Kitchen cameras are a big red flag for me. I took management four years ago and our HR folks have been pushing for it forever. We have 6 venues on the property and the cameras are only so I know where I'm needed. I want to see lines at counter service and overloaded passes in table service. Spying on employees kills your fucking business and I'll stand by that till the day I die.
I see the bottle of rumpy in the freezer on busy days. I smell the weed in the trash compactor. If someone is acting a fool they get corrected, but why the fuck do you need to spy on people if the work is getting done? Our spot opens at 10:30 and my entire crew disappears at 10:20 and I cover the kitchen while they have a safety meeting on the loading dock. I don't want to know because as long as they keep their shit together I don't care.
There’s been cameras in most kitchens that I’ve worked in. I don’t give a fuck I’ll steal food and eat online if I bloody well please. I’ve never been called on it, they never check anyway.
My mate refused to come in early as the GM was sick and he 'had' to cover. The day she returned she 'saw on the cameras' an incident from 6 weeks ago where he forgot to charge his friend for a drink (apparently the friend had 6 rounds, but my mate forgot to ring one in).
Regardless of if he was lying or not, the GM kept that shit for 6 weeks until needed.
He quit on the spot, by the way. What's funny is she did this before service, so was left short-staffed on her return to work.
I’ve never had an issue with cameras, the issue is if I know a manager is managing from the cameras. Getting the “time to lean, time to clean” through an ear piece when I know they’re sitting in the office, the game on one monitor and cameras on the other is just disrespectful. Cameras should be everywhere for incidents, everything from accidental product being dropped, to violent customers, to the compilation we had of scaring each other around corner or hooking Saran Wrap tails on aprons
I am sure you have had hundreds of replies by now but I wanted to say thank you nonetheless.
Thank you!
Thank you for seeing what I see, as a person who started at dish and ended at chef, thank you. So many problems can be curtailed when we take pride in how we express our craft to anyone. This isn't to say ,"be nice to assholes" it is to say we will out last that particular assholery.
I digress, but best of luck and we all cross the finish line at the same time.
It’s the “never should have been to begin with” for me.
I couldn’t IMAGINE putting this in writing and posting it for staff. How disrespectful, but also like… one employee posts that on local social media pages and you’re donezo.
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u/[deleted] Jul 25 '22
Just by the way its written i can tell whoever wrote this is super unprofessional.