Sunday 1 April 2007

Ayla is finding her feet in an untidy workplace

Ayla emailed us a bit disgruntled about her workplace ..

I know im an apprentice and stuff so I get the shit jobs, but comments like get in the sink where you belong, and go and boil the prawn guts. and clean rotten fish heads out of the fridge that i have left there for you.... they hid the bread knife from me on the busy night. and said use a normal knife. this squashed the bread and then the waitresses complained. they just laughed at me and said things like "ayla thats unacceptable" Nick(the owner) did shit all!!!!he was going to put me on cold larder the other night when we had 80 people in all by myself.... I still havent been shown wat i was sposed to do. when i asked for help on such a busy night, i just got hurry the f**k up and how long have you been here now????? they arent helpful and its frustrating. and then they laugh at me. it changes your mood in the kitchen environment and Idont like that cause I then become cranky and snappy as no body is willing to share any information, when in fact they should be as im an apprentice and we are all learning together! dont they understand team effort/work? they are so childish. I have to go and get ready for another day at work. I walk in with a smile and out with frown. Nick said he admires the fact that I always go in with a bright smile and happyness about me. I hope he does something about the attitude in the kitchen. It hate being so emotional about it.

Then we recieved this

The two nasty chefs have left! , they were being escorted by security officers. the size of hadgrid!!!!!! ill give it another 2weeks but ill still look for another job. email is awesome, i get to talk 2talk 2you whenever i want. i miss looking nice and smelling clean. at the moment i smell like fish guts, look like potatoe bake, (a slpoopy mess), my nails are filthy and i just feel gross. i have lost 5kilos..... im giving it another shot tho and ill see what happens. the new chef calls me smiley and says that i have potential..

Then this...

hey guys, work yesterday was fantastic!!!!!!!he is professional, ( the new head chef) about 50 years old and french. He is real rad.i love wat Im doing now though.

thankyou guys for understanding.

Hang in there Ayla , the real world has it's ups and downs, and that was rock bottom so it can only get better pity the atmosphere in the kitchen was so destructive, the establishment is award winning, but how is a mystery ?!

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