Work/Life

[ryanreacts]

 I am annoyed to report that work & life have both been stressing me out lately.

Let's start with work. 

Ever since I found out they switched me to nights by showing up for my usual dinner shift and reading the schedule, I have been and still am pretty paranoid that something like this might happen again. Oh stupid Ryan, didn't you know you were supposed to be here two hours ago? Stupid Ryan, didn't you know that as of one minute ago you're fired?

To make it even more difficult, my body is still not adjusting to the change very well, approximately six weeks later. Apparently, the last time I worked overnights, I was three years younger, and my job was mostly standing around. Who knew, being almost thirty-eight and doing lots of difficult physical labor five nights a week is fucking difficult. 

Especially with my housing situation being in limbo. Are they still moving me to The Annex? And if so, WHEN? I still feel like it would be kind of dumb to buy any more furniture until I do move, but at this point it's been almost three weeks. Is this normal speed for HR, or are they waiting for someone to move out? If I email them to ask what's up, will they even remember what I'm talking about? 

I have missed quite a bit of work since switching to overnight cleaning. Two nights ago Chef had to ask me to sign a write-up. He said that he really didn't want to, but corporate protocol blah blah blah. I briefly explained about how I'm struggling to adjust to the daytime sleeping and settle into a routine, and even a little bit of the housing limbo situation. He was sympathetic. He also mentioned that we are going to be losing Eva in a few weeks and her replacement is going to be me. This is wonderful, because I really miss sleeping at night and getting paid to just wash dishes, but it does make me concerned that they might make me have a roommate again. Chef said he doesn't think they will, I can't remember if he had a specific reason. But that really does make me wonder if they're still moving me to The Annex. Or will HR still think I'm working overnights, since apparently no one tells them when my schedule changes? 


(This also means that I'll have to deal with another big change soon, and for the moment my work schedule, like my housing situation, is in limbo.)

I'm also really struggling with the fact that this resort is owned by a billionaire, but the kitchen in the literal hottest place on Earth doesn't have a much better AC. And that's not all, the kitchen is sort of falling apart. The orange hose, dish hose, at least one line fridge, at least one cooler, and at least two little spots right over the dish pit are leaking. How long will it take them to fix this? Will the ceiling collapse first?

Also, I haven't been able to clean the hood in over a week because the big ladder disappeared. Chef said he's working on getting another one, since that one technically belongs to Engineering - which is fine, but again, this place is owned by a billionaire. We should be able to do things like buy a fucking ladder.

Whether they keep me at The Gulch indefinitely or actually move me to The Annex, I will be a short walk away from work, so I won't need to worry about catching a shuttle home, so I could still do most of my overnight cleaning tasks pretty regularly. But I might need to start a little later so I can stay later without risking overtime? Hmmm. But, I mean, if nothing else, I could regularly sweep & mop all of the floors. That doesn't take too long, but it does make a big difference (Michelle has told me so at least twice), but it didn't get done before because I was always racing to finish everything in time to catch the last shuttle and often failing. The cooks, servers, and dishwashers all sweep & mop their own areas of the kitchen nightly, but everybody is so pressed for time that they can't be bothered to make the floor a priority, since after all it is there to get walked on. But I'm fairly certain I could do them all in less than an hour, even after a full dinner shift of dishwashing, every night. I could even deck brush two or three sections every night without taking too much extra time. Filtering and/or emptying our two fryers is also fairly easy. I could still sweep & deck brush behind the line once a week. Cleaning the mop sink as needed is simple. Can't clean the hood again until we get another big ladder, which is actually fine because that does take a lot of time and also it's gross, so I support the idea of letting the cooks do it themselves once a week or so. (I mean, obviously I am willing to do it myself, but they're gonna have to schedule two hours for me to get everything as clean as possible.)