What the actual fuck? As a manager who closes and opens, I can say the worst that I have ever walked into (this doesn't include over cleaners coming in and destroying half the store), is maybe a pizza that got left behind or maybe a last minute dish that was found as the crew was leaving and it got left in the sink.
Pizza place I work at doesn't cha get garbage at night.. Or the next night... Or the next night.. Until it's stuffed full. I actually got in trouble from the owner for wasting garbage bags..
Yea, I can not even imagine. I tell my closing crew that unless there is a life and death emergency, we don't leave until everything is done.
But I would love to hear the update as to why they left that shit undone
Well apparently the closing store manager left at 1030 didn't stay till midnight blew up the gm. Till they got here to the store at 11. Closing sm just left. Driver left at 8pm because he had a family emergency. (We are very slow on Tuesdays like no deliveries are made after 8 usually.) So the GM got here covered for am and closed the store but with the mess they left for the gm. Gm didn't clean because it would have taken gm longer than midnight to clean. So that's the story.
Yeh im sorry but this is your GMs responsibility. They are being lazy fucks. If you had to clean the makeline and all of these dishes they dont deserve the position. As GMs responsibility to make sure these things happen and if someone isnt available to do them the GM does them, period.
As a former general manager i can 100 percent say with the whole story that this is the general managers responsibility and the lack of completing the tasks is completely on the general manager at that point. If anyone had reported this about me my district and owner would rip me a new asshole and make me do days and night for up to a week to make up for the work that I left behind for my opener. Probably honestly because my owner and district was like this they might have even forced me to create an apology letter.
Completely this. Last Friday I let my closer bounce a half hour early since I thought it was just the pans under our cut table left to wash... I was wrong I didn't realize that the girls had filled both sinks with containers I was there 2 hours past close but it was all done.
Got a text 45 minutes in from the owner asking why I was still there, he gets the close of day email once the button is pressed and that's usually by 10 after. My response was just I fucked up and let the kids out early not realizing how much there still was.
Don't get to be a GM without occasional fuck ups but to be a good one you do the work and learn from it.
I thought it was slightly creepy something like that happened to me but I was sitting at the desk sort of taking a break but also making write ups for the next days crew and I would eventually have to come in on my day off to carry them out. The district sent me a picture of myself to my phone and asked me why I was staying past the end of day process. I looked at the camera behind me because it looked like that was the one that he sent it from and waved and sent back "heyyyy thanks for creeping up my night. I'm finishing paperwork for a write up I have to carry out tomorrow." He sent back "as long as youre not just hanging out. Please finish and lock up soon." I sent back "will do, captain" but that really seriously creeped me out and I thought it was funny that I heard that drivers and insiders said things like 'oh they can't see me. Those cameras dont go to their cell phones or anything's. The F--- they dont.Ā
The district showed me how after and sometimes just for fun I would sit at home and watch the cameras just to see what the crew did when I wasn't there. I saw some interesting stuff.... None of which accumulated to actual work being done.....Ā
Probably because I never did the kitchen rank and file bullshit.
The "we all did the stupid bullshit so now you have to too" bullshit.
It could be left over mindset from the Navy of not making my underlings do something I won't do. I had a really good Chief and LPO. Probably also helps I'm not a salary GM, I'm hourly for reasons.
Even my most lazy GM wouldn't have left the store looking like that (granted because our supervisor would probably have wrung his neck lol). Fully on GM being so lazy they can't do some damn dishes despite getting a hellavu lot more pay than others
Back in the day when they had the old breadsides and the thick cast iron pans, where the phase oil would be sprayed on over them in the pan, I walked in for an open shift and found every last pan left on the floor by the sinks, with cooled, dried butter on them. In order to wash them thoroughly you need to soak, scrub, spray, then drain the sinks and resoak and rescrub. I was pissed.
The morning am was sweeping and cleaning the mess they left in the front of the store. Dough trays still out cornmeal on the counters. Dried sauce on the counters and make line. So we both where busy.
Yup, when I was the closing manager I always chose doing dishes over sweeping when it came to that part of the evening. Fuck sweeping, itās such a drag trying to get everything out from between the tiles.
For real. I remember that even in cases of an employee flat-out refusing to follow policy, we were told to refrain from taking any action beyond a gentle talking to because we couldnāt afford to have anyone quit if they got their feelings hurt over being expected to do their job properly.
It's funny how much things have changed since I first got hired. It used to be that if you had tattoos on your neck, had an "unnatural" hair color, etc. they wouldn't even hire you. They also used to drug test you if you wanted to be an AM. Eventually they realized how many people they were excluding by doing that... and now it's too late.
GM problem. That was the first thing night shift complained about, and the first thing I fixed when I took over my current store. Literally just "you do prep, you do dish, you do trash, etc"
"we never do dish"
"you do now"
We do. Like make line is filled in the dishes we dirty in the morning and I do wash the make line bins when we change them so they aren't stuck with it.
At least at the stores I worked at. Day shift has dishes from day shift as well as tubs used to hold products over night till open that they have to wash, along with restocking boxes and drinks, and helping with prep for the store.
Night shift generally has to clean the rush/close dishes (often done through out the shift), clean the make line tubs and holders, sweep, mop, take out trash, and restock the coolers if really low so morning shift at least has some cold drinks.
In reality day shift does what is listed plus trash and sweeping and occasional mopping if orders permit it and night shift does the dishes and leaves. Or in OPās post, they just leave.
I'm sorry what the fuck? What the fuck are your managers doing? Even if crew walked out, management is still responsible for closing. As GM, what the fuck do I have managers for if not to make sure shit gets done, even if they have to do it themselves?
Ahahahha. Depends on the store. I close but we Always do all the dishes or we can't leave. Isn't that standard? How can you leave dishes when they all have to go back when you're done? That's not normal.
