Working Weekend (the long type)
First of all- sorry I've not updated the blog for a while. Not a huge amount has really happened till I started at Sunshine, and since then I've been a little busy. But I'll tell you what I've been doing anyway.
I seem to remember working on Thursday morning, and definately worked both days of the weekend. There was a large festival at the Caribou Lodge called Winterstart, which is a cross-country running event attended mostly by people from metropolitan Alberta. So although Saturday was a pretty easy day, especially since I had a washer-helper and spent most of the time doing food prep, Sunday morning we got slammed.
~400 hungry athletes decided to stock up on porridge and cinamon for starters (which is a nightmare to clean!), egg and meat and PLENTY of coffee, at exactly the same time. The fact that I'd had an hour's lie in, thanks to daylight savings, didn't really help me, unlike the Busser who was drafted in to clear the backlog when I started drowning in greasy water and ketchup.
Because Sunday was a brunch, there was no opportunity to eat (although I got a bowl of broccoli soup), so I saved up a big plate of all sorts of stuff and left it on the heated line, but it very sadly went black before I could tuck in... Ah well. I finally finished at 4:30 (10 hour shift), feeling knackered and sticky but strangely satisfied. Especially since I wasn't working the evening shift too.
Monday evening was my first evening shift, and I went in at 5:00 to find a nice large pile of stained stainless steel wanting attention, and a whole host of waiters and kitchen staff (and even music!) that I didn't recognise. But I was soon back in the rhythm, at least until 10:00 when the heated preparation line started being taken down. and the kitchen started being cleaned at the end of the day.
12:30 I went home. And this was a particularly quiet day... If I need to be up at 6:00 to get to Sunshine, I'm going to need to structure my week particularly well if I'm going to be able to hold down both jobs. I think that I'll try and postpone my employment at The Keg until I'm back living in downtown Banff, because the last thing I want to do in the wee hours, when I'm exhausted and not concentrating and it's freezing cold and icy outside, is try and confront a large truck which can't really see me.
I seem to remember working on Thursday morning, and definately worked both days of the weekend. There was a large festival at the Caribou Lodge called Winterstart, which is a cross-country running event attended mostly by people from metropolitan Alberta. So although Saturday was a pretty easy day, especially since I had a washer-helper and spent most of the time doing food prep, Sunday morning we got slammed.
~400 hungry athletes decided to stock up on porridge and cinamon for starters (which is a nightmare to clean!), egg and meat and PLENTY of coffee, at exactly the same time. The fact that I'd had an hour's lie in, thanks to daylight savings, didn't really help me, unlike the Busser who was drafted in to clear the backlog when I started drowning in greasy water and ketchup.
Because Sunday was a brunch, there was no opportunity to eat (although I got a bowl of broccoli soup), so I saved up a big plate of all sorts of stuff and left it on the heated line, but it very sadly went black before I could tuck in... Ah well. I finally finished at 4:30 (10 hour shift), feeling knackered and sticky but strangely satisfied. Especially since I wasn't working the evening shift too.
Monday evening was my first evening shift, and I went in at 5:00 to find a nice large pile of stained stainless steel wanting attention, and a whole host of waiters and kitchen staff (and even music!) that I didn't recognise. But I was soon back in the rhythm, at least until 10:00 when the heated preparation line started being taken down. and the kitchen started being cleaned at the end of the day.
12:30 I went home. And this was a particularly quiet day... If I need to be up at 6:00 to get to Sunshine, I'm going to need to structure my week particularly well if I'm going to be able to hold down both jobs. I think that I'll try and postpone my employment at The Keg until I'm back living in downtown Banff, because the last thing I want to do in the wee hours, when I'm exhausted and not concentrating and it's freezing cold and icy outside, is try and confront a large truck which can't really see me.
posted by Colin at
4:33 pm
3 Comments:
You poor old sweaty kitchen slave you!! My concern about your mental health came to a peak when when you wrote how you felt "strangely satisfied" after a ten hours slog!!!
Seriously, I think your comment about long late shifts, early starts and cold, dangerous travel in between is very sensible. You don't wanna do that!
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Anonymous, At
9 November 2007 at 05:48
Wow! I was thinking that I wouldn't get another post on the blog! I have been checking every day and now I log on and get 3!
Good about your shifts, nothing like a bit of money to help your spirits to rise eh ;)
have a good time, im going to read your other posts now
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Anonymous, At
9 November 2007 at 10:25
I don,t know whether you got my previous comments as I didn,t sign in with google. Anyway lovely to read you news, especially as now it is not all food shopping and making the money go round!! It is obviously coming to more interesting times for you so I hope there will be plenty of snow so you can teach and also enjy the skiing yourself. Lots of love G'ma
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9 November 2007 at 14:46
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