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[JVA5th]

Work was stressful yesterday and not because the work part. My co workers were all flustered and talking of walking out or quiting. I'm sitting there quiet and panicked inside well because if I lose the experienced people no way I'll manage this is just facts of my current situation. So anyone have a job opportunity lol. Of course I'd come into a job were everyone has about had it with management.

 

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[robertk]

Of course I'd come into a job were everyone has about had it with management.

I think that's more often than not these days.

 

[JVA5th]

I think that's more often than not these days.

I think also in part California it's hard to live in people get frustrated. Our wages are 15.60 minimum wage here. We work hard and are moving constantly. We only get two sick days and vacation you only earn like one day yearly or something ridiculous. While 15 sounds like a lot it's nothing in California. Not advocating for it to be raised as here prices just follow up. Many underlying issues need to be fixed. Can't say much along that line as it will breech into poltics. Management treats employees like trash. Now I know there are a lot worse jobs and my job is low tier but things still could be just a bit better. I do my job the best I can not because I respect management but because the elderly that live there are innocent and deserve respect(well most a couple are jerks but it happens lol)

 

[blossom]

Happy Friday ship people! xx hope u have all had a nice one xx 🤗

Just back from a day picking musket balls 😂 xx not as many as last week.. but enough to put a smile on my chops 😆 xx

 

[JVA5th]

Happy Friday ship people! xx hope u have all had a nice one xx 🤗

Just back from a day picking musket balls 😂 xx not as many as last week.. but enough to put a smile on my chops 😆 xx

Can't wait to see more of your finds. Always look forward to seeing things from a country with a lot more history than my own. I always find it really interesting.

 

[releventchair]

I keep having cold feet on stopping at the un touched sandbar. We have a spot called the cuban sandbar. I briefly hunted it with a customer that actually paid me to give his family detecting lessons. I hunted it for about an hour with this family, and it looked promising. Before that I havnt hunted it since 1996 !! Its about as virgin as it gets. I'll try and hunt it with my family on Sat if I can. I'm scared to set up here alone.....its a much wilder environment with sea life, and it's just creepy being alone out there.

If your self preservation alarm is flashing , it's doing so for a reason.
If mine wasn't broken , I might be in better shape!
Alone on a prime hunting site for predators doesn't read like a great spot to dive.
I can't say it would read any better with company.
Oh ya I remember Bart!
Last I saw em e was in a giant sharks maw leaking red ink crost Cuban bar. Had something with a glint to it in his hand.

 

[oldmxrat]

Good day all!

Water hunt was a bust yesterday, just clad and junk. It was nice to be out in the sun and water though!

 

[releventchair]

I think also in part California it's hard to live in people get frustrated. Our wages are 15.60 minimum wage here. We work hard and are moving constantly. We only get two sick days and vacation you only earn like one day yearly or something ridiculous. While 15 sounds like a lot it's nothing in California. Not advocating for it to be raised as here prices just follow up. Many underlying issues need to be fixed. Can't say much along that line as it will breech into poltics. Management treats employees like trash. Now I know there are a lot worse jobs and my job is low tier but things still could be just a bit better. I do my job the best I can not because I respect management but because the elderly that live there are innocent and deserve respect(well most a couple are jerks but it happens lol)

You get to. Take the money.
You get a better arrangement you can go for it.

Lil bro , I could tell you stories!
But you also need to go your way. Not mine.
But boy howdy I made mistakes.

But , you got this. Obviously due to the hours you've put into it.
Forgot the song from yesterday made me think of your work. But ya , you're not forgotten there.

I visited a home a couple times where visitors were encouraged to join their associated residents at lunch. It was pretty good. I suspect like your place of employment.
Kinda formal. Decent or better food, (Institutional food in my opinion is more art than science yet often applied more as a science...)
Most folks looked forward to dining. As they should.

Another home and one most recently visited to see a friend before he passed.....Was rough.
first I had to figure out where to get any info and log in as signage required. (Neither at hand or entrance related.)
The place was dark at lunch time. What elderly food related social gathering is dark?
Inmates , (and I should never use that term in an assisted , partially assisted or any other home) were parked all around one big table. Very quiet. A few not quite sure why they were there. A few it didn't seem to matter. My friend wasn't involved. He was instead in his closet of a room for some reason still apprehensive about his neighbor he didn't trust for good reason..