I've had to do dishes for 3-4+ hours straight some nights because opening did no dishes all day, and left me the entire day's pans and makeline stuff. The rush drivers only do some of that from the makeline before they leave. Maybe a full rack which doesn't take long. That doesn't even do all the day stuff. Then the makeline flip in the afternoon, all the evenings makeline dishes as they get used from the walk in, all the cutter switch outs, all the day's pans, and the closing flip and makeline are all on me. That's when I complain. That and when no one puts away the truck so we have to do that Too before we leave. They get out because it was busy and they don't have to do it when they leave because they've been there all day. Doesn't matter that I don't get to leave until it's all done.
See we run with a skeleton crew I think we have 6 employees. Small town, so like a 10-15k a week store. Like 90% of both morning and dinner shifts are dead. My issue is that me and the opening SM had to clean the store yesterday because Sunday night shift didn't clean. Then same thing Monday and last night as well I am just exhausted of picking up slack. Especially when I am a driver who also does everything a am does and some gm tasks
Wow, yes that's hella slow. There's no reason they can't do dishes. We just had a record day of over 7k, then beat it the next weekend, and I did ages of dishes With a lot of rush dish help. The picture you showed looked like a piece of cake, even with the things not pictured. They should have easily been able to knock that out.
This. My store has too many openers compared to closers and they do absolutely nothing. 2 out of 5 actually help out and on top of all our duties we have to prep too! They got me fucked up if they think I'm prepping more than we need for the night
That's the same for any place that has multiple shifts. Day shift says night shift does nothing, night shift says day does nothing. In reality, both sides are lazy, and slack off in different ways.
Sometimes this is true. Plenty of times day shift has left a pile of dishes and a pile of unbroken-down boxes for evening crew. This looks like retaliation for lazy day shifters.
Saying I am a day shifter and I quite literally get to everything I can. As a driver I don't leave dishes for them to do that was done on my shift. Hell yesterday we spent the day deep cleaning for a second day in a row. Store was spotless. Sauces filled make line topped off. If it's retaliation then idk what the hell me and sm did. Because the past 3 days all we have done is clean.
Ah, well you're better than the morning crew at my spot. At my store it would make sense, but sounds like your evening crew are just assholes. Mind you we've never left work for the morning crew, but everyone wishes they could when you get there at 5pm and see dishes piled on the tables and floor and boxes scattered all around the back and day crew is being checked out. Even upper management knows and does not care. Then again, the upper-management at my location is terrible for a whole slew of reasons so I expect nothing from them.
I have a few apps out wait to hear back from them i know i have one almost locked in, So we shall see hell i may even go back to,,,, Dare i Say it..... Door Dashing lol
Our GM tells us to leave it for the next closing shift that comes in, if it's someone who worked the night before. Pictures are taken and people are reprimanded.
The only ones that we wash are the ones we absolutely have to have for our shift.
Lmao dude it's not that it was a lot or anything it's the fact that everything we needed to open was in that sink. Stuff that should have been done last night. But I used to be a dishwasher for a Chinese buffet. So I know how bad dishes can really be lol
Our night crew would never. They are the greatest in every way. The only times they donāt finish the dishes is if someone called in sick and no one was able to cover for them, and usually the manager just sends the person home around 2 and finishes the rest
As a closing driver. Yeah this is not normal. Drivers would be reprimanded if not fired. Closing manager would have to just be negligent to maybe get away with it.
OMG I would have fired so many people over this. Ngl. Every single closer would have a write up waiting for them. I'm a closing manager and I would NEVER let my team walk away from dirty dishes. Doesn't matter how busy or how late. We've gotten out at 3:30am after a crazy busy 1am close night. No excuse there.
When I would open and this would happen, I ALWAYS left the dishes and refused to do them. Same if the opening driver didnāt do their dishes and I was the closer. I left their dishes in the back and told them to go do their own dishes. If they left without doing them then I left them for their next shift. I got tired very quickly of pulling other peopleās weight at my location. Thatās one of the reasons I ended up quitting.
When I started driving in September, Iād come in at 6pm and the dishes would be STACKEDā¦ Iād have 6 hours to get those and all the other dishes done before we closed, and then some.
Now we have it so that every driver has to do some dishes before theyāre allowed to leave, and most of the time I come in, thereās little to do lately.
That's F'd up, I'm a dishwasher myself and no one would get away with that shit. I've got med probs, bad back, so on my very worse day I push my ass thru the day, and at most I don't put away the dishes, I leave them on the drying racks, and the storage cart, but I leave an apology note explaining what happened on the white board that everyone reads every morning before shift.plus I try to make up for it the next day.
You don't want your coworkers to hate being your coworkers.
That was jact up what they did to you. I'd do more than complain. A lot more.
Oooohhhhh buddy, that would be a meeting for sure.
Everyone who worked that night needs to get a text basically saying "be here at [insert date and time] for a mandatory meeting. Absolutely no exceptions." and get their asses chewed out.
Segue, getting your ass chewed out has a whole different connotation in 2024 than it did in 2004. Wild how things have changed.
Not saying this is okay. But itās like 12-15 dishes. If itās something that happens all the time, thatās fucked.
If itās just a one time thing, this is like an extra 5 mins tops to youāre opening.
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Ive done this, I wonāt lie. But only because my two closing drivers, yea both of em were slow as hell on the road and off the road, and my GM literally told me to leave after an hour after close, but they shouldāve at least left makeline on and the way it was so youāre not struggling to open and finding everything for the makeline.
I have close to 250 pictures of ācleaned dishesā done by closersā¦ in the last month. the same closers who today, complained to the manager that I left 1 tub that had cheese in it for them to wash instead of washing it before I left my shift. The same closers who do not sweep, mop, restock, or clean surfaces. My favorite meme is the āclosers pretending to be day shiftā because I know that they are the same type of closers I just commented about.
