I had my first shift today at a new restaurant (6 FOH staff including me) after I had quit my last position at another place because they started scheduling me in for once a week due to the off season and because my coworker who was there longer had priority. I was ecstatic but I realized I was just going to be oblivious to what is normal and not normal because I am new and everyone there has been there for a while and know the ins and outs. My coworkers were constantly laughing behind my back whenever they thought I did something wrong.
Closing duties are beyond typical for every job, let alone a resturant job. My manager prints out a list, a list he had curated and printed during my shift of the DAILY closing duties we had to do. All is fine. I am cleaning and sanitizing the stainless steel countertops (which consists of the delivery packing areas) as per the list. My manager stops me, and says it is not just the countertops. It's suddenly ALSO the shelves that I for one, can't reach, to which he insists I use a chair for. Not a stool, a chair. He removes all the decor that sat upon these shelves and I'm appalled. It had a thick layer of dust. The shelf itself and the decor was covered.
He claimed this was a daily duty to make me clean it for him.