Posted on 07/19/2017 8:49:16 AM PDT by PPSman
Unfortunately, your scenario is becoming the norm in the current business climate.
If your contract, agreement, terms and conditions of employment include the phrase “and other duties as assigned”, you are obligated to clean the toilets and take out the trash, even if you’re the mangager. Telling the management NO means instant firing with cause.
Something to keep in mind if you’re on a job hunt. Read the fine print.
If you fire 20% of the staff to cover the cost of a minimum wage increase then every quality aspect of the business is going to suffer.
When you are serving food, cleanliness takes a back seat to production. This study should not surprise you at all.
There is a reason why the restaurant bathrooms are cleaner at the Ritz Carlton than they are at the Circle K.
Oh sorry! Ol
I kept my job and the manager kept the cleaning crew rather than clean them hisself.
Well good for you for making that happen.
I’m not shocked they were so gutless. Because if you need your job, you won’t protest in the manner in which you did.
So please tell us the result as to how the bathrooms got cleaned and by whom.
The same reason I don't use the coffee maker or the non-disposable cups in hotels.
I was in outside sales. I was not a regular employee per se.
I worked on commisssion. No sales no pay. Wast in the office for 10 or so minutes a day to turn in orders. After I bought a fax machine I was only in when I absolutely needed to be and for the Wednesday afternoon meeting. When the manager wanted us in the office more we told him.....that’s less money we’re making so....no.
I worked for myself for about 12 years before I retired just so I didn’t have to deal with that crap anymore.
Post #23
Restaurants can afford fewer hires. People they do have are rushed, overworked. Possibly more careless. Can’t afford to pay better employees more so restaurants get stuck with less well trained, less motivated employees. Makes perfect sense to me.
If they run with less staff, there is less staff to clean restrooms, wash dishes, keep things put back where they belong, etc.
It’s a stupid article.....
I worked at SubWay one summer to help the owner out.....it wasn’t long before it was clear 75% of your time was cleaning everything from table legs, to bathrooms and walls. Since most everything is prepacked your time making food was basically in rush times.....after that you’re cleaning exactly what they tell you is listed for the day.
“having difficulty correlating “ Thank You! I wondered the same thing!
I said the same thing in the JOINT, did not work. heh heh
With higher wages, they have to cut costs one way or another. One way is to cut the amount of employee hours and/or the amount of supplies for cleaning kitchen & bathroom by half or more. I’ve seen it done.
32 year ago McDonald's gave then 16-year old me my very first job.
Back then, McD's always had a staff member "working the floor" for an hour; cleaning tables, taking out trash, maintaining restrooms, etc. Everyone looked forward to their hour shift because it was slower-paced than working the grill. We could take our time wiping tables, smoke a cigarette by the trash dumpsters, talk to the other high school kids who showed up, whatever. But we kept the place clean!
These days, businesses are operating skeleton crews, barely enough people cooking food, never mind cleaning tables. And if someone calls in sick, good luck...
The correlation is very simple: they hire less staff and what they do have is stretched ever thinner. One of the first things to go quality wise is the bathrooms because not every customer will use them but every customer will walk down the product aisles and ring up at the register.
An example from my own life: the WalGreens store my uncle works at was recently reduced to three people for evening shift. For the Entire. Damn. Store. Go into a WalGreens and imagine three people doing stocking, security, cashiers, price changes...literally everything that needs doing. You do the math on how often the bathrooms are gonna get cleaned.
Makes sense - thanks.
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