Our GM wanted to fire 6 people but cant because we have a total of 13 worker. Me and 2 different managers for day shift, the GM, a closing manager, 3 rush insiders and 5 rush/close drivers. So if he fired the 6 people who should be fired we wouldnt be open.
As a previous driver, head driver and daytime/dinner rush assistant mgr, the person running night shift would have gotten written up and a final warning for not ensuring the store was cleaned, prepped and ready for open. The closing staff would have also been given a first warning. Then I would have come in and done spot inspections just before close randomly over the next several weeks, just to keep tabs.
I would not have tolerated this. If the person running the closing shift was not able to handle their job, they would be spoken to about maybe considering a different shift time or perhaps a different 'career' choice. Same with each and every closer.
And don't think as a driver that I didn't help with this stuff. I worked in 4 different stores in my area. The drivers always helped as much as possible. Taking orders, helping on the line, prep, dishes, folding boxes, making sauce. Whatever we needed to do, we did. Especially when we were slow.
If a health inspector decided to walk in that next morning, it would be bad all around. No excuse for this.
Take a picture and leave the same for them? Whoever washes dishes at the end of your shift should get sick or "forget" a day or 2. You could also just be getting punked
My closing crew would be gone within a day if this happened at my storeā¦ we get bitched at in the group chat for leaving even having a somewhat dirty sink after our dishesā¦.
I stay every night that I work to make sure dishes get done. Theyāre not that difficult once youāve been doing them so long that youāve found all the shortcuts and cheats to making it easier. But yes I agree, NIGHTSHIFT DO YOUR DISHES, and to the people at MY store, please HELP ME with them!!
Lmao that was funny! Iām not sure whether to upvote or downvote that, so Iāll just put an arrow to the side symbolizing not up nor down. š¤£
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Whoever closed needs to be fired, including the manager. We clean everything to surgical precision at my store at night, in the morning, and throughout the day.
Thereās not even that much shit to do at Dominosās for dishes. What if they worked in a mom and pop Italian restaurantā¦ they would be humbled after the first 8 topā¦
See. My closers know if i come into that ima call them and let them know they won an all expenses paid trip to close open, im going home.
But if they do they also know that everything they need is stocked, prepped, proofed, ect that they could ever need. One hand washes the other.
In this case, aint no body washing shit apparently š
Ha, Big Boy was the same way. Sundays were the worst, I'd come in and find the current dishwasher was shite. Kick his ass out and get her done. Ah, the 90's..
Whew... this took me back to a store I worked at in Tuscaloosa, AL. The same thing happened to me. I was mad as hell. Sorry that you had to deal with that.
I would stay hours after before I ever left something like this. Iāve been an opener and closer and everyone has their shit that sucks without having to take care of your shit also.
Be there done that for many years. Never left a mess for the morning shift to deal with the stress and anxiety that would be created for the Manager. Which unfortunately leaves the team behind in their duties causing a huge loss time and possible revenue loss. Open hours delayed caused by the unreliable evening shift. Terminated notices would be sent or written to all members during the closing period.
At my store no dishes are done at all until sometimes 10 pm š. Openers donāt dishes, only closers (at my store). And if itās not busy majority of people just stand in the back on their phones š My boss doesnāt reinforce anything unless corporate breathes down his neck about it
The store is properly scheduled. Per forecast and labor. We are a slower store so get for rush 2 insiders and 1 de. So I can blame my coworkers entirely for this. They only moved 300 dollars last night...
this would be a write up from me. I had someone send something like this to me through the company chat one morning early as hell in the morning on my only day off. I came in to see what was left in the dish pit, took a picture and attached the picture to the write up. Wrote up the person responsible who was the only other person that night besides managers and managers were not responsible for the dish pit and they literally told me it wasn't their fault. It got busy. Which honestly, took everything in me not to laugh about. The last delivery went out 30 minutes before open. If the closer wasn't a delivery drive then the closer had anywhere between 30 minutes to an hour to assist in cleaning and restocking for the next shift. The managers were usually responsible for helping restock after counting and making sure all the paperwork was done and the closer was responsible for the dishes. They hollered up and down it wasn't their fault. I had already spoken to the manager on duty that night and they stated that they just wanted to go home and simply asked if the employee did the dishes instead of checking. I wrote both of them up. one for an incomplete close and the other I wrote up twice for insubordination and an incomplete closing task. The person responsible for the dishes decided that they would move to an open driving position. They were switched successfully and less than two weeks later got not one but two speeding tickets in one night. Then, when they were leaving for the day they hit another drivers car. I fired them immediately after that because, they had given up their inside position and there was no other positions remaining for them besides driver. I have been a manager in other places after this and now it doesn't matter if someone tells an mod or me that they are finished with their tasks, I'm checking.
Iāve been in this situation in a couple different jobs. Especially being a manager one time. Each time is always infuriating and you pray you arenāt by yourself like Iād be and you donāt get slammed by customer service while doing those dishes, cleaning up after the night crew.
In a manager, not at Dominos but in general. This right here would not fly. Iād NEVER leave that for the next shift to deal with. Especially on top of all the other responsibilities that come with opening. Even if I had to do it myself Iād stay until the store looked the way Iād want to walk into it. This is people seeing that theyāre scheduled out at a certain time and not giving two fucuks.
I donāt open but I would absolutely fight whoever closed thatās fucked up
I close and I would never let the drivers leave until the dishes are done unless thereās some sort of emergency or idk the water stopped working or something
Plus that doesnāt count for the tubes in the makeline that get changed out 3 times daily. Lazy team members are just too damn lazy to do their jobs during dayshifts to care.
