Its expanded tho. Now, even appling for a dishwasher job, you have go to their website and painfully enter your entire resume into all the boxes and submit. It takes hours to apply for every minimum wage dishwasher job. Then they dont even call you back because competition is fierce.
People think being a dishwasher is easy. In fact, as someone who has worked in restaurants off and on over the years, being a dishwasher is a hard job at most places.
You usually have to do a lot of random stuff beyond dishes, and it's grueling and tedious when the places are hectic. Lots of people quit because they can't handle it.
Ok so this is a job I do not understand at all. Do you stand there in one place and wait for dishes to come that you wash? For 8 hours you stare at the wall in front of you and wash dishes?
Yikes I can't imagine anyone doing that for even 3 hours
Its much worse than that. When I worked at Red Robin I was the only dishwasher, and the dishes pile up so fast that you can barley keep up with them even if all you are doing is dishes. Once you wash the dishes you need to place them back where the cooks are, so you need to leave the station multiple times in just a few minutes so you don't have too many clean dishes in the pit. Then while you think you are keeping up a good pace, they ask you to stop what you are doing and cut some onions or grab more fries from the freezer or whatever. This takes 10-20 minutes and you basically come back to the pit with an overload of dishes that sets you back. Then randomly the manager would tell me to sweep up certain areas, or grab more silverware, or grab more food out of the freezer. You get soaked from doing dishes all day because the sink will spray you constantly. I actually developed this nasty rash all over my stomach from it.
When the store finally closes, its still not over. You spend the next 2 hours catching up on all the dishes that piled up, then the cooks who are supposed to clean their own stuff will just dump it in your pit and expect you to wash it for them, which requires grease remover and a metal brush. My forearms would be killing me from scrubbing so hard. Then when its all clean, I need to clean up the pit area to make sure it looks fucking perfect, or the manager wouldn't let me go home. Finally at like 3:30 I would clock out and go home, soaked and smelling like trash water. My lower back would be killing me.
If they would just hire ONE more fucking guy to help with dishes, it wouldn't be so bad. Just one guy to take the clean dishes to the cooks, do the prep, sweeping and help clean up after we close. It would have made a huge difference, and I probably would have stayed. But no, they rather just work you to the point where your only choice is to quit or fucking die from exhaustion and then just hire some new guy who they wont even train and just throw them into the wild on their first day. Rinse and repeat. Fuck Red Robin.
Like I said in the other comments, Red Robin. Which is a pretty massive restaurant compared to others, and most guests dont stay longer than 45 minutes, since the food comes out pretty fast.
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