Urge to Kill...Rising...Rising...

Red Alert.

I've said it a dozen times now: It is not possible to do a proper close and thorough clean-up of the resteraunt in 30 minutes. It just does not work that way, especially when you are serving customers right up to 7pm, and it takes 5-10 minutes just to till off.

Now they want us to do it in 15.

FUCK.

It took me an hour to get the majority of my chores done, that's 45 minutes longer than I was schedualed to be there, and that I WON'T get paid for. And the kitchen is still a mess. I didn't get time to sweep, mop or prep veggies for the next day.

As I understand it, the girls are starting to close at 6pm in order to be gone by 7.15pm. But that's just not the way I work. If you sweep/mop and do dishes before you close, you will just have to do it again before you leave. And I like to be sure that everything is cleaned and put away PROPERLY before I leave. I like to have extra meat, bread and veggies pulled and prepped for the next day. I like to be sure that there's enough pogo batter, gravy and soup for the next day. And, I totally agree that the kitchen should be clean (read: immaculate) and organized at the end of the day.

But in 15 minutes? Um... no. Maybe if there was 2 people there. Maybe if we stopped serving at 6.45, giving us time to shut the fryers down and clean the grills before we till off. probably if the boys did the sweep/mop at the end of their shift, as well as the rest of the store. But it doesn't happen that way, so the kitchen is left dirty, and I come home fustrated and pissed off because I feel I've done a half assed job, and it LOOKS like I"ve done a half assed job, even though I worked like a friggin dog to get what I got done.

The Julies have already threatened to write people up because the resteraunt has been left a mess before. I understand, really I do, but I"m only one person, and maybe I'm just too slow to be back there for a close.

At this point though, if they write me up, I walk.