Hi again guys! 

I've posted on here about my wonderful serving stories, and I got another one to add. So buckle up, cuz here we go!

So at the place I work at, we have a job called Breakers. Essentially, these people are meant to go around relieving people of their section for a half hour while they go on break. The Breaker makes sure the tables are taken care of and everything is fine. They don't get tipped, but get paid a wage per hour.

Now normally, this job isn't bad. You go in to work, break a few people and then get to leave. No sidework. No hassle. In and out. Sounds fair right?

Well lately, they seem to think that Breakers are their bitches, able to balance a load of at most 12 breaks. Now do the math, 12 breaks is 6 hours. And that's not including the fact people come back late or don't clock out fast enough. Not to mention the Breakers get screwed over because they don't get a break themselves despite being on the floor longer than some of the servers they relieved!

I recently had a shift where I was serving for lunch then breaking for dinner. My relief didn't come in until I was nearly supposed to be there for my Breaker shift, so I had a measly 20 minutes for myself to relax and sit down, before I had to go back on the floor to break 10 people.

We also seem to have the worst clientele also. It's why no one likes working the dinner shifts because as soon as 7 rolls around we know the types of people that will be coming in: the ones that will try to get things for free, complain about everything, stay there for hours, or (my favorite) come in 10 minutes before we close and make us stay there for an extra 2 hours.

It's not fair really how poorly we seem to be treated lately. You'd think you'd want the front of the house people, the ones going to tables all day, to be happy and cared for, but we tend to be given the worst of the worst when policy changes come around. I know it's all corporate, but sometimes I think those men and women in corporate need to don an apron and do our job for a day and THEN tell me what needs to be changed and implemented.

Don't get me wrong, on most other days I enjoy my job and am thankful to have employment. I make a decent living off of serving, but I can't sit idly by and see these things continue to happen. And we've voiced our opinions on them too. Told managers, GMs, DMs. Everyone we could, and nothing has gotten done.