Banquet Funtime
Jan. 15th, 2026 03:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ryanreactsTonight was My Thursday - when I arrived everything was a little chaotic but I caught up fairly quickly, and honestly stayed caught up until almost the end of dinner service.
And then Mike (and Matt and some other FOH person I've never seen before, who may usually work at another location?) started delivering the banquet dishes.
I'm not sure how many guests were served at this fucking banquet. I did not count the individual heavy annoying banquet plates, but there were five or six milk crates full of them. So this banquet left me with quite a bit of dirty dishes. I was not able to clock out until 3:13 AM, easily the latest I have ever been stuck there when I am scheduled 3:00-11:00.
The overtime will be nice, of course.
But at this point I'm about ready to start slapping people if they don't hire another dishwasher soon. Even "just" normal dinner shifts are so fucking busy lately that it is honestly an epic struggle to stay on top of everything, and I am very good at this. If I had a choice between that much overtime or another body, I would definitely choose another body. Obviously. As obnoxious as this banquet was, if Alex had also been scheduled we could have gotten out at least ninety minutes sooner, I am sure.
Anyway, as soon as I got home I had to do laundry. It absolutely needs to happen tonight, but I absolutely do not have enough energy to deal with a full load, so I just threw in a few outfits (including the work clothes I just wore for so long, of course!) and one towel. Currently has about nine minutes left in the washer, so I should be able to retrieve from dryer and put away in about seventy minutes? And then sleep, thank gosh.
Very good chance I might sleep until my first "prepare for work" alarm at 2:00.
And then Mike (and Matt and some other FOH person I've never seen before, who may usually work at another location?) started delivering the banquet dishes.
I'm not sure how many guests were served at this fucking banquet. I did not count the individual heavy annoying banquet plates, but there were five or six milk crates full of them. So this banquet left me with quite a bit of dirty dishes. I was not able to clock out until 3:13 AM, easily the latest I have ever been stuck there when I am scheduled 3:00-11:00.
The overtime will be nice, of course.
But at this point I'm about ready to start slapping people if they don't hire another dishwasher soon. Even "just" normal dinner shifts are so fucking busy lately that it is honestly an epic struggle to stay on top of everything, and I am very good at this. If I had a choice between that much overtime or another body, I would definitely choose another body. Obviously. As obnoxious as this banquet was, if Alex had also been scheduled we could have gotten out at least ninety minutes sooner, I am sure.
Anyway, as soon as I got home I had to do laundry. It absolutely needs to happen tonight, but I absolutely do not have enough energy to deal with a full load, so I just threw in a few outfits (including the work clothes I just wore for so long, of course!) and one towel. Currently has about nine minutes left in the washer, so I should be able to retrieve from dryer and put away in about seventy minutes? And then sleep, thank gosh.
Very good chance I might sleep until my first "prepare for work" alarm at 2:00.
