Update: 'It was enough to fire him immediately': Food hall managers keep kids and "fancy bigwigs" waiting outside in 90 degree heat

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    One Person at the Register? Fine. Get Wrecked at Dinner.
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    I'm glad I finally get to post here! This isn't my malicious compliance, but my manager's.
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    I(26F) work at my school's dining hall, but currently we have reduced staff and hours, as the summer semester is slow. At the same time, we get contracts with summer, academic, and religious camps of various numbers, so we're kept pleasantly busy. At my job, I have my real manager, "June", and our antagonist of the story, "Abby". Abby is the head of the catering unit on- campus, but she also believes herself to be our manager.
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    The owner of the dining hall, "Bert," was out of town this week on business, so June was left in charge. This week, we had a religious music camp totaling over 650 teenagers, and there were only six or seven of us working dinner shift each day (I don't know how many worked breakfast or lunch).
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    It took a day and a half for us to make a system of not only counting the kids. accurately, but also keeping food lines shorter so no one stays outside in the summer heat. This required three of us to be at the register. One of us would organize and split the kids into two groups, and the other two would count their respective groups. At the end of the meal period, we'd add our numbers. I was one of the counters, and with my partners, "Ruth, and
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    "Lisa", we were always on the nose with our numbers. It was a flawless system, the kids and camp staff were fed, and all was well in the world. While. all of this was going on, Abby was nowhere to be seen and doing her catering gigs outside of the dining hall.
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    Cue yesterday. We were thrown a massive curveball. I got a text from June hours before I was meant to clock in and was asked to *not* work at the register. Initially, I thought nothing of it. Upon my arrival to the dining hall, I only saw Lisa at the register. I asked how she was, and she told me two things.
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    1. Bert was back in town, and 2. yesterday morning, Abby jumped the chain of command, completely undermining June's authority, took all the credit for making everything run smoothly this week, and reported to Bert that our system as a "waste of labor."
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    "You don't need three people counting kids! Allocate two of them elsewhere!" To our dismay, Bert took Abby's side when protests arose. June and many of my colleagues who were present were absolutely livid, for us and for the kids. June, in her sassy wisdom, would let Abby have what she wanted, and we were told to comply: Lisa would count the kids by herself and I would cycle and serve the food line. Ruth already had the day off.
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    I failed to mention that at the same time we were going to serve dinner, there was a catering event upstairs with a bunch of fancy bigwigs
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    As soon as the doors opened, the first of the kids ran inside. With only one line, the campers had a single file from the food line, out the door, and hugged around the building for the next hour or so, when our system would take them half that. I felt terrible for these folks because it was consistently over 90 degrees all week and humid as all get- out.
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    Zoreb1 Bert is the real villain for not knowing how his business functions.
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    donorak7 Lmao she took credit for running. smooth this weekend and instantly said because I'm so great let's change everything! What a
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    Contrantier Should have got her on the nose. "What? You mean we're getting complaints for doing things YOUR way? I thought you said the old way that everyone liked and nobody whined about was just a waste of labor!"
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    MtnDream big problem is none of you pointed out this was Abby's system, and June's system worked.

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