Between the two I could have worked at one of them years ago. The other I wouldn't have been able to change hats after work. And I could have said my earning money benefitted multiple people multiple ways at the one.

I know a guy. Somewhere around 4 grand a month independent - assisted living facility and they have a riot. Wasn't no riot at my friends visit. I didn't want to taste the food. Maybe I should have?
And from staff I encountered , anyone serving anything related to helping would have been welcomed. Not due to who was working. But how few were present. Yes it got done.
But it wasn't pow it's done , and we could expand on this no problem.
More a struggle to get through it and a time lapse you/ I wouldn't have in serving food. Where adding another chair or two would be a sense of burden rather than delight.
And yes I'd suspect management was a big part of why that facility's experience was what it was . I noted employees. And am not faulting them for a reason.
Was it my place to run regulations , the management would be living in house and participating at meal times. Including eating. Even if it means rotating facilities visits constantly.
And especially where multiple facilities exist in the same ownership.
that allows shareholders to skate as ever. But removes the excuse of ignorance from management. That has no business denying food is an important part of life beyond hiring a nutritionist and cook.

 

[JVA5th]

You get to. Take the money.
You get a better arrangement you can go for it.

Lil bro , I could tell you stories!
But you also need to go your way. Not mine.
But boy howdy I made mistakes.

But , you got this. Obviously due to the hours you've put into it.
Forgot the song from yesterday made me think of your work. But ya , you're not forgotten there.

I visited a home a couple times where visitors were encouraged to join their associated residents at lunch. It was pretty good. I suspect like your place of employment.
Kinda formal. Decent or better food, (Institutional food in my opinion is more art than science yet often applied more as a science...)
Most folks looked forward to dining. As they should.

Another home and one most recently visited to see a friend before he passed.....Was rough.
first I had to figure out where to get any info and log in as signage required. (Neither at hand or entrance related.)
The place was dark at lunch time. What elderly food related social gathering is dark?
Inmates , (and I should never use that term in an assisted , partially assisted or any other home) were parked all around one big table. Very quiet. A few not quite sure why they were there. A few it didn't seem to matter. My friend wasn't involved. He was instead in his closet of a room for some reason still apprehensive about his neighbor he didn't trust for good reason..

Between the two I could have worked at one of them years ago. The other I wouldn't have been able to change hats after work. And I could have said my earning money benefitted multiple people multiple ways at the one.

I know a guy. Somewhere around 4 grand a month independent - assisted living facility and they have a riot. Wasn't no riot at my friends visit. I didn't want to taste the food. Maybe I should have?
And from staff I encountered , anyone serving anything related to helping would have been welcomed. Not due to who was working. But how few were present. Yes it got done.
But it wasn't pow it's done , and we could expand on this no problem.
More a struggle to get through it and a time lapse you/ I wouldn't have in serving food. Where adding another chair or two would be a sense of burden rather than delight.
And yes I'd suspect management was a big part of why that facility's experience was what it was . I noted employees. And am not faulting them for a reason.
Was it my place to run regulations , the management would be living in house and participating at meal times. Including eating. Even if it means rotating facilities visits constantly.
And especially where multiple facilities exist in the same ownership.
that allows shareholders to skate as ever. But removes the excuse of ignorance from management. That has no business denying food is an important part of life beyond hiring a nutritionist and cook.

Management can be a mess. Most the employees are very respectful and care about the residents. But we get ran into the dirt. Me with my generalized anxiety disorder it can be even more terrible. I and most employees understand the residents aren't to blame so they will always be treated with respect. I mean there are a few residents I dread dealing with but minds I understand at those ages some just are no longer themselves. So in those instances it just is what it is you just deal with it. I honestly as much as I need the work and it's my only option right now don't think I can keep doing this. The stress levels daily just aren't healthy. I hope maybe as I gain experience it won't be so bad but sometimes I wonder if my memory and such isn't good enough for the job in taking orders I get all screwed up. I have a notebook to manage but people request things as I'm taking orders then I screw up because I have 3 people that have requested things on top of my orders and I either forget or mix things up. I really hate the days there are only 2 of us on the floor taking orders as I have a hard time keeping up with it. I'm trying but disappointed in myself I'm not able to handle what's consider a low tier job.

