Training! Finally!

One day low and behold we were told when training would begin!  I was very happy that this day finally arrived!  We were given about 3 days notices of when we had to be ready to start and the training was every day for a week with one day off.  This was tricky to do last minute because at this point I was in school, working another part time job, and had a professional internship for my major.  Somehow I made it work getting everything in.

The first step was to sign up for training.  You could attend either a day or evening session.  Apparently the management had never heard of shared Google Docs and it was too complex for them to coordinate all of the staff so everyone had to go there in person and physically sign up.  There was a sign in sheet passed around for each of the 5 different training days and everyone signed up for the morning or afternoon training session.   

 

While the majority of the girls lived nearby some lived in the next county over and I know a couple lived  almost an hour away so I thought it was a little unreasonable to have these girls to come all the way out there unpaid for 10-15 minutes just to sign up on these sheets.  Kayla the girl I met during orientation was very stressed out because she had a mandatory outdoor backpacking trip that weekend for school.  She had some unique major like wilderness studies or something like that.  The trip was basically part of her grade so she couldn’t get out of it. 

Kayla was told to bring a note from her teacher. OMG are we still in high school?  I get that they need everyone for training to learn everything but it’s their fault for keep

pushing the training back every week for a couple of months then giving us 3 days notice on when it starts.   Kayla would be fine; she could catch up especially since it was known they were hiring newer girls that week.   I thought it was ridiculous that they made it such a big deal for her since some of the new hires wouldn’t be there for the whole training.

Theresa seemed very stressed out and was snappy with a lot of the girls.  Restaurant openings can be stressful and crazy.