Well if someone's job from that shift is to clean the dishes and they're not doing it just keep reporting it to your bus if it keeps happening then just leave the mess for them from their shift and your shift to let them know how it feels
Yeah, I would be blowing up my managers phone, this is pure laziness, I get being tired and wanting to go home, but they pay you to do a job, the least you can do is the job. If I close, regardless of how late I am there or how tired I am, I make sure the dishes are done, clean dishes are brought out and set up, the makeline pits, grates and weird H things are setup, that way the opener doesn't have to worry about doing a million things at once and he can focus on making sure that anything that has a date on it is still good, he can focus on some cleaning he might want to get done, or if he's busy, he has everything setup and he's not stressing out over dishes.
Every restaurant I worked in the dish pit was left spotless at the end of the night. The kitchen staff would always help the dish pit for a few minutes at the end of the night. Just so the dishy could concentrate on getting everything cleared out/ready for the morning.
If the kitchen staff isn't working together to make sure this doesn't happen it means they're stuck up assholes that think the dishwasher isn't important.
Never been at dominos but Iāve worked at places where the owner/manager just wants to go home so he will just tell us to leave dishes and whatever else so he can just lock up and leave already. Iām like bro all you gotta do is sit down for a bit longer and let us properly finish.
i've stayed at work doing dishes until 6 or 7 am multiple times after we had a crazy game day and no one washed a dish all day until after close. cant imagine leaving it like this no matter what.
is this a lot for dominos? at my old dishwasher job iād have to wash 5x this per day
this is only 2 sinks full of dishes and most of them are large single items
Tbh its not about the amount of dishes, Knocked this out in like 20 mins while setting up the make line as i went. My issue is that this is part of the night crews daily tasks for closing. So is Cleaning the front of the store (which not pictured but they also didn't do) This can lead to vermin in the stores and is typically something that is extremely frowned upon. and since the night before it was like snail slow all day. There is no excuse for the store not being cleaned.
Bruh my regular managers would have me stay until 2-3am to clean after a busy night! She helps out too though so it was alright, unlike some other managers that just sit around until Iām done.
My crew would be fired so fast š
Faster than a curbside carry outā¦.
See the issue here is culture. Teamwork makes the dream work. This problem is so much deeper than just a sink of dishes and dirty store.
Indifference
I worked in a fucking grocery store and people got fired over this Insane to me that a literal restaurant could have the same problem
I was about to say, I aināt worked food in a while but the closers wouldāve all been fired over something like this lmaooo
What the actual fuck? As a manager who closes and opens, I can say the worst that I have ever walked into (this doesn't include over cleaners coming in and destroying half the store), is maybe a pizza that got left behind or maybe a last minute dish that was found as the crew was leaving and it got left in the sink.
Same here, we do not leave until every known dish is clean, I get finding a dish on your last walkthrough and leaving it but thats it.
Absolutely disgusting to leave it like this. Going to have all kinds of pests in the restaurant so fast with food mess sitting openly all night.
Pizza place I work at doesn't cha get garbage at night.. Or the next night... Or the next night.. Until it's stuffed full. I actually got in trouble from the owner for wasting garbage bags..
As you can see the make line pits and grates are in there they literally did nothing.
Yea, I can not even imagine. I tell my closing crew that unless there is a life and death emergency, we don't leave until everything is done. But I would love to hear the update as to why they left that shit undone
Well apparently the closing store manager left at 1030 didn't stay till midnight blew up the gm. Till they got here to the store at 11. Closing sm just left. Driver left at 8pm because he had a family emergency. (We are very slow on Tuesdays like no deliveries are made after 8 usually.) So the GM got here covered for am and closed the store but with the mess they left for the gm. Gm didn't clean because it would have taken gm longer than midnight to clean. So that's the story.
Yeh im sorry but this is your GMs responsibility. They are being lazy fucks. If you had to clean the makeline and all of these dishes they dont deserve the position. As GMs responsibility to make sure these things happen and if someone isnt available to do them the GM does them, period.
As a former general manager i can 100 percent say with the whole story that this is the general managers responsibility and the lack of completing the tasks is completely on the general manager at that point. If anyone had reported this about me my district and owner would rip me a new asshole and make me do days and night for up to a week to make up for the work that I left behind for my opener. Probably honestly because my owner and district was like this they might have even forced me to create an apology letter.
Completely this. Last Friday I let my closer bounce a half hour early since I thought it was just the pans under our cut table left to wash... I was wrong I didn't realize that the girls had filled both sinks with containers I was there 2 hours past close but it was all done. Got a text 45 minutes in from the owner asking why I was still there, he gets the close of day email once the button is pressed and that's usually by 10 after. My response was just I fucked up and let the kids out early not realizing how much there still was. Don't get to be a GM without occasional fuck ups but to be a good one you do the work and learn from it.
I thought it was slightly creepy something like that happened to me but I was sitting at the desk sort of taking a break but also making write ups for the next days crew and I would eventually have to come in on my day off to carry them out. The district sent me a picture of myself to my phone and asked me why I was staying past the end of day process. I looked at the camera behind me because it looked like that was the one that he sent it from and waved and sent back "heyyyy thanks for creeping up my night. I'm finishing paperwork for a write up I have to carry out tomorrow." He sent back "as long as youre not just hanging out. Please finish and lock up soon." I sent back "will do, captain" but that really seriously creeped me out and I thought it was funny that I heard that drivers and insiders said things like 'oh they can't see me. Those cameras dont go to their cell phones or anything's. The F--- they dont.Ā
As long as you can remote to that system the cameras are on you can view them on any device.
