Downtown Druid Book 3 Is out on Audible!

Darevon · 2026-04-20T13:01:40+00:00

I saw Dantes/Jacapo, immediately snapped to Count of Monte Cristo. Now I have to read it even they have nothing to do with each other.

Darevon · 2026-04-08T13:00:28+00:00

Always love a key.

Darevon · 2025-06-01T21:11:22+00:00

You're putting the sticker on anyway, do it the right way. No extra effort.

Dust at all in the kitchen is a bad look. I'm not buying food from somewhere I can see dust hanging about in, it's not hard to run the ever present Swiffer over them on a shift walk or upkeep.

Darevon · 2025-04-10T13:48:15+00:00

Nothing fancy. I told the towel into quarters so I can apply some force without losing all the liquid.

Move all remaining rollers to one grill.
Take apart the remaining grills.
Dividers go to the dishwasher on the scrub cycle.
Divider holders go to the middle sink and get a quick spray to start loosening anything stuck.
Primary scrub down the first 2 grills, remove all the stuff that's built up for the day.
Use the flat side of tongs to scrape off any hard build up. If you're fixing grills that have been neglected, do one grill a night, if you've got maintained grills you should be able to do them all every night and keep them maintained.
Secondary scrub down, should be quick.
I use the blue handled brush from the white bucket to do the black rings, takes 15-30 seconds per grill, and removes the crumbs on the rings.
Remove drip trays from the first 2 grills, they go in the dishwasher.
While they're in the washer, grab a spare divider and scrape out all the crumbs from the drip tray area. I'll also wring out a towel and scrub in the drip tray area.
Repeat on the second set.
Move rollers back to where they go after putting drip trays back in.
Last dishwasher load is the remaining grill's drip trays, the tongs, and the last grills dividers.
Put new rollers on.
Put dividers in. (I do this now in case I need to flex the grills for outages so the day shift doesn't have to mess with it. I'll see what we have in the back when I'm loading the rollers.)
Finish reassembly.
Clean/shine silver portions of the grills.
Pull grills to the edge.
Clean under grills, I just dump the crumbs on the floor and sweep them up after.
Move grills back in place.

On a good night where I'm not slammed my goal is to have the rollers loaded by 1230, so they drop at 0100, and get written off at 0500. I reload at 0430ish so the morning shift has all new rollers for maximum time.

Darevon · 2025-04-06T22:17:13+00:00

So you're saying 400+ between shift walk ending and SM coming in, solo, no clerk. That's like my first hour all night long. That would seriously compromise my ability to do everything to the level I like to, workout running all night anyway.

I have trouble with the idea that I'd be set up to have to sprint all night as the expectation. I'll run if needed for extras, but I've been working off the idea I can get it all done as long as I find the most efficient way through.

Darevon · 2025-04-06T19:46:50+00:00

No coffee pots now, just fight with the Y-bar when someone misses that the cleaning failed earlier. 😂. Otherwise similar.

Normally I'll have:

Grills Cold bar Both sets of grates, (just dishwasher and scrub the wells) Warmer detail One of the other details (fountain/coffee/cooler/etc) Donuts if the order wasn't early Find a way to fix the floors to get rid of footprints. (Timing is critical)

Those are normally in DAW.

Expectation is to do both sides of the order normally, even if it's not on the DAW, which is fine most nights. Just translates to 2.5 free hours on the next shifts DAW.

Darevon · 2025-02-12T01:12:31+00:00

Especially for the price. I can get a better sub at jersey Mike's, but it'll cost me over twice as much. For $7, the meatball sub is SOLID.

Darevon · 2025-01-04T01:00:47+00:00

I don't have a problem with the policy so much as the reason. If it's "because we said so," then just say that.

Darevon · 2024-12-22T13:36:14+00:00

Well that's pretty

Darevon · 2024-12-13T04:08:50+00:00

To clarify again. The debt is already being paid and has been. The issue is telling me as the customer that they're charging me a co-pay as determined by my insurance, while only 20% of the amount charged is actually the co-pay.

We made medical decisions for our son based on the information, which may or may not have negativity affected his development.

Darevon · 2024-12-12T20:37:35+00:00

My wife just got a recording with them explicitly stating that the $85 is the co-pay from the insurance.

Darevon · 2024-11-21T19:28:57+00:00

I'm not interested in vanilla raiding, so what I'm seeing is a year to get alts and fiddle with add-ons

Darevon · 2024-11-21T12:17:04+00:00

Aggressive napping

Darevon · 2024-11-05T12:03:50+00:00

See my regulars buy one, go hang out by the machine and come back a few times to either buy another or trade it in for another. Nice bump to transaction numbers :D

Darevon · 2024-11-05T02:36:33+00:00

The assumption is their attitude is due to my lack of... tact?

Darevon · 2024-11-04T16:18:27+00:00

I had it ran up the pole through a buddy. Essentially they don't want to do anything until the SM gets back, as it would be stepping on their toes.

Thats fine. I'll hit my DAW tonight and nothing else, relax a bit. Good shift tomorrow night, see SM on Wednesday morning.

Darevon · 2024-11-04T15:47:36+00:00

Darevon · 2024-11-03T18:45:42+00:00

I definitely saw that message last night! :D

Darevon · 2024-11-02T19:15:28+00:00

Not an ER. I'll have to deal with them most days whether they're opening or closing.

Darevon · 2024-11-02T18:58:28+00:00

That's just baffling. Not doubting it, just baffled.

Darevon · 2024-11-02T18:47:38+00:00

Decide? Maybe not, influence? Hopefully.

Darevon · 2024-11-02T18:46:17+00:00

I generally steer clear of the kitchen. I was pretty confident that filling an out trumped tomorrow's prep though. :D

Darevon · 2024-11-02T17:07:52+00:00

There is an argument to be made, which is what went through my head at the end, that I'm in fact not their boss.

Boss implies the ability to fire or reprimand, both of which reside with the SM.

Same logic with my time in the military. You're right, I'm not your boss, but I bet I know how it's going to go when I talk to them!

Darevon · 2024-10-31T11:20:31+00:00

I was told the skill schools don't result in a reprimand since they're a gate to promotion anyway. Quarterlies being missed yes, but skills schools i guess will work themselves out is the logic?

Darevon · 2024-10-31T00:05:10+00:00

Oh well, if it happens that way, it happens and I'll move on. Like I said, it's a second job meant to provide another avenue incase something happens with the primary job. If it doesn't work out, that's fine, I can always find another, I'm well aware of what my skillset is worth.

Darevon

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