/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19372173
>Giving a year notice in any industry is acceptable
if you told a restaurant owner you need a week off 7 months from now, they will laugh at you. A one month notice would be much more appropriate, with a reminder before the schedule is made. It can take over 2 hours to make a schedule because almost ever server is a woman.
>this server needs Tuesday off because her kid needs to go to the dentist, but you can't have this server cover their shift that day because her babysitter works, but you can give it to this other server who normally doesn't work that day, but she'll have too many hours which will make the other servers uppity and her tired, so I'll take away a day from her later in the week and give it to this server since this one works her other job that day, oh wait, she's taking her fucking kid to the zoo that day for their birthday. Well I guess I'll give it it this one and hopefully her car is fixed by then, if not I'll have this person go get pick them up after they...
>server storms in
>THIS LADY NEEDS TO SEE A MANAGER
>jesus fucking christ, what is it now?
>walk downstairs, go to the bar, see old lady
>I JUST WANTED TO TELL YOU THAT THE SALMON WAS REALLY REALLY GOOD! BEST I'VE EVER HAD IN MY LONG LONG LIFE!
>yes, it's fucking delicious. I'll give the chef your compliment
>go to kitchen
>server immediately runs up on you
>HEY! Can you get ice from the basement while I bring this food out? Anon would do it, but she just took her first smoke break in 3 hours
>go get ice
>throw in drink dispenser
>go back to kitchen
>different server starts yelling
>I NEED BROCCOLI BUT IT'S NOT HERE
>yell for broccoli
>every cook says it already went out
>need a broccoli on the fly!
>broccoli heard
>hey, anon, old lady said the salmon was really really good
>really really good salmon heard
>go to dining room
>find table with broccoli
>confront server
>oh, I must've forgot to ring it in
>cool, well you took anon's order
>god damn it.
>only 10 minutes until close!