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SweetWillyRollbar posted:It's Japan so no tips at all. Praise e - ayy, the gang tags went through. Mercedes Colomar fucked around with this message at 09:05 on Dec 13, 2019 |
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Next week I have to do my department luncheon. The company gives my boss the credit card to take us out and everything. Last year she absolutely balked at giving a 20% tip for lunch and wrote in something low for our party of 9. I wanted to crawl under the table and die so I'd never risk being recognized again. It's a loving trip going out with people that have never been in food service or even retail for that matter.
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Dec 13, 2019 09:29
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In some USA states autograt isn't legal, and in others it must be predisclosed on the menu
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Dec 13, 2019 13:14
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If you're using a company card, it's worth asking if they can add an autograt even if the restaurant doesn't normally do it. That way it's on the receipt.
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Dec 13, 2019 18:05
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I'm a day behind but  trans rights and I hope you have good support, Manuel (this thread ain't bad either)steak bitch: we sell tbones, ribeyes and sirloins and 75% of them are well done and get drenched in A1, I hate truckers occasionally they throw the server a $5 for me if they like my hockey puck of a steak though so I guess it ain't all bad
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Dec 13, 2019 18:13
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My favorite steak order was a regular who always wanted the 6oz tenderloin cut in half and scorched to ash.
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Dec 13, 2019 21:39
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Tezcatlipoca posted:My favorite steak order was a regular who always wanted the 6oz tenderloin cut in half and scorched to ash. Honestly? I'm okay with this, because at that point they're all in on well done and understand that it's gonna be a while. It's like inverse blue (orange?)
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Dec 14, 2019 01:07
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Been at a new job for a little while , but had our first real busy night tonight. Feels good. I miss this.
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Dec 14, 2019 07:08
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The monkeys paw curls. You will now be slammed six ways to Sunday each and every shift for the rest of the year.
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Dec 14, 2019 07:19
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Malachite_Dragon posted:The monkeys paw curls. You will now be slammed six ways to Sunday each and every shift for the rest of the year. You mean he'll be stuck in food service hell for the next decades no matter how hard he tries to claw out?
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Dec 14, 2019 10:16
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I'm very happy to be where I am and after 10 years in the industry I'm very happy to be running an outlet for a group that owns 9 hotels and is opening 2 more in the next 2 years and expecting my boss to build teams to send out to open them I also absolutely enjoy banging through a busy service.
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Dec 14, 2019 13:45
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With new menu rollout, short staffing, and a sous chef calling out today forcing me to work open to close (for the third time in a month), by the end of today I'll have spent 40 of the last 72 hours at work. Give me strength. Edit: Third time in a month, each from a different sous. Sandwich Anarchist fucked around with this message at 18:05 on Dec 14, 2019 |
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Dec 14, 2019 17:54
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as of today i've been out of the industry for a year. i'm the senior cnc operator at my new job now, i have a health plan, and i'm using paid time off this upcoming week to rewatch star wars before catching episode 9 opening night at the air and space museum. if restaurants make you happy then keep at 'em but there are alternatives; i had no idea my new job was a possibility until a friend suggested the career switch.
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Dec 14, 2019 18:43
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Trebuchet King posted:as of today i've been out of the industry for a year. i'm the senior cnc operator at my new job now, i have a health plan, and i'm using paid time off this upcoming week to rewatch star wars before catching episode 9 opening night at the air and space museum. if restaurants make you happy then keep at 'em but there are alternatives; i had no idea my new job was a possibility until a friend suggested the career switch. Link to relevant space to go in a similar direction if you don't mind. I've been visiting a local makerspace and am pretty interested in the metalworking side of the building.
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Dec 14, 2019 19:14
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i'm not really sure about any links; my friend works in design at a sign shop and asked me "you did wood shop and some engineering stuff before you dropped out, right? you should apply for the production department here" and I did. i had maybe a semester's worth of CAD experience under my belt but they were willing to train me up past that. I guess I'd say in lieu of a link, look for sign shops?
