably should make a small sign. Straight up confrontation offends so many.
Yes I learned today asking someone to do their job is confrontational it appears.

This. Especially when the new ones are always holding knives. I would rather not be stabbed to death by Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum.

I was scolded a few weeks ago by an owner because he pulled out the tray I had just washed, looked at the only dish that was in there and asked "Is this what you call clean!?"

I told him no. But it lives on the floor anyway. It just needed the dust and grime off of it. It would become no cleaner.

Smart ass tried to clean it, it would not get any cleaner, and he chucked it where it belongs on the floor. Quitter. (I am one of those people that do not like being told how to do my job. ) Being told to actually do my job is a non-issue, though. The new kids most definitely do their jobs, they just do some things very stupidly (like leaving the walk-in wide open like it is their own personal a/c unit).

Sorry if I rambled.

 

[Kay-T-Hammer]

Do this, but use a soup ladle and say Close. The. Door.

I mean, I could use the bread knife. It looks very intimidating, but it is not meant for meat.

 

[Sally PB]

At my job, everyone had a week of "kitchen duty," which included running the dishwasher, cleaning the microwaves, wiping the tables, counters, and vacuuming the floor. Everyone was responsible to put their dirty dishes in the dishwasher.

One woman would turn on the hot water and run it non stop while she cleaned. Rinse the cleaning cloth, let it run. Rinse off the microwave turn table, let it run. It drove me nuts.

 

[Kay-T-Hammer]

At my job, everyone had a week of "kitchen duty," which included running the dishwasher, cleaning the microwaves, wiping the tables, counters, and vacuuming the floor. Everyone was responsible to put their dirty dishes in the dishwasher.

One woman would turn on the hot water and run it non stop while she cleaned. Rinse the cleaning cloth, let it run. Rinse off the microwave turn table, let it run. It drove me nuts.

Everyone, absolutely everyone, at the restaurant does that. Some have valid reasons, others not so much. But it bugs me enough to turn the water off and start snarling at people. I do not like wasting anything.

 

[Sally PB]

I turned it off, thinking she'd forgotten she'd left it on. Nope. She came back over to the sink, turned it on, rinsed the cloth, and walked away. Water running, steam rising... not your bill, so you don't care, huh?

 

[Kay-T-Hammer]

I turned it off, thinking she'd forgotten she'd left it on. Nope. She came back over to the sink, turned it on, rinsed the cloth, and walked away. Water running, steam rising... not your bill, so you don't care, huh?

That is one of the many reasons why it bothers me so much. I work right alongside the owners. I see how hard they work and how much they care, and I refuse to knowingly add any problems to their list, including a stupidly high anything bill (turn off the bathroom lights, too, damnit!).

 

[Nabiki]

At my job, everyone had a week of "kitchen duty," which included running the dishwasher, cleaning the microwaves, wiping the tables, counters, and vacuuming the floor. Everyone was responsible to put their dirty dishes in the dishwasher.

One woman would turn on the hot water and run it non stop while she cleaned. Rinse the cleaning cloth, let it run. Rinse off the microwave turn table, let it run. It drove me nuts.

Everyone, absolutely everyone, at the restaurant does that. Some have valid reasons, others not so much. But it bugs me enough to turn the water off and start snarling at people. I do not like wasting anything.

I've lived too long in serious to critical drought conditions to even think of wasting water. That's part of why I got so mad and the kid who let the toilet flow all night when he KNEW it was running and all he had to do was jiggle the @#$@#$ handle to get it to stop. That twit nearly doubled my water bill that month.

 

[Brooks_]

Plenty of water here, but I know we're pumping faster than it flows into the aquifer. I conserve when I can.

 

[Sally PB]

We had a running toilet where I worked too. Damn, it made me mad to walk in there and hear it running!

It was a small business. Every bit wasted mattered!

The mounting department would tell customer service, don't promise a rush without adding on a rush fee. We will waste more material rewebbing the mounting press than we will use for the job. We will give away the job, throw feet of material into the trash, pay the labor, and you don't seem to care.

Finally they got the owner involved. He just about blew a gasket when he heard what was going on.