'The look on her face was priceless': Teenage restaurant worker leaves kitchen surprise for clueless manager

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    Manager wouldn't help when short staffed. Had to do the work herself at the end of the night. When I was in high school I had a part time job working at a local restaurant. One day I came in and was scheduled to wash dishes, no big deal. I walked into the back and came to find out that the morning shift did not have a dish washer therefore there was
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    a mountain of dishes. No bueno. On top of all of that, we got slammed that night. As a minor, I was required to take a 30 minute break in order to work my full shift (4-10pm I believe). As I clocked out for my break I asked my manager if she could have someone cover my position while I was on break to prevent an even worse situation than was already at hand. She responded 'Won't be able to.
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    You'll just have to stay late and finish it' An important thing to keep in mind is that this manager was notoriously lazy and unhelpful. She never lended a helping had to get things done faster. She would rather stay 3 hours past close sitting in the office waiting for us to finish our closing duties instead of coming out and helping and getting everything. done in a timely manner. She also was not very familiar with child
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    labor laws in Ohio. Since I was a minor, not only did I have to take a 30 minute break, I also could not work past 11pm on school nights. So after clocking back in from my break, I resumed washing the mountain of dishes that had accumulated. I took my time and didn't rush to get everything cleaned, but also wasn't going extremely slow on purpose.
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    10:59 rolls around and I walk into the office to tell her that I am leaving. She asked 'got everything done?' 'Nope!' I said. 'It's a Wednesday night. Can't work past 11pm. Labor laws. I left the water turned on for you. There's still a lot left!'
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    The look on her face was priceless. I clocked out with the biggest smile on my face knowing that she was going to have to leave the office and do something for once. Asked another manager the next day to see what time she clocked out. 1:15am!
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    sparkly_awesome I always had the most respect for the people who worked the dish pit. Whenever I had to pitch in as a manager or a server (that silverware ain't gonna roll itself) I hated that feeling of being overwhelmed and sweaty and dirty.......
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    riddus Here's a secret to being a successful and respected manager-Your staff is not there to serve YOU, rather you are there to support the staff. Person can't make it to work on time- you help them arrange a ride or pick them up yourself.
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    Person can't do the job correctly- you train them yourself. Work in the outdoors- you go on runs for cold drinks or hand warmers You lead by service and example and anyone who would tell you differently isn't doing it right. Nobody will willingly do things for you if they know you wouldn't do for them.
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    nu... A manager who won't do any job that they assign to someone else is useless. When I had people working for me in a manufacturing environment if I wasn't at a meeting or doing a required task I would take the hardest, dirtiest job available.
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    Then when anyone came to me and complained my first response was do you want to do what I'm doing so I can go do your job. Most people. said no thank you.
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    everyonesmom2 I'm surprised she didn't leave them for the morning shift to do.

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