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soc_puppet) wrote2021-08-12 11:51 pm
soc_puppet) wrote2021-08-12 11:51 pm
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Boy howdy has it been a long day week month? Ish? Bleh.
Days at work were pretty long in the week-and-change leading up to AnimeIowa, so I was disappointed when I started up again after my "working vacation" and my days were really no shorter. It's been a grueling couple of weeks, with my favorite boss leaving soon and really just me and one coworker in the bakery most of the time. And I truly do like and appreciate this coworker most of the time, but she is... even less organized than I am? And hasn't found a method of organization that works for her yet? And also easily stressed out in a way that really stresses me out? So when she had to leave early today for a dentist's appointment, I ended up having a better work day than I usually do, even though I could have really used an extra pair of hands around the bakery for most of it.
I left "early" yesterday, in a way that mostly translates to "actually on time", because I had an oil change scheduled for this morning that I had to get up early for, which lengthened the day another few hours. Staying two hours late at work today didn't help much, even if it was a less stressful environment than it could have been (and also I got a lot of podcast listening done). I technically have tomorrow off, but I'm going in for a few hours anyway, mostly because we have fifty-eight six inch cakes that need finishing and boxing by Sunday afternoon and only half of them are even crumb coated yet (and I don't know if we even have enough frosting for all of them just now), but also because the aforementioned cake situation plus several large banquets in the past and upcoming weeks have badly depleted our time for backing up the essentials. Plus there was one day when I was instructed to make marble rye rolls when, judging by what's actually backed up in the freezer, I really should have been making hamburger buns.
Anyway, it's been. Something. At work. To the point where I'm once again considering the pros and cons of finding another job. I went into baking because it was something practical to do and straightforward to learn, and also has an element of visual creativity I can lean into, but I haven't really been able to take advantage of the "visual creativity" part for several years now, and the rest of the job is definitely getting to me. Especially the stuff that really shouldn't be part of our job. Like, we've got an actual dish washing room for the whole hotel? But the bakery staff still washes most of our own dishes, because otherwise we have to hunt them down in other kitchens on the regular (or, in the case with industry standard recycled sour cream containers, they get thrown out by one of the dish washers). And the cleaning crew the hotel hired to supposedly come in and wash our floors and maybe wipe off our appliances doesn't seem to have done any work in the bakery at all but for once or twice after they were hired.
So yeah. I'm tired and frustrated, but at least I'm going to sleep soon, and that will be something.
Days at work were pretty long in the week-and-change leading up to AnimeIowa, so I was disappointed when I started up again after my "working vacation" and my days were really no shorter. It's been a grueling couple of weeks, with my favorite boss leaving soon and really just me and one coworker in the bakery most of the time. And I truly do like and appreciate this coworker most of the time, but she is... even less organized than I am? And hasn't found a method of organization that works for her yet? And also easily stressed out in a way that really stresses me out? So when she had to leave early today for a dentist's appointment, I ended up having a better work day than I usually do, even though I could have really used an extra pair of hands around the bakery for most of it.
I left "early" yesterday, in a way that mostly translates to "actually on time", because I had an oil change scheduled for this morning that I had to get up early for, which lengthened the day another few hours. Staying two hours late at work today didn't help much, even if it was a less stressful environment than it could have been (and also I got a lot of podcast listening done). I technically have tomorrow off, but I'm going in for a few hours anyway, mostly because we have fifty-eight six inch cakes that need finishing and boxing by Sunday afternoon and only half of them are even crumb coated yet (and I don't know if we even have enough frosting for all of them just now), but also because the aforementioned cake situation plus several large banquets in the past and upcoming weeks have badly depleted our time for backing up the essentials. Plus there was one day when I was instructed to make marble rye rolls when, judging by what's actually backed up in the freezer, I really should have been making hamburger buns.
Anyway, it's been. Something. At work. To the point where I'm once again considering the pros and cons of finding another job. I went into baking because it was something practical to do and straightforward to learn, and also has an element of visual creativity I can lean into, but I haven't really been able to take advantage of the "visual creativity" part for several years now, and the rest of the job is definitely getting to me. Especially the stuff that really shouldn't be part of our job. Like, we've got an actual dish washing room for the whole hotel? But the bakery staff still washes most of our own dishes, because otherwise we have to hunt them down in other kitchens on the regular (or, in the case with industry standard recycled sour cream containers, they get thrown out by one of the dish washers). And the cleaning crew the hotel hired to supposedly come in and wash our floors and maybe wipe off our appliances doesn't seem to have done any work in the bakery at all but for once or twice after they were hired.
So yeah. I'm tired and frustrated, but at least I'm going to sleep soon, and that will be something.
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