Adding my AGM to the list of "barely competent" managers, after yesterday's shift. It was a really slow night when I started at 6, and by 7:30 I had two tables total, when my manager asked me if I wanted to help out by breaking one of the other servers. Sure, why not. That server had one table and it was slow enough that it wouldn't be too bad.

Take care of the table and halfway through the break, the AGM offers me one of two options: I can either go home (and make all of $35 in tips before tip out), or I can clock out as a server and break people since it's slow. Whelp, ok. I'll break because I rather make some more money on my paycheck than work for two hours when I have all of three shifts scheduled.

Start breaking people, and then as I'm heading into the bar at one point, what do I see? It's getting a bit busy, and they're seating tables in my former section after it was too slow to keep me on as a server, and having other servers pick them up.

Combined with my schedule for the week after next in which I get all of three shifts (again), I admit I had a bit of a meltdown, and ask the AGM if I can expect this for the rest of the season, or if I inadvertently did something that got me getting reduced shifts because that seems like the only logical conclusion when brand new servers are getting more shifts than me, despite totally open availability. His response "I don't know, you know who does the schedule. Check with them."

So you, as the person immediately beneath the GM, can't say yes or no if my schedule is going the way it is because projected sales? K, bye. I'm in a snotty mood at this point, not trying to be but it happens. After a certain point I run into one of the few competent managers who tells me I'm freaking out for no reason, and no, I didn't do anything to justify a bad schedule. They're just back at the point where they keep minimal staff on during the week days, and they're hiring new servers at the end of September. Which means I'll be picking up a training class or two, and hopefully they'll get my schedule straightened out because right now the only way to get anything near full time when we aren't in summer is to be a long-time employee (aka there since the beginning, which consists of two people) or to be a certified trainer, which I am. Bleh. In any case, I ended up applying for a second serving this morning, and am about to interview for that because I finally found my "can't do it" point.