I have NOT been errant or truant today.
I've popped in because I had a very trying day at work.
Last night's closer was lazy, lazy, LAZY - didn't do three-fourths of the closing sidework, nor do she do anything which would help a morning opener.
She used all of the sliced lemons and didn't bother to slice another bowl full.
She left the 1000 Island dressing container one quarter of the way full, with a note on the gallon of 1000 Island saying NOT to fill the dressing until the bottle was empty and washed; rather than emptying the 1/4, washing the dispenser and then re-filling it which would have taken about the same amount of time it took to write the note. . .
Being the manager on duty as well as the server, I did the double work, doubled thanks to that server.
By 11:30, the bartender on duty still hadn't shown up. Not a soul could reach her, including her mentor - our owner. So, I then had a bar to set up - a half and hour AFTER opening, and I'm not a mixologist and barely know where most of the liquors are kept behind the bar, nor could I readily mix up a cocktail unless it was definitely two parts mixer to one part alcohol.
Phone tag was played with the owner, calling to see if the bartender had arrived or called, but to no avail. I had got a call through to the second shift server, and she agreed to come in two hours early and bartend for three hours, even though she had never bartended before (but it was part of the owner's plan to get her into bartending).
So, then, I was a little stressed; the owner was a lot stressed, since the no-call/no-show bartender was his protegee, the chef was stewing about the lack of employee commitment, other than one or two of us.
All of this on a Steeler Game Sunday!
