There is nothing worse than being on call. You have to be ready for work just in case they call so you sit on your hands during the time they may call you. It's a no win situation. Rarely when they call you do you go in and are actually needed because the time you get there the rush is over and you are left maybe grabbing one table and cleaning the dirty tables of people who have ate and left. This hurts because someone else made all that money and you are being called in just to help clean the mess and probably do side work that is piling up in the dish pit area.
Yet if you are not called in you got ready for work and put aside all plans. So your time was spent not making any money at all and not doing anything you wanted to do either. A total waste of time.
My wife was on call yesterday and was not called in. Apparently it got busy enough that she could have been called and got some tables. Then she goes in for the evening shift and is told they could have used her. Well apparently the opener likes to hog the tables. There is no host there to control the seating either so this opener just sits herself. No matter how busy she gets she thinks she can handle them all and the manager just goes along with it even if he has to run all the food himself.
So next Tuesday she will be there for lunch. This is the third problem of being on call. Not being called when you were needed. More about why this is happening on my next post.
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