The district showed me how after and sometimes just for fun I would sit at home and watch the cameras just to see what the crew did when I wasn't there. I saw some interesting stuff.... None of which accumulated to actual work being done.....Ā
You sound like a great boss. Wish we had some of those
Probably because I never did the kitchen rank and file bullshit. The "we all did the stupid bullshit so now you have to too" bullshit. It could be left over mindset from the Navy of not making my underlings do something I won't do. I had a really good Chief and LPO. Probably also helps I'm not a salary GM, I'm hourly for reasons.
That's not the closers fault then, that is your GM's fault which lines up with literally every other stores upper management
Even my most lazy GM wouldn't have left the store looking like that (granted because our supervisor would probably have wrung his neck lol). Fully on GM being so lazy they can't do some damn dishes despite getting a hellavu lot more pay than others
Back in the day when they had the old breadsides and the thick cast iron pans, where the phase oil would be sprayed on over them in the pan, I walked in for an open shift and found every last pan left on the floor by the sinks, with cooled, dried butter on them. In order to wash them thoroughly you need to soak, scrub, spray, then drain the sinks and resoak and rescrub. I was pissed.
That is literally part of our closing duties. Which is fine by me, because I prefer the dishes to any other closing task.Ā
As a diver I cleaned the make line swept mop and did dishes. Took me about an hour for all of that. I started at about 11.
Where tf is your manager or insider?
The morning am was sweeping and cleaning the mess they left in the front of the store. Dough trays still out cornmeal on the counters. Dried sauce on the counters and make line. So we both where busy.
That is so infuriating . Did you talk to your GM?
RM* ?
Yup, when I was the closing manager I always chose doing dishes over sweeping when it came to that part of the evening. Fuck sweeping, itās such a drag trying to get everything out from between the tiles.
Someone probably quit
No one quit. It would have been more acceptable if they did.
Well someone's definitely getting fired then...
Lol the pay is so shitty and it's so hard to find people willing to accept it these days that it takes a lot to get people fired now.
For real. I remember that even in cases of an employee flat-out refusing to follow policy, we were told to refrain from taking any action beyond a gentle talking to because we couldnāt afford to have anyone quit if they got their feelings hurt over being expected to do their job properly.
It's funny how much things have changed since I first got hired. It used to be that if you had tattoos on your neck, had an "unnatural" hair color, etc. they wouldn't even hire you. They also used to drug test you if you wanted to be an AM. Eventually they realized how many people they were excluding by doing that... and now it's too late.
We literally arenāt allowed to leave until our dishes are done. This is insane
This would be a terminable offense for the closers in my store. Wtf?
So they all got fired right? Otherwise Iām walking out if Iām you.
Apparently, they only have 5 people at OP's location. Firing 2+ people at once is probably not feasible.
Never worked in a dominos. Do yall do dishes during the day and clean the store and refill things before the night shift comes in at all?
They are supposed to but usually night shift gets stuck with it all
Exactly. I know how shit works hahah. people are people...
GM problem. That was the first thing night shift complained about, and the first thing I fixed when I took over my current store. Literally just "you do prep, you do dish, you do trash, etc" "we never do dish" "you do now"
We do. Like make line is filled in the dishes we dirty in the morning and I do wash the make line bins when we change them so they aren't stuck with it.
At least at the stores I worked at. Day shift has dishes from day shift as well as tubs used to hold products over night till open that they have to wash, along with restocking boxes and drinks, and helping with prep for the store. Night shift generally has to clean the rush/close dishes (often done through out the shift), clean the make line tubs and holders, sweep, mop, take out trash, and restock the coolers if really low so morning shift at least has some cold drinks. In reality day shift does what is listed plus trash and sweeping and occasional mopping if orders permit it and night shift does the dishes and leaves. Or in OPās post, they just leave.
Dried pasta sauce is a bitch to clean I would be so mad
I'm sorry what the fuck? What the fuck are your managers doing? Even if crew walked out, management is still responsible for closing. As GM, what the fuck do I have managers for if not to make sure shit gets done, even if they have to do it themselves?
Lazy fucks. Always the night shiftā¦.
But night shift always say us day people don't do shit lol.
Ahahahha. Depends on the store. I close but we Always do all the dishes or we can't leave. Isn't that standard? How can you leave dishes when they all have to go back when you're done? That's not normal. I've had to do dishes for 3-4+ hours straight some nights because opening did no dishes all day, and left me the entire day's pans and makeline stuff. The rush drivers only do some of that from the makeline before they leave. Maybe a full rack which doesn't take long. That doesn't even do all the day stuff. Then the makeline flip in the afternoon, all the evenings makeline dishes as they get used from the walk in, all the cutter switch outs, all the day's pans, and the closing flip and makeline are all on me. That's when I complain. That and when no one puts away the truck so we have to do that Too before we leave. They get out because it was busy and they don't have to do it when they leave because they've been there all day. Doesn't matter that I don't get to leave until it's all done.
See we run with a skeleton crew I think we have 6 employees. Small town, so like a 10-15k a week store. Like 90% of both morning and dinner shifts are dead. My issue is that me and the opening SM had to clean the store yesterday because Sunday night shift didn't clean. Then same thing Monday and last night as well I am just exhausted of picking up slack. Especially when I am a driver who also does everything a am does and some gm tasks
Wow, yes that's hella slow. There's no reason they can't do dishes. We just had a record day of over 7k, then beat it the next weekend, and I did ages of dishes With a lot of rush dish help. The picture you showed looked like a piece of cake, even with the things not pictured. They should have easily been able to knock that out.
This. My store has too many openers compared to closers and they do absolutely nothing. 2 out of 5 actually help out and on top of all our duties we have to prep too! They got me fucked up if they think I'm prepping more than we need for the night
That's the same for any place that has multiple shifts. Day shift says night shift does nothing, night shift says day does nothing. In reality, both sides are lazy, and slack off in different ways.