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Lurker who's not in the industry at all, but I'll pop in here to answer this:Sextro posted:Link to relevant space to go in a similar direction if you don't mind. I've been visiting a local makerspace and am pretty interested in the metalworking side of the building. Pop over to the Metalworking thread. Any type you're interested in, somebody will know about, and people can answer more questions. My area's machining, so my suggestions will be biased that direction. Youtube's probably the best place to learn the basics beyond whatever basic classes your makerspace has. ThisOldTony's probably the best intro: excellent production quality and good technical communication. CNCCookbook's also a decent intro source. For CAD/CAM, Fusion360 is your best option (free for a year for non-commercial use) and there's tons of tutorials. Modern Machine Shop is also something to follow: generally not very technically deep, but it'll give you an idea of the state of the industry and the current buzzwords. You can also look around at local technical schools or colleges: a fair number are trying to do retraining since the manufacturing industry's extremely short on workers. I know Massachussets has the MassMEP program, I used to teach for that and it was very good, >95% placement rate if I recall correctly. If that's not an option, then honestly? Once you've got the basics go and start talking to some local shops (I'd suggest the smaller ones rather than big mass-production places, more opportunities for growth. Look for somewhere clean: if it's clean that's a good sign.) Most of them will probably be hiring, and if you can show you're enthusiastic they'll be interested. If you've got some basic knowledge (can read simple drawings and tolerances, know how to calculate feeds and speeds, can tighten a vise, can talk about the differences between endmills/reamers/drillbits, etc) they'll probably be all over you. Probably start as a basic operator (loading parts into machines and hitting the green start button) but there's a lot of room for growth. It's hard to over-state just how short on workers the industry is right now. A few years back, it was harder: more shops were still stuck in the mud about wanting to hire experienced workers who can hit the ground running. Now, they've started realizing that's not going to happen and they're going to have to train new employees. A lot of them are starting up their own internal training classes or partnering with local schools, and starting wages are going up. ThisOldTony's Tips, Tricks, and Techniques playlist CNCCookbook's training courses Modern Machine Shop
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I don't venture into GBS often, but I'm stuck in bed (or the bathroom) with a stomach bug and already perused all my bookmarked threads. Anyone in a similar situation, or bored during a work slump, should check this out, because holy moly. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3906525&pagenumber=1&perpage=40 If it's not a joke, the OP is seriously clueless about the industry. JacquelineDempsey fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Dec 14, 2019 |
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JacquelineDempsey posted:I don't venture into GBS often, but I'm stuck in bed (or the bathroom) with a stomach bug and already perused all my bookmarked threads. This one https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3906525&pagenumber=1&perpage=40 ?
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Dec 14, 2019 22:47
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JacquelineDempsey posted:I don't venture into GBS often, but I'm stuck in bed (or the bathroom) with a stomach bug and already perused all my bookmarked threads. Links not working, at least on awful app, it may have been gassed or something. Edit: It looks like you just linked to the main GBS page Air Skwirl fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Dec 14, 2019 |
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Dec 14, 2019 22:49
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Skwirl posted:Links not working, at least on awful app, it may have been gassed or something.
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Whoops, yeah, fixed! Thanks! (sorry my brain can only function so much on Gatorade and chicken broth)
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Dec 14, 2019 22:57
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:forcing me to work open to close (for the third time in a month), I do this 3-4 times a week, is that not normal in the US? It seems to be here. Edit: Open to close here is 10 am (set up, start service at 12) - 10-11.30PM depending on the day. Although I've done 8AM - Midnight before at a previous job. Raikiri fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Dec 15, 2019 |
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Dec 15, 2019 00:12
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Raikiri posted:I do this 3-4 times a week, is that not normal in the US? It seems to be here. It depends on how many hours the restaurant is open, if it's dinner only or something that's pretty standard if you also do lunch it means you're understaffed.
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Dec 15, 2019 00:19
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The local liquor store is carrying a gin themed after Ada Lovelace, and I almost wish I liked gin this is relevant because my prep cook is a drunk but he's still phenomenal and idgaf
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Dec 15, 2019 00:52
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Skwirl posted:It depends on how many hours the restaurant is open, if it's dinner only or something that's pretty standard if you also do lunch it means you're understaffed. We've lost a bunch of staff the past month to all kinds of bullshit unrelated to work, and have been having a bad time getting new blood. Open here is 4 am, with no breaks in service until close at around 10:30pm. Closing means you leave at around midnight. So for me, it's 6 am to close.