 

[releventchair]

Management can be a mess. Most the employees are very respectful and care about the residents. But we get ran into the dirt. Me with my generalized anxiety disorder it can be even more terrible. I and most employees understand the residents aren't to blame so they will always be treated with respect. I mean there are a few residents I dread dealing with but minds I understand at those ages some just are no longer themselves. So in those instances it just is what it is you just deal with it. I honestly as much as I need the work and it's my only option right now don't think I can keep doing this. The stress levels daily just aren't healthy. I hope maybe as I gain experience it won't be so bad but sometimes I wonder if my memory and such isn't good enough for the job in taking orders I get all screwed up. I have a notebook to manage but people request things as I'm taking orders then I screw up because I have 3 people that have requested things on top of my orders and I either forget or mix things up. I really hate the days there are only 2 of us on the floor taking orders as I have a hard time keeping up with it. I'm trying but disappointed in myself I'm not able to handle what's consider a low tier job.

Ehhhhh.
But you're measuring the result by fitting you to the (defined as low tier) job.
Rather than the job to you.
there are a bunch of jobs involved and you're trying one.

What if we started you at the top? My guess is you'd still be anxious. And still try. And in time realize it's beyond just you or the job.
I remain convinced I could direct you (define the parameters and hows) to work on my hunting property and you'd get part of it done.

A nephew asked for confirmation on multiple projects. Which is fine.
But until I watched him and his approach and his deliberate and careful analysis's of each branch or sapling trimmed.... And listened to his mothers definition of what he was doing ; I didn't realize he wasn't going to hack along an edge like I would.
A friend this year knocked the heck out of similar work. Far ahead of me.
Then when hanging vines while trimming he had my limbs I was going to use , gone!
i was briefly confused wobbling around looking for them but figured it out.
He said sorry I said no sorry. You cut one and a hundred will grow back. I was only disorientated with where'd it/they go.

Did everyone get fed? That's the start.
I've no doubt you would improve the experience from there to beyond given a choice.
Because you are still a conscientious employee. Which is the best kind.
You have to live with your performance within the boundaries/barriers you are within.
And good enough has to be a baseline. But you have to be provided the means to do so firstly.
Then go from there.

Someone has told me more than once to not make someone else's problems mine.
But when you are part of a team that's not easy.
Certain work related problems can be exchanged perhaps . Returning us to allowed parameters and flexibility again. If we can't call the shots though , who's in charge?
Then we have someone who isn't there asking why we don't make decisions on the fly allowing effective flexibility....L.o.l..

 

[JVA5th]

Ehhhhh.
But you're measuring the result by fitting you to the (defined as low tier) job.
Rather than the job to you.
there are a bunch of jobs involved and you're trying one.

What if we started you at the top? My guess is you'd still be anxious. And still try. And in time realize it's beyond just you or the job.
I remain convinced I could direct you (define the parameters and hows) to work on my hunting property and you'd get part of it done.

A nephew asked for confirmation on multiple projects. Which is fine.
But until I watched him and his approach and his deliberate and careful analysis's of each branch or sapling trimmed.... And listened to his mothers definition of what he was doing ; I didn't realize he wasn't going to hack along an edge like I would.
A friend this year knocked the heck out of similar work. Far ahead of me.
Then when hanging vines while trimming he had my limbs I was going to use , gone!
i was briefly confused wobbling around looking for them but figured it out.
He said sorry I said no sorry. You cut one and a hundred will grow back. I was only disorientated with where'd it/they go.

Did everyone get fed? That's the start.
I've no doubt you would improve the experience from there to beyond given a choice.
Because you are still a conscientious employee. Which is the best kind.
You have to live with your performance within the boundaries/barriers you are within.
And good enough has to be a baseline. But you have to be provided the means to do so firstly.
Then go from there.

Someone has told me more than once to not make someone else's problems mine.
But when you are part of a team that's not easy.
Certain work related problems can be exchanged perhaps . Returning us to allowed parameters and flexibility again. If we can't call the shots though , who's in charge?
Then we have someone who isn't there asking why we don't make decisions on the fly allowing effective flexibility....L.o.l..