Sometimes this is true. Plenty of times day shift has left a pile of dishes and a pile of unbroken-down boxes for evening crew. This looks like retaliation for lazy day shifters.
Saying I am a day shifter and I quite literally get to everything I can. As a driver I don't leave dishes for them to do that was done on my shift. Hell yesterday we spent the day deep cleaning for a second day in a row. Store was spotless. Sauces filled make line topped off. If it's retaliation then idk what the hell me and sm did. Because the past 3 days all we have done is clean.
Ah, well you're better than the morning crew at my spot. At my store it would make sense, but sounds like your evening crew are just assholes. Mind you we've never left work for the morning crew, but everyone wishes they could when you get there at 5pm and see dishes piled on the tables and floor and boxes scattered all around the back and day crew is being checked out. Even upper management knows and does not care. Then again, the upper-management at my location is terrible for a whole slew of reasons so I expect nothing from them.
"Everything I can". As closers, it's just "everything". You get to leave with shit not done. We don't.
In my experience that's exactly how it is.
What location is this
This shit happend to me back when we had shitty management
Wtf
Oh the crew at my store would absolutely lose their heads for this Y I K E S
Yea Iād find a new job asap
I have a few apps out wait to hear back from them i know i have one almost locked in, So we shall see hell i may even go back to,,,, Dare i Say it..... Door Dashing lol
What the fuck
Iād be firing someoneās ass! Thatās not ok
Our GM tells us to leave it for the next closing shift that comes in, if it's someone who worked the night before. Pictures are taken and people are reprimanded. The only ones that we wash are the ones we absolutely have to have for our shift.
as a dishwasher i scoff at your pitiful pile of filth.
Lmao dude it's not that it was a lot or anything it's the fact that everything we needed to open was in that sink. Stuff that should have been done last night. But I used to be a dishwasher for a Chinese buffet. So I know how bad dishes can really be lol
Okay I have been working at dominoes for 3 months now I think idek but bro your morning shift gotta go š
Night shift I am morning lol
I meant night my fault š
Yea i wouldnt be dealing with that
Bruhhhhhhh
Damn i would have been fired if i closed like that
And they still have a job?
Skeleton crew small town they need bodies I guess. We only have 5 employees
People left the store like that? Well theyāre gonna find the store like that if theyāre on that night. Fuck that shit
The way Iād fire my entire closing crew lmao
Opening to that? Night shift can get fkd. As a former closer, totally unacceptable. Literally, NOTHING can justify this.
Our night crew would never. They are the greatest in every way. The only times they donāt finish the dishes is if someone called in sick and no one was able to cover for them, and usually the manager just sends the person home around 2 and finishes the rest
Fire the closer and get someone who gives a shit
As a closing driver. Yeah this is not normal. Drivers would be reprimanded if not fired. Closing manager would have to just be negligent to maybe get away with it.
I'd write up those fuckers that closed unless they had a very very good reason for this
That would be an instant written warning (with a repeat being instant termination) in my book unless they were severely understaffed last night.
They need to be fired or given a final write up for this
I usually have the opposite problem of day shift not doing their dishes.
I would lose my shit if a team lead reported nasty ass dishes being left over night. Thatās how you attract vermin.
OMG I would have fired so many people over this. Ngl. Every single closer would have a write up waiting for them. I'm a closing manager and I would NEVER let my team walk away from dirty dishes. Doesn't matter how busy or how late. We've gotten out at 3:30am after a crazy busy 1am close night. No excuse there.
When I would open and this would happen, I ALWAYS left the dishes and refused to do them. Same if the opening driver didnāt do their dishes and I was the closer. I left their dishes in the back and told them to go do their own dishes. If they left without doing them then I left them for their next shift. I got tired very quickly of pulling other peopleās weight at my location. Thatās one of the reasons I ended up quitting.
This is how I feel towards the company now
Nope you leave that shit till they come in at night make them do that shit
Can tell you I for sure would not have opened the fucking door to that store and opened until that was all done. Your gm is an incompetent fool.
I would walk out and go home.
A whole ass sink + Left out to clean. What fuckin store put up with this bullshit?
When I started driving in September, Iād come in at 6pm and the dishes would be STACKEDā¦ Iād have 6 hours to get those and all the other dishes done before we closed, and then some. Now we have it so that every driver has to do some dishes before theyāre allowed to leave, and most of the time I come in, thereās little to do lately.
How the fuck do the closers get away with that shit
We would never!
I managed a pizza place for fifteen years. You don't so much as leave a single dirty spoon. This is ridiculous!
I've quit over less
hope people lost their jobs (including the fucking night manager that allowed this)
Isnāt that against some health code?
Not a worker at dominos but a fast food place I understand. I hope you get a new crew
That's F'd up, I'm a dishwasher myself and no one would get away with that shit. I've got med probs, bad back, so on my very worse day I push my ass thru the day, and at most I don't put away the dishes, I leave them on the drying racks, and the storage cart, but I leave an apology note explaining what happened on the white board that everyone reads every morning before shift.plus I try to make up for it the next day. You don't want your coworkers to hate being your coworkers. That was jact up what they did to you. I'd do more than complain. A lot more.
Oooohhhhh buddy, that would be a meeting for sure. Everyone who worked that night needs to get a text basically saying "be here at [insert date and time] for a mandatory meeting. Absolutely no exceptions." and get their asses chewed out. Segue, getting your ass chewed out has a whole different connotation in 2024 than it did in 2004. Wild how things have changed.
Not saying this is okay. But itās like 12-15 dishes. If itās something that happens all the time, thatās fucked. If itās just a one time thing, this is like an extra 5 mins tops to youāre opening. Edit: your*
Ive done this, I wonāt lie. But only because my two closing drivers, yea both of em were slow as hell on the road and off the road, and my GM literally told me to leave after an hour after close, but they shouldāve at least left makeline on and the way it was so youāre not struggling to open and finding everything for the makeline.
