These are the slow months at my restaurant.
If you haven't saved money earlier in the year you are likely to find yourself in a bit of a lurch.
Most people aren't really looking to get a hot meal at a restaurant during the burning hot days of summer.
We find ourselves with few guests to wait on and few dollars to spend.
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We always lose a lot of people during these summer months because the majority of people aren't making enough money to get by.
Just this week we lost three different servers. Two went to secretarial type office jobs and one went to a car dealership. The money is fixed and therefore steady.
It's difficult to keep people when they're making less than minimum wage.
We know it's going to be this way for a couple of months. Most of us are ready for it, but we are not happy about it.
When I got to work this morning my manager told me to expect a very slow day without much money.
I walk in with a newspaper and headed to the back to get a cup of coffee. My plan was to help the couple of customers that I did get and spend the rest of the day reading up on various cryptocurrency projects. Boring but easy.
Before I could even get the coffee in my cup a couple of corporate managers came in the back door.
They sent people to go get properly fitted shirts. They made everyone fix up their shoes. They made sure the restaurant was in perfect shape. I was on my knees scrubbing floor boards.
You are dealing with a group of employees that are making only a couple of dollars an hour because no one is coming out to eat and no one is there to tip them yet you are being as harsh as you can possibly be with them even though the majority of them are considering quitting.
How does this behavior make any sense?
Instead of reading the newspaper and going over cryptocurrency news while making a couple of dollars an hour and helping the few guests that I did get I ended up having a grueling Manual Labor Day and I still only made a couple of dollars per hour doing it....but I got to keep my job.
It blows my mind though. Instead of going out of their way to make sure that we stay they just go out of their way to make sure that everything is 100%. It's almost as if they blame us for the lack of guests.
They should have come in with Starbucks, pizza, donuts, and a variety of other things for us in order to try to keep us from leaving. Most people are considering going other places already and yet they are just pushing us out the door without a care in the world.
I really just don't get it.
Corporate management. What planet do these guys live on?