I mean just for me to remember dining set up and what goes at everyone's seat I had to draw out a diagram in my notebook of the room and have it all draw out. I simply struggle to remember all of it. But I was able to set up because I have the diagram I made. It still bothers me as i find my memory not adequate it's what makes me struggle a lot or I feel mine is worse than others at least

 

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[releventchair]

I mean just for me to remember dining set up and what goes at everyone's seat I had to draw out a diagram in my notebook of the room and have it all draw out. I simply struggle to remember all of it. But I was able to set up because I have the diagram I made. It still bothers me as i find my memory not adequate it's what makes me struggle a lot or I feel mine is worse than others at least

Memory...
The things I no longer remember. And worse , what I forget today!
Used to rattle off part numbers at one job...Boy oh boy.

I put silver ware on the left of a place setting still. Out of habit. Knife far left. But some cultures would be offended with a knife at the table..
Someone creates waterspots at times. I suspect the sink sprayer attachment I seldom use is involved. I don't say anything about it though.
It reminds me of being shown how to tumble/roll wet/damp silverware in a towel years ago though. But it's good enough for who it's for here. I'll even leave a fingerprint on a piece. But ... When I wash silverware I don't want waterspots. And dining elsewhere? Oh my. I've seen some nasty silverware now and then. If waitstaff was in a hurry and missed it who's fault is it? (It's multiple peoples fault by now.)

Big chain restaurant. Rather a franchise.
My hashbrowns arrived white. Pasty pale white and cold.
I'm not ordinarily a color biased /prejudiced type. But asked the waitress to return them to the kitchen and be browned.
She returned eventually with , white pasty hashbrowns.
Now my former restaurant worker self has to be polite.
She maintained it wasn't on her. I suggested my plate was. so she gets the manager.
Who maintains they are using a new oil by corporate decision and potatoes won't brown in it.. At which point I'm forcing myself to remain seated and not demand I be escorted to the kitchens grill for a demonstration of an oil that won't allow hashbrowns to be more than thawed.

Rule #1 for assured success. Manager needs to know every job. Not know about it. Know each job.
A miracle oil that prevents any browning can be end arounded on a returned potato order by putting it under the broiler without miracle non browning oil. And somewhere in the kitchen , or in range of it must be another way to brown a potato. Butter perhaps.

Yes fresh/new fryer oil reduces browning. Type can too.
Using fryer oil on the grill reflects the oils ability and inherent plusses and minuses.
Serving customers pale white cold hashbrowns is not a hashbrown success.
But then we had been watching the place decline for years.
And it got to the point so few locals visited it anymore it affected the former staff. The best of which had bailed and thier likes not duplicated through acquiring pre experienced or well trained and supported staff.
New restaurants meant competition. And welcomed by customer competition .
I doubt the cold pale potato manager lasted long. Potatoes said so. As did his inability despite being a restaurant manager to produce a browned version of one.
Could he run a dish machine? Know how to wash and sanitize after? See that clean silverware made it to the table?
Explain the spinach quality or lack thereof?
It doesn't matter I doubt he could.
What matters is three employees or more couldn't produce a decent hashbrown while each of them passed the blame to someone else.. And I'm not including the corporate count to the alleged albino hashbrown causation chain..
Who in corporate cooked hashbrowns?
Who in corporate ate clod pale while pasty hashbrowns?
Who should have?

Was my server supported by having what she needed in her work?
Am I qualified to evaluate a restaurant based on a single visit among decades of infrequent visits to multiple restaurants in the same chain and having worked in a quality restaurant myself? That doesn't matter either as much as the parking lot today does.
If not for highway victims...It might be closed. And even they appear less.
A newer Culvers is in sight. As are multiple fast food places.

I'll argue my server was in a no win situation.
Denied the minimum support there can be no such support extended forward. And that was as simple as a kitchen not being capable of browning a pile of hashbrowns. Worsened by a manager not being able to.
Great place to be a server? If not , pity the customer. Oh wait , the customer can go elsewhere.
As did the staff that learned they were not supported or provided what they needed to do the job.

 

[WHADIFIND]

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Packed out...ready to go !!

That first pic? I thought, "Funny place to put a commode. "🦧

 

[WHADIFIND]

Happy Friday ship people! xx hope u have all had a nice one xx 🤗

Just back from a day picking musket balls 😂 xx not as many as last week.. but enough to put a smile on my chops 😆 xx

I've often wondered what our ancestors would think about how they fought so hard. Just so their great, great, great grandchildren could go out and dig up used ammunition.

 

[WannaDig3687]