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Time Change?!

Posted by Erin on November 24, 2008 at 5:30pm
So mom decided to change the hours for our shop from 5am-8pm to 6am-6pm. It'll be nice in some ways (I don't have to get up so early when I open), and lame in other ways (the high schoolers lose major hours). They decided to have one person to a shift because we aren't busy enough to need to people there. This is a bummer if you end up having to go to the bathroom while alone. :/ We should be making 23cups per person each hour. WOW that would be amazing! I absolutely love when things get that busy. Anyway, there's a large cut in hours which will be a bummer for those people who swap shifts often or at the last minute, request off every weekend on the calendar, and/or break rules (ie: texting, bar skills, customer service etc...). Thankfully, I can honestly say that none of these describe me. Not to say that I'm the perfect employee, or the best barista of them all. It just bugs me when people disrespect their owner or manager and think they can get away with it or won't have it swing around and bite them in the rear. :)Some thing I have fallen short on is gossiping about the people I work with ahem KRISTEN, and trying to tell people how to do things right. I'm working on making suggestions rather than telling people that they're doing something wrong, and I'm trying to be not cocky about it. I want others to be able to take the same pride that I do in my job. I want them to be able to hand a perfect latte to a customer, confident that they'll come back because it was the best they've ever had. It is just easy for me sometimes to be too blunt with people. I prefer others to tell me exactly what I'm doing wrong, why it is, and how to fix it. I forget that others don't expect the same from me, so I need to be easier on my words. :/
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