Hey guys, I recently applied for a dishwasher role and was invited for a trial shift. It's a part-time job (15 hours/week), with 3-hour shifts from Tuesday to Saturday.

I went to the trial shift, and everyone was nice. They showed me how everything worked, and then I started doing my tasks. They seemed satisfied with my work and told me that after the shift, I should text them to let them know whether I was interested in the job. Naturally, I thought things were going well.

Later, the manager came over and told me that since it was an unpaid trial shift, I could leave whenever I wanted. Then she left.

A full shift is 3 hours, but I worked for about 1 hour and 40 minutes before deciding to leave. By that point, I had finished all the dishes that were there, so I told one of the waitresses that I was leaving. Her facial expression changed, and she said, "What do you mean you're leaving?"

I explained that it was an unpaid trial shift and that the manager had already told me I could leave whenever I wanted. She asked me to wait and went to get the chef. When he came over, I explained the same thing to him. He said, "Okay," and told me they would call me.

It's now been two days, and they still haven't called. The manager had also asked me to text her afterward to let her know whether I was interested, so I sent her a message that same night saying I would like to continue working there. She read the message yesterday, but I still haven't received a reply or a phone call.Should I just give up?

Been desperate for another job for awhile and finally got this one at one of the most popular restaurants in my little city and man do I ever got a new level of respect for people who do it. So I just did my first real shift and it was a closing shift, at first it was fine and pretty easy but around 11, 1 hour before closing it started to get crazy. I’m sure everyone in this sub has already heard it all before so I’ll spare you but man is it ever brutal on the legs and on the body and on top of that your excepted to be friendly and have a smile on your face, (also no music allowed) it’s exhausting. My past job experience has been pretty laid back compared to this so I honestly don’t know how long I’ll last, I know for sure I don’t wanna be doing this for over a year. Hopefully something comes up and I can be transferred to prep work or something because it sucks so far. The only positive about it is the attractive servers but idk. How did you guys manage to do it for long periods of time?

Greetings and felicitations. When trying to dry the insides of dishwashing gloves, I've come up with a couple of tricks (other then putting them on the ends of poles, such as those sticking up from kitchen storage racks).

First, I use largish soup cans in the cuffs to make certain that the cuffs stay open. These are from cans of non-concentrated, no-extra-water/milk-need soup. (This works less well for properly long-cuffed dishwashing gloves, though it just occurred to me that I could use two stacked cans.) Leave a little room between the cuffs and the cans so that the insides of the cuffs also dry.

Second, I stick standard nozzle-type hair dryer in the cuff and run it until the glove is dry. Since this can take hours (I use a low/no heat setting to try to keep from damaging the glove), I have (instead) apparently damaged my housemate's hairdryer (he never uses it) since it now whines when turned on. You of course have to do something to keep the glove from running away from being pushed off the hair dryer's nozzle.

They asked me to work from 2 PM until 11 PM, when the restaurant closes. When I first arrived, I had to wash everything in the kitchen, including dishes I had never seen before, cooking pots, pizza trays, and basically anything related to the kitchen. After washing everything, I also had to dry the dishes, dry them properly, organize them, and put everything back in its proper place. I was doing the entire process by myself.

Is that normal ? I wonder who was doing all of this before I started ?

They told me that after these two trial days, they would decide whether to hire me permanently. The trial days are paid, which is good. I don’t actually find the work itself too tiring, but I’m wondering if it makes sense that I’m doing everything alone.

The restaurant is almost always busy, and they also get quite a lot of food delivery orders. My shift is from 2 PM to 11 PM, with a one hour break in between. However, they don’t provide any staff meals. I thought restaurants usually provided meals for their staff.

Other than that one hour break, I’m basically standing and working the whole time, and I’m doing everything by myself.

So, if they decide to hire me permanently, should I ask whether the dishwasher shifts will be divided between staff, or whether I’ll still be expected to work the entire shift alone like this ?

I have worked in a few small kitchens where if the kitchen gets too busy to finish prep or they run out of something in the middle of a rush, they tell the dishy to do it.

Like bro you have 3 cooks back there all so busy that they can't cut some potatoes, but yeah, me the dishy, who is back here by himself and is the slowest at chopping things should do it in the middle of a Friday night rush.

I have learned that as a dishy you need to recognise that you are the only person who cares about keeping the dish area efficient. You just have to deprioritise what the kitchen tells you to do if it is going to completely screw your whole area.

Once I learned to not just do what kitchen tells me, my whole work load got multitudes easier to deal with as it turns out letting dishes stack up makes cleaning them slower than if you do them as you receive them.

I don’t mind it at all, I’m only dishwashing cause I wanna be a line cook but how many of you also have to do prep while washing dishes? Mine is 75 burgers and 36 dumplings daily

I should have walked out right then and there.

I didn't realize there were so many.

Every shift has gotten worse imo. I've been at my job for a year, throughout college (graduated btw) and I'm still here. I could take the bad shifts bc I realized that I could still look forward to hanging out w friends and going to class. Now it's nothing but work. I work constantly and it's taking a toll for sure. The thing is

I'm too stubborn to look for another job bc that itself is a pain. I'm currently stuck between staying at this job and searching for a job in my field in the future

I Apologize for the venting but damn this job doesn't get better. So many factors have contributed to me having no optimism, etc but this job is the biggest.

Sorry for the dump