For me? The fact that if I wanted to dishwash for an hour I would’ve just applied at a restaurant to wash dishes. I have no issue washing dishes but knowing the shift before me left all of that for one person makes me feel disrespected honestly. We are not a team and I don’t wanna pretend to be a team player in this situation.

I get the sentiment but sweating on bar is the only reason I haven’t quit yet. It’s the best part of the job for me

same! i love CS

when i get put on CS i’m like “thank godddd i get a bit of a break from people” while fixing the things that make customers leave poor reviews (i.e. stock bathrooms, sweep lobby)

but i also have kinda funky opinions because i would MUCH rather do floors/mats than DTO/DTR

At my store, I’m always CS because everyone thinks the only position is bar. And no one knows how to do preclose like it’s hard task.
I am one of the veterans, I love it and don’t have to anyone if I don’t want to😂

CS was my respite after dealing with fools in DT. I loved DT hot bar, but if I was having a crap shift, I’d wrangle with some dishes to at least make my anger productive.

The same people downvoting are the ones who treat the CS person like their personal servant so I don’t care. My coworkers are mostly assholes who leave dirty work for others regularly. I go out of my way to be respectful for the next shift but rarely get it in return

I get what you’re saying but at least at my old store, I do think the morning crew would have had time to at least put a dent in some of the dishes. I’m not expecting all dishes to be done and everything perfect, and yes I know some days/shifts are exceptionally challenging where I would understand a dish pile like this. But it being a regular and repeated occurrence, with absolutely no backups done and nothing cleaned, just isn’t okay to me.

To me, if no dishes can get done I’d think at least some backups or restocking would be done but that wasn’t the case. I don’t like to think of it as openers vs closers, I see it as we’re all a team working together, and I try to be as understanding and accommodating as possible. But when I’d come into close and there’s this mountain of dishes, no restocking/backups done, trashes are past full, and everyone is clocking out so it’s down to literally 3 partners total (including myself) and openers just run out the door without even updating me on where we’re at with everything, I just don’t feel like that’s a team working together.

I don’t really blame the morning team though as much as I blame scheduling not being done properly to have enough partners in the afternoon so that we can actually catch up. Also, the 30 mins after close is nothing if we’re this far behind. 30 mins is basically to do the last cleaning tasks of the night, it doesn’t leave any space to also catch up.

A normal Sunday at my old store involved me coming in at 1pm, the whole morning crew leaving as I clocked in, so now it’s me and 2 baristas for the rest of the day, along with a mountain of dishes, no extra whipped cream/frap roast/mocha/sweet cream, ice bins need to be refilled, several trash runs are needed, floors aren’t done, bathrooms are a mess, cold brew kegs need to be made, warming and bar needs help, and the Sunday SSV count and pull needs to be done. It was like pulling teeth trying to catch up as well as get everything perfectly clean and restocked the way openers expect. It’s a lot for us all, but it’s my personal belief that I have to somehow setup a handoff, and if I can’t do it all I’ll at least make some backups *or* do some dishes

This shit always happens, 8-10 person peak play and still leave dishes in all 3 sinks dirty nothing made and you gotta play catch up