I was gonna say you should talk to the manager, until I read that last bit showing she's aware
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Hopefully the manager can be effective at getting them to carry their own weight. Or pay the people who clean it up more for dealing with the mess...
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I can't stand people like that, glad to hear something is going to be done. Hopefully they smarten up or get the boot. I never understood how someone can be so lazy and rude, just leaving messes for other to clean.
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at least you get to keep some of the leftover baked goods... right?
I definitely agree that closing shift is hell, though luckily I was only working in a stationary shop so not quite so messy to clean up (but alas no leftover baked goods unless the girls at the cookie shop next door felt generous)
this is a very important help in surviving the world of retail. laughing at silly customers is good for your mental health!
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Some of the stories from this site were really great : )
It just goes over my mind how crazy and/or rude some people are to other people, only because there's a counter between them or they don't know them and meet them in public. I would be so embarassed to say such stupid things O.O
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As someone that experiencing work at food industry
That was pretty normal
We have to clean someone's mess everyday
People just won't understand they'll make our job easier if they don't mess everything up
But, that's how it is.. Customers being customers
They don't want to know what's our problem
Keep fighting my friend :)
Ranting is good xD
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So.. stop being so beta and stand up for yourself. You're gonna dread going in to work everyday until the situation changes.
Make sure they clean their shit before they can leave and tell them to suck your dick if they complain that you didn't clean if you did.
Or quit?
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Ah, good ol' Day Crew vs Night Crew. Happens at every restaurant.
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I had the same problem and I told the people that I am willing to HELP them (unless they are being dicks) but not do THEIR job. They didn't take me serious so I talked to the manager and dragged every single non cooperative employee to them and fucked them up verbally (still in a not bad tone but not good either) and made myself clear to the problematic people and the manager that I either get a part of their salary cash for cleaning up the messes they intentionally leave or they should frickin' do their jobs cause I won't do it. So since that moment it happened a few times again but I "pissed" them off that hard that they don't even try to interact with me. You don't need to get along with those assh*les. You do your job (only the things you start to do) and don't give a fuck about them. If they don't want to get into trouble they need to stay a few minutes longer to finish what they have begun. That's how business works with jerks. Stand tall and let them lick your shoes if they work AGAINST you in the same company.
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OKAY SO. I am a bakery clerk. Been doing this for about two months, with most of the closing duties on my shoulders. And lately, it's been tough. Like, "Sci-is-having-a-meltdown" tough. So here's a little vent for you, some insight if you will. Hopefully the point i'm trying to make will come across.
The day shift folk leave one hell of a mess for us closers to clean up. Like, they don't even have a decency toss out their trash and/or to sweep up after themselves. To their benefit, they usually wipe down the table. Usually. As soon as the seven-minute grace period hits, they leave. Leave all one to two of us closers with their messes. Now, there's two things about this that reeeeally bug me: one, leaving food and stuff on the floor attracts flies and gnats. Flies and gnats are critters you, believe it or not, don't want crawling around on breads and cakes. Weird, amirite? Also, we're all adults here. We can clean up after our messes, imo. Don't just leave it for us, be an adult and clean it up. ffs.
Also, they leave us with their daily duties to finish up. Like cookie packaging. They drag their feet doing it, they fail to finish it up, and then they bail and leave the work on us. So we got everyone's messes, and everyone's work that they didn't finish. Already stressful, right?
Well, we've been getting a lot of customers at night. A lot of picky customers. So many customers that both closers (provided there's two; sometimes its just one person) have to be doing customer service, which means no cleaning or food packaging is going on for close to two hours. It's nuts.
And THEN...we do our best to finish all of this, and sometimes we actually (miracle of miracles) pull it off. Even then, we come in the next day and the dayshift workers jump down our throat because they say we didn't do any cleaning at all (even though we DID, its just that there are bakers who come in after we're done cleaning and mess it up again). So they leave us all that cleaning, leave us all that extra work, leave us all those customers...and then get mad at us for not cleaning up their mess.
How they didn't understand why I had an emotional meltdown after all of this, idk. No seriously, anxiety attacks all over the place.
BUT the bakery manager showed up last night and got to see just what daytime folk have been leaving us. She was completely disgusted and is going to call them out on it. So that's nice.
But yeah, tl;dr version: buncha bakers leaving way too much stuff for the closers. This closer is doing the best she can, but it's just not quite there.
Here's a giveaway for listening to me rant.
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