BrittanyM1
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I hope I don't get into trouble for posting this. But I started working at a small pizza place since October of '09 til now. And my boss Mrs. C (not her real name) says that I am the best waitress she's ever had and if she didn't really think that she wouldn't have said it... But I only make $4.90 a freaking' hour! And people are supposed to tip but no one ever does. I am 19 years old and im trying to get into to college and most of my check goes to my car payment. I work Fri-Sun and Tues I only get paid on the 1st and 15th and my check is usually 150-185. My car payment is $250 a month. That's $150 I have to set back every paycheck... The rest goes into my gas tank or food for the next two weeks. Anyway...at this restaurant I work at even tho I am the waitress I don't take the customers orders. They order make their orders up in the front of the restaurant and we call them a P1 type their orders in a comp. These P1's have to train to do their job because we dont just type "Small Cheese Pizza" in the computer we have special codes we have to learn and we dont just serve pizzas we serve pastas, sandwhiches, chicken, etc. So there are SO many codes. And Mrs. C told me a few months ago that she will hire someone else to replace me and put me as a P1. But no one has started to train me yet. SO I decided to learn how to make things in the kitchen. And I know how to make everything except rolling out dough and pastas. I can read the ticket codes and everything, which ALOT to learn and memorize. I have talked to Mrs. C about instead of moving me to the front (P1) can I just be a cook instead? And cooks make minimum wage. My bf used to work as a cook and his paycheck was at least 300 each paycheck. Well recently my bf got a job at Wally World. And two delivery drivers quit so we are hiring some new people. Well last Tuesday the district manger Mr. G said that we were going to hire two new cooks I became furious. Then a portly young lady comes in with her application saying that she has an interview and a young lad also comes in with the same excuse ( and this lady and lad both just happen to know Mrs. C, the hiring manager *cough*) now this "lady" just got fired from her last job and used to be a cook at the same resturant, she was hired, and this "lad" is 16 and has never had a job and knows Mrs. C, he was hired. I tell Mrs. C "You know you could just put me back in the kitchen and I'll still be a waitress and other days since I know how to do everything." She laughs in my face! Today I go into work at 5, and this lad is in uniform ready to get cookin... And know that that lad is very nice and I have nothing against him. Then I learn that tomorrow this lady is gonna start her cooking job again... And I learned that this lady wasn't a very good cook and Mrs. C said that she doesn't think she can trust her. Why hire her in the first place?? OK. So do you think its fair that I'm stuck with the lowest paying job on the planet while I'm trying to go to college and trying to survive on $4.90 and hour while a 16 year old boy with no prior experience and has a buttload of things to learn and make $7.25 and hour while still in high school and now has a crap load of money to blow on candy and undies should get hired and me stuck in the black hole of waitressing?? I am furious about this because I'm tired of feeling like I'm being walked all over. There are a lot of other things that Mrs. C askes me to do for her that is NOT my job that I do without complaint because I dont like pissing people off. I want to tell her how I feel because I AM looking for a new job but I don't know when thats going to be because I am SO tired of working here and I need money because I'm pretty much on my own... What should I do? Sorry so damn long guys.
Thanks for putting up with my bitching.
Appriciate your answers!!
Thanks for putting up with my bitching.
Appriciate your answers!!