Hello! I have a wonderful day job at a non-profit. Now that my semester is ending, I have decided to seek a night job in a restaurant. I have worked in restaurants for many years, off and on. I took a job at a larger scale local franchise doing dishes. The pay was $15 an hour.
Here's the catch. When I was training, which is basically one shift. The owner acknowledged that on weekdays, it's a two person job. On Friday and Saturday, it's a three person job. The restaursant is relatively high volume. Anyway. I'm dishing and trying to keep up, but I cannot. It's demoralizing because I want to do a good job and I take pride into the work that I do.
Anyway, he sets me up to do this by myself. No help, no nothing and he expects us to be done at 10 pm. Well, it's 9:20, clean and dirty dishes are stacked up high. I still need to do the floors, put every dish away. I spoke with the sous and he said that it is a two person job.
“But you know how the labor market is man, it's a two person, but sometimes you just gotta do it with one.”
I walked out after that. I felt bad about it, but I'm not doing the work of two people. I need the extra money right now, but I'm not going to burn myself out for it either. I think the worst part of all of this is that I feel like I need to justify it to myself.