Serving Up Raises
First kitchen I worked in, they told me the more jobs I learned, the more I’d get paid (came in basically knowing all of it anyway).
6 months later I had learned every job there except 1 spot. They told me if I learned that spot, I’d get a raise. I told them I could find a new kitchen as I was easily one of the best employees there, and that I was told the more I learned the more id get paid, and I still hadn’t been given a raise.
Head Chef cracked and gave me a raise. I told him 50 cents wasn’t enough. He was forced to give me another.
2 weeks after that, they fired the banquet chef’s assistant (we had a lot of 300+ people events) and told him to pick his new assistant, he immediately requested me.
I told them I needed another raise, I was told no again, again I said I’ll find a new job, came in the next day and put my 2 weeks in (yup, found a job that quick) Wound up making more money in that kitchen than anyone beside the banquet chef and the head chef.
That’s how I wound up getting 3 raises in a month.
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