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:
Ok, that's super not cool. 20h straight must be illegal, surely?
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Raikiri posted:Ok, that's super not cool. 20h straight must be illegal, surely? Salary!
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Dec 15, 2019 01:09
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:Salary! Even so, are there no minimum breaks between shifts for example? Here you have to have at least 11 hours between finishing a shift and beginning another, although I don't think there's technically any limit on the length of a shift.
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Dec 15, 2019 01:14
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Raikiri posted:Even so, are there no minimum breaks between shifts for example? In the US it's only 8 hours between shifts, and shifts can be however long, but if you stay over 12 they have to give you a second unpaid 30 minute break (but again, salary)
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Mithross posted:In the US it's only 8 hours between shifts, and shifts can be however long, but if you stay over 12 they have to give you a second unpaid 30 minute break (but again, salary) I think my state passed a law a couple years ago saying that if a salary is below some minimum amount, then if that employee works greater than 40+x hours then they are entitled to overtime pay. All of our lower management got raises to that minimum amount.
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That is one nice thing about the service industry - if things go south, if you're not making what you need to make, you can absolutely walk away and find a job elsewhere, quickly*. There's a software company here in Houston that has written on their careers page "Work-life balance is an overhyped perk." This same company offers breakfast tacos every Monday morning (get them in early) and a company happy hour every Friday (keep them late). Toxic culture and trying to extract maximum effort for minimum pay is not unique to any given industry. *this is assuming you're in a reasonably well populated area. If you're in a town of 3k people, it will be harder
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Shooting Blanks posted:That is one nice thing about the service industry - if things go south, if you're not making what you need to make, you can absolutely walk away and find a job elsewhere, quickly*. There's a software company here in Houston that has written on their careers page "Work-life balance is an overhyped perk." This same company offers breakfast tacos every Monday morning (get them in early) and a company happy hour every Friday (keep them late). Agreed, and it's like the only real benefit of having 10+ years of industry experience on your resume. I tend to get bored of places every couple years and go looking for something different, and I usually have something lined up within a couple of days.
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Mithross posted:In the US it's only 8 hours between shifts, and shifts can be however long, but if you stay over 12 they have to give you a second unpaid 30 minute break (but again, salary) 8 hours is a state law at best. There's no federal law governing number of hours in a day nor number of hours of time between shifts that are required to be provided. Breaks and lunches aren't federally mandated either. The only real governance is the minimum wage ($7.25 federally), child labor laws, and that hours past 40 need to be paid as OT unless you're salaried exempt. https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/workhours/breaks https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/flsa It is entirely legal in the US to schedule someone two 20 hour days back to back with four hours between and pay them $290(minus taxes) for it. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 08:31 on Dec 15, 2019 |
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Yep. That being said, if you make people work straight through for 10+ hours without at least giving them the opportunity to eat, they're probably gonna find somewhere else to work pretty quickly so employers generally do give breaks of some variety.
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Dec 15, 2019 12:28
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Coasterphreak posted:Yep. That being said, if you make people work straight through for 10+ hours without at least giving them the opportunity to eat, they're probably gonna find somewhere else to work pretty quickly so employers generally do give breaks of some variety. Yeah, this isn't a regular thing and it's definitely not something that I allow to happen to the hourly employees here. Just circumstances and chance lead to this happening a couple of times for me this month and it sucks
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Whats stopping you from saying no?
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TheParadigm posted:Whats stopping you from saying no? I'm the executive chef lol
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Dec 15, 2019 16:47
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Stolen from the CSPAM Pics Thread (and in my sleepless haste, accidentally reposted in the very same thread instead of here like I meant, lol)
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Mister Speaker posted:Stolen from the CSPAM Pics Thread (and in my sleepless haste, accidentally reposted in the very same thread instead of here like I meant, lol) Yes. I'm sure they usually do.
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Shooting Blanks posted:That is one nice thing about the service industry - if things go south, if you're not making what you need to make, you can absolutely walk away and find a job elsewhere, quickly*. There's a software company here in Houston that has written on their careers page "Work-life balance is an overhyped perk." This same company offers breakfast tacos every Monday morning (get them in early) and a company happy hour every Friday (keep them late). Look I get it's exploitative and lovely but if my company is paying for my liquor then heck yeah I'll work there
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