so i'm in the middle of hunting for jobs. again. it's unfortunate that there's little to no jobs here in this area, and the few that i do find are basically incompetent to the point where it takes them six+ weeks to even call me about an interview. seriously.
currently i work at a franchise steakhouse. and, frankly, some days there are great. i love the people i work with (to a point - there's a few unmentionables i'd rather never see again for the rest of my life). rude guests don't bother me. i've never been yelled at or even just slightly chewed out. i've only been written up once (for missing a meeting that was barely publicized and had the wrong date on the online page), and i've never been late. i've also been working there since before opening day. so that's...eight months now? you'd think a promotion from hostess (or service assistant, as they like to put it) to server would be in order. but apparently not.
when they hired me, they insisted that it would only be a short matter of time before i would start training as a server, as i had initially applied as one, but because i had "no experience" (meaning: i had four months of experience, but this girl over here, who had NO experience in a restaurant whatsoever is immediately hired as a server. looking back on this, that should have been my initial warning sign), i would have to wait and start working as an sa first. fine. whatever. i can do that. since the restaurant opened in early september, we have lost about twelve servers and half of our sa's. two sa's were promoted to servers because they threatened to quit if they weren't. the managers have since regretted their actions, as one has already received three write-ups and complains about wanting to leave if she goes ten minutes without having a table / won't pre-bus / doesn't generally do her work at all, and the other is just...herself.
currently, their excuse for not promoting me (as we DO have openings, as t. and w. transferred, and more than a handful are thinking of transferring or just quitting) is that we don't have enough sa's. my head manager told me initially that it was extremely easy to hire sa's, as you don't have to have much experience, and they're much easier to train. currently, there's about ten applications sitting in the host stand. and that's from this past week alone. i can guarantee you there's about 300+ more sitting in the manager's office. and yet they can't pick out one or two out of that humongous pile that are capable of saying hello and seating guests in a booth? really? but yet clearly they can find servers (as they've hired three more already, and likely will hire more.)
i have begged. i have worked my ass off. i have picked up shift after shift, come in early to do my sidework and stayed late. i have dressed pristinely and showed up with the biggest smile on my face that you can imagine. i have politely asked every month / when another server packs up and leaves to simply start training. they don't even have to put me on the schedule as a server yet, if they don't want to. i'm happy simply training and picking up the occasional shift someone wants to give me. that's fine. it would even be more convenient for them to have me trained, in case they need someone in an emergency. clearly, this is just not possible. for reasons unknown.
so i'm looking elsewhere. got a card in the mail four weeks ago that said my resume at some place or another had been accepted and they would call in the next two weeks to schedule an interview. this was four weeks ago. i'd waited six weeks before that to even get the card.
this town sucks.
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