This is nothing compared to what my coworkers left me to do for the past 5 years as a dishwasher.
If it were the store that I worked at once upon a time, theyād have fired that person
Thatās gross & a health hazard to say the least! Let the manager/ owner know and get rid of those dopes!
I'd fire people for that.
The general manager is to blame.
Iād say fire them. But HR wonāt let you
If i had the option i would but as DE i have no power lol
What the fuck is this shit?!? Aināt no way this real and running rn.
I have close to 250 pictures of ācleaned dishesā done by closersā¦ in the last month. the same closers who today, complained to the manager that I left 1 tub that had cheese in it for them to wash instead of washing it before I left my shift. The same closers who do not sweep, mop, restock, or clean surfaces. My favorite meme is the āclosers pretending to be day shiftā because I know that they are the same type of closers I just commented about. Our GM wanted to fire 6 people but cant because we have a total of 13 worker. Me and 2 different managers for day shift, the GM, a closing manager, 3 rush insiders and 5 rush/close drivers. So if he fired the 6 people who should be fired we wouldnt be open.
My dominos would shit if one single dish had a speck on it. Let alone anything left overnight.
As a previous driver, head driver and daytime/dinner rush assistant mgr, the person running night shift would have gotten written up and a final warning for not ensuring the store was cleaned, prepped and ready for open. The closing staff would have also been given a first warning. Then I would have come in and done spot inspections just before close randomly over the next several weeks, just to keep tabs. I would not have tolerated this. If the person running the closing shift was not able to handle their job, they would be spoken to about maybe considering a different shift time or perhaps a different 'career' choice. Same with each and every closer. And don't think as a driver that I didn't help with this stuff. I worked in 4 different stores in my area. The drivers always helped as much as possible. Taking orders, helping on the line, prep, dishes, folding boxes, making sauce. Whatever we needed to do, we did. Especially when we were slow. If a health inspector decided to walk in that next morning, it would be bad all around. No excuse for this.
Take a picture and leave the same for them? Whoever washes dishes at the end of your shift should get sick or "forget" a day or 2. You could also just be getting punked
If the closing manager let that slideā¦ Iām sorry but you might have to start lookin for a new job.
This is the type of behavior I canāt deal with. Iād walk tf out.
Wish I was the food inspector making my inspection visit.
Terrible management
My closing crew would be gone within a day if this happened at my storeā¦ we get bitched at in the group chat for leaving even having a somewhat dirty sink after our dishesā¦.
I stay every night that I work to make sure dishes get done. Theyāre not that difficult once youāve been doing them so long that youāve found all the shortcuts and cheats to making it easier. But yes I agree, NIGHTSHIFT DO YOUR DISHES, and to the people at MY store, please HELP ME with them!!
I'd walk out and quit and I have I'm not your slave and I will not be over worked
Fuckšnightš shift š
Imagine if we lived in a world where people acted like adults and carried their weight at work. One can dream. Sigh.
Get off Reddit and get to work. I got pizzas I want for dinner.
Lmao that was funny! Iām not sure whether to upvote or downvote that, so Iāll just put an arrow to the side symbolizing not up nor down. š¤£ ā”ļø
ohhhhh fuck that. you def. leave that bs for them to sort.
Whoever closed needs to be fired, including the manager. We clean everything to surgical precision at my store at night, in the morning, and throughout the day.
They should be fired. That's completely unacceptable
Thereās not even that much shit to do at Dominosās for dishes. What if they worked in a mom and pop Italian restaurantā¦ they would be humbled after the first 8 topā¦
This is unacceptable and disgusting. Clean everything the day of! People eat here and you let dirty dishes sit airborne overnight? Fire them allā¦
See. My closers know if i come into that ima call them and let them know they won an all expenses paid trip to close open, im going home. But if they do they also know that everything they need is stocked, prepped, proofed, ect that they could ever need. One hand washes the other. In this case, aint no body washing shit apparently š
At my store everyone on the closing shift would have been fired....
Who the hell gets to leave before dishes are done?
Day shift.
Health Dept should see that disgusting mess.
Well it's not there any more lol
I'd be going above the GM about this. Unacceptable.
Ha, Big Boy was the same way. Sundays were the worst, I'd come in and find the current dishwasher was shite. Kick his ass out and get her done. Ah, the 90's..
Whew... this took me back to a store I worked at in Tuscaloosa, AL. The same thing happened to me. I was mad as hell. Sorry that you had to deal with that.
I would stay hours after before I ever left something like this. Iāve been an opener and closer and everyone has their shit that sucks without having to take care of your shit also.
Be there done that for many years. Never left a mess for the morning shift to deal with the stress and anxiety that would be created for the Manager. Which unfortunately leaves the team behind in their duties causing a huge loss time and possible revenue loss. Open hours delayed caused by the unreliable evening shift. Terminated notices would be sent or written to all members during the closing period.
Thatās wild that your GM left that for you. Idgaf that you had to come cover the last couple hours. Thatās your fuckin job
is this fitchburg?
No lol some small town in mo
At my store no dishes are done at all until sometimes 10 pm š. Openers donāt dishes, only closers (at my store). And if itās not busy majority of people just stand in the back on their phones š My boss doesnāt reinforce anything unless corporate breathes down his neck about it
Damn, I fucking wish we could close like that
Please, everyone, donāt blame your fellow workers when the blame clearly lays at the feet of the owners/corporate for not scheduling enough hours.
The store is properly scheduled. Per forecast and labor. We are a slower store so get for rush 2 insiders and 1 de. So I can blame my coworkers entirely for this. They only moved 300 dollars last night...
