Team Work

You know how people say that we are part of a team? And, how all employers want that in their workers. The help wanted ads say it, 'must be a team player'. We all adhere to it, and even put it in our resumes. But are we, are we team players?

Okay, I'm a Cook, and some. Would say I'm a Professional Cook. I don't give myself that title. Even though I can cover every station in a kitchen, I consider myself a Team Player. What the industry calls me ia a Chef Tournant...a fancy name. That means if a person doesn't show up for work for any given reason, that means I can cover that station. Depends on how close my orignal station is to the station I'm covering. If its on the other side of the kitchen, The Chef rearranges the kitchen, the workers so that that one station is covered. Sone kitchen workers have a problem with this, but not I. Here's what I have a problem with and I don't care who doesn't agree with me.

I have a prolem with a kitchen worker who is placed in a postion all because they have time on the job. Having time on the job and even in that position doesn't me that that person can handle that postion. They were only given that job becauswe one, there was an opening for it from the beginning and 2,... put it to you this way. When a person can no longer cover that station and they ARE AT work, and some one else not only covers that said postion PLUS their own postion...there is a problem. Because that person has time in the work place, doesn't mean didly squat to me.we are a TEAM, and if you can't perform your duties as part of a team, some needs, something has to be done...PERIOD!! I'm not the one to hold my tongue. I don't care what you have going on outside of the work place, it matters what you do IN the work place.

I was told that I couldn't move into a postion because...well, I have to wait until some one quits or gets fired. But Supervisors have feeling, they have a heart and they take into consideration that people do have issues that hinders them from doing their job. But if a person can't do their job AND is showing up for work everyday, what does that tell the other workers? Enough said.

If you keep doing the same thing and are getting the same results...insanity, right? So, if a woman tells me she is bored, I take a look at what's going on in her life. Finds out she is on disability and gets a check every month in the mail so to speak. Okay, what incentive to do you to want to further your...doing something different. Its not that you're bored, to me its that you don't want to do anything else. Maybe I'm not expressing myself right. What they really want is some one to supplement their fix income, not to do anything with, but some one else to help support them. I told her that. Oh, you don't have enough 'extra' money to do the things you want to do? Who fault is that? Not mines. Told her the God's honest truth and she took it well. And she says that..all men want is sex, that there is more to life than just sex. True there is. But its nothing like going out and having a good time from mid morning to evening, coming home relaxing and then..making love to some one you spent the day with. What's wrong with doing something, a day trip, a splitting all cost down the middle? What some people have are Bentley dreams when all they can affound is a Honda. Some people have to learn to live within their means. Some people need to learn to 'save up' for that trip. Not everyone can be a 'Baller'.