Well, I never thought I would post anything on Reddit, let alone 'antiwork' as I am the opposite of this! But here goes…..
I've been working at a restaurant in France for over 6 years, extremely busy summers (500 covers a day) and during the winter I just help out when needed. The restaurant is fully booked almost everyday in the colder months, around 60 people due to the seating arrangement indoors (too cold outside) and it is set in a large, old family home which the owner of the home, is also the Boss of the restaurant. Amazing Boss, extremely generous for the staff, great staff food after service, great bottles of wine (one of the best wine cellars in all of France)…..almost too nice in that he doesn't want any stress and upset anyone.
I work lunch and dinner services. Roughly about 13hrs a day. 6 days a week. The other staff turn up and do the bare minimum. Don't get me wrong, when in the service they run around like crazy but now we just got staff that are literally drunk in service, staff won't even put deliveries away, won't break boxes down for the bins, won't clean work areas correctly…the list goes on. I'm in disbelief how much money, food, plates, glasses etc get wasted with no repercussions! Last week, a guy who works with me wasted about €700 of fois gras by leaving it in the vapour oven OVERNIGHT! Nothing was said by anyone. This is just one thing that has happened recently, I could probably give you ten other examples without problems.
Am I going crazy that I care so much and nobody else does? I don't even own the place! This restaurant is not in the city so coming to find staff can be complicated but why can't we just take less reservations, get rid of the weak terrible staff and start again with some standards?
Not sure if this is the right group as I'm far from Antiwork but everyone else seems to be?
EDIT – My boss is hands on and works almost everyday of the summer season, taking all the orders, sommelier and he's 63 years old.