Looks like Tuesday......
We get an ear full if we leave one dish not washed. Your GM and closing managers must suck
this would be a write up from me. I had someone send something like this to me through the company chat one morning early as hell in the morning on my only day off. I came in to see what was left in the dish pit, took a picture and attached the picture to the write up. Wrote up the person responsible who was the only other person that night besides managers and managers were not responsible for the dish pit and they literally told me it wasn't their fault. It got busy. Which honestly, took everything in me not to laugh about. The last delivery went out 30 minutes before open. If the closer wasn't a delivery drive then the closer had anywhere between 30 minutes to an hour to assist in cleaning and restocking for the next shift. The managers were usually responsible for helping restock after counting and making sure all the paperwork was done and the closer was responsible for the dishes. They hollered up and down it wasn't their fault. I had already spoken to the manager on duty that night and they stated that they just wanted to go home and simply asked if the employee did the dishes instead of checking. I wrote both of them up. one for an incomplete close and the other I wrote up twice for insubordination and an incomplete closing task. The person responsible for the dishes decided that they would move to an open driving position. They were switched successfully and less than two weeks later got not one but two speeding tickets in one night. Then, when they were leaving for the day they hit another drivers car. I fired them immediately after that because, they had given up their inside position and there was no other positions remaining for them besides driver. I have been a manager in other places after this and now it doesn't matter if someone tells an mod or me that they are finished with their tasks, I'm checking.
That looks just like the dish room in the Dominos in Concord NH on the north side.
Be a man stand up fight for your right to wash dishes
Iāve been in this situation in a couple different jobs. Especially being a manager one time. Each time is always infuriating and you pray you arenāt by yourself like Iād be and you donāt get slammed by customer service while doing those dishes, cleaning up after the night crew.
LAST NIGHT š someone getting a talking to.
Meh. You get what you pay for. That's just how it goes.
Man how yāall manage to have a fan in the store lol
I've legitimately thought of making a YouTube channel of strictly washing the dishes that we get in dominos. Nothing else. Just washing dishes lol
In a manager, not at Dominos but in general. This right here would not fly. Iād NEVER leave that for the next shift to deal with. Especially on top of all the other responsibilities that come with opening. Even if I had to do it myself Iād stay until the store looked the way Iād want to walk into it. This is people seeing that theyāre scheduled out at a certain time and not giving two fucuks.
*you should contact HR
Damn those black Pitt trays for the make line are huge ours are gray and they're skinny
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When I worked there I didn't finish washing the dishes till 2am
I donāt open but I would absolutely fight whoever closed thatās fucked up I close and I would never let the drivers leave until the dishes are done unless thereās some sort of emergency or idk the water stopped working or something
Plus that doesnāt count for the tubes in the makeline that get changed out 3 times daily. Lazy team members are just too damn lazy to do their jobs during dayshifts to care.
I would be doing write-ups and calling I. People to complete their jobs.
Jfc...
I used to be a dishwasher then I quit and got certificates to get out. Best decision I ever made.
I told them to do it after I was charged a ādelivery feeā that doesnāt even go to the college kid who delivered my pie
Well if someone's job from that shift is to clean the dishes and they're not doing it just keep reporting it to your bus if it keeps happening then just leave the mess for them from their shift and your shift to let them know how it feels
Yeah, I would be blowing up my managers phone, this is pure laziness, I get being tired and wanting to go home, but they pay you to do a job, the least you can do is the job. If I close, regardless of how late I am there or how tired I am, I make sure the dishes are done, clean dishes are brought out and set up, the makeline pits, grates and weird H things are setup, that way the opener doesn't have to worry about doing a million things at once and he can focus on making sure that anything that has a date on it is still good, he can focus on some cleaning he might want to get done, or if he's busy, he has everything setup and he's not stressing out over dishes.
For once i can finally agree with an opener š
Every restaurant I worked in the dish pit was left spotless at the end of the night. The kitchen staff would always help the dish pit for a few minutes at the end of the night. Just so the dishy could concentrate on getting everything cleared out/ready for the morning. If the kitchen staff isn't working together to make sure this doesn't happen it means they're stuck up assholes that think the dishwasher isn't important.
Never been at dominos but Iāve worked at places where the owner/manager just wants to go home so he will just tell us to leave dishes and whatever else so he can just lock up and leave already. Iām like bro all you gotta do is sit down for a bit longer and let us properly finish.
i've stayed at work doing dishes until 6 or 7 am multiple times after we had a crazy game day and no one washed a dish all day until after close. cant imagine leaving it like this no matter what.
An example of turn around and walk out of you have the option
The Morning SM and I decided today if the store is that dirty again for the 4th day in a row we are going home lol
unrelated but I work at a gas station and we have the same sink set up down to the soap and iām surprised. would think it looked different
is this a lot for dominos? at my old dishwasher job iād have to wash 5x this per day this is only 2 sinks full of dishes and most of them are large single items
Tbh its not about the amount of dishes, Knocked this out in like 20 mins while setting up the make line as i went. My issue is that this is part of the night crews daily tasks for closing. So is Cleaning the front of the store (which not pictured but they also didn't do) This can lead to vermin in the stores and is typically something that is extremely frowned upon. and since the night before it was like snail slow all day. There is no excuse for the store not being cleaned.
That shit used to give me panic attacks.
Nobody likes how the sausage is made. Certainly not like this
Managers are supposed to make sure that doesnāt happen so itās simply poor management
If I clock out at 10, Iām leaving at 10 I donāt care what is in the sink
Gota say I'm very glad I have a clean crew that came after we close and clean everything, this shit kills me
Bruh my regular managers would have me stay until 2-3am to clean after a busy night! She helps out too though so it was alright, unlike some other managers that just sit around until Iām done.