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[soc_puppet]

Left work at a much, much more reasonable hour today than I have... the rest of the week, honestly. Only twenty minutes after I was scheduled off, and even that I might have skipped with a few different choices.

I managed to finish all of my assigned tasks today, as well as a task that had originally been on my list for tomorrow, and sweep and mop the majority of our workspace. (Why am I sweeping and mopping the bakery space? Because the cleaners who the hotel had originally hired all left the job, and the cleaners they contracted to do it showed up all of maybe twice, shortly after being contracted, and we in the bakery haven't seen any evidence of them since.) My other options included leaving maybe half an hour early, doing a few other menial tasks and whittling away the time until Leaving O'clock, or helping out in the dish room.

I honestly would have liked to help out in the dish room, but my decision came down to this: There were other people who were willing and able to wash dishes, but not who were willing and able to clean the bakery floor. And it needed cleaning badly. Probably for more than a week now, but we've been so slammed by things that we need to do, neither me nor my two baker coworkers have had the time or energy to do more than a quick sweeping job for ages. So today I took initiative and did the most thorough sweeping I could manage, and at least a decent mopping job (I hope). Mopping took a lot out of me (it's physical in a very different way from baking), but ultimately I think I'm glad I did it.

Anyway, other than that, I'm still recovering from the 11:20 shift yesterday, and it's highly likely that I'll turn the lights out early today. And also sleep through most of Saturday and Sunday, since those are my next days off. We'll see what tomorrow brings...

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[alexseanchai]

oh that sounds like so much fun

[soc_puppet]

We had one of the hotel's office workers stop by a few days ago and complain about how dirty the bakery was.

Oh really? It's dirty? Between the sheer volume of work a department of three people has to do for the events you keep scheduling and the lack of actual cleaning staff, our bakery is somehow not sparkling clean? Gee, I wonder how that happened.

(The 11:20 day was getting breakfast ready for 250 people. This wouldn't have been so bad by itself, but someone decided that each person needed three breakfast items each (usual estimate is 1.5 per person, maybe 2 for big eaters). So that was 250 scones, 250 pieces of biscotti, 150 muffins, and 100 "energy bars" (kinda like vegan/GF granola bars?). All of which needed to be baked or otherwise prepared and arranged nicely on trays before eight in the morning. And there were still other banquets. I am... a little bit fed up with this.)

[alexseanchai]

dare I ask how much was left over from that breakfast and what they did with it?

also, ugh

[soc_puppet]

There were 50 energy bars, ~125 scones, and ~50 muffins that we got back. (If the plastic wrap/covering isn't removed and the dishes don't leave the prep area, we can legally "re-use" the items.) We didn't get any biscotti back, but I'm reasonably sure some of it went to the staff break room to be snacked on, along with another partial tray of scones. So yeah, a good third of what we made, at least.

[alexseanchai]

so 2 items per person was, if not a necessary increase, certainly an appreciated one, and 2.1 would have been a reasonable increase, but 3 was way too many.

wonder if the person who insisted on 3 noticed that?