Defending my rights!

I already wrote something about working in the Hard Rock Cafe. It is a great place to work there but there are few things that I just can´t let go.

After every FoodRunner shift we have to collect our tips. Sounds like a nice activity to collect money but the opposite is truth. We have to beg all the servers to give us the right amount of the money due to the Net sales (it says how much does HRC earn that day/shift). Some are nice and always honest, some are not. Unfortunately the non-honest ones are dominion.

Yesterday I was in kinda good mood but then there came the collecting of the tips. Everybody was like "Wait a minute"..."Give me a second" etc... I spent the whole break by collecting the money so I could barely eat well (And I was working from 11am till 9.30pm!!!) One of the servers (the biggest one- he weights 200kg and is 2,5m tall) when I asked for the bill of the NetSales (so I could check the right amount of the money that he was supposed to give us) he put on the most horrible face and warned me "You don´t EVER ask for the bill again!!! Are we clear?"
In the normal situation I would just walk away but not now, no when it was about the money that I have to pay rent with. (And it is not a small amount of money! )
I get so mad that I almost burst into tears told him that it is my right to see the bill and I AM gonna ask for the bill every time. 15 seconds later when a manager went by with a smile on his face and the usual "Heeey everything´s okay?" I had no more energy and mood to say "Sure, everything´s okay" with a fake smile like we always did. The only thing I said was "Nothing´s okay, mostly with the fucking tips" and just madly walked away.

I thought that he´d just walk away like nothing´s happened but fortunately not this time. He wanted to talk to us (a food runner and friend Dejan (G) and me) about everything. And because I was mad as hell I just told him everything. Every fucking fucked up thing about working in HRC. (He even wrote some notes about it!)

He promised us to fix everything and talk to CH. (the BIG rude server) about the other incident.

I am VERY curious about it. If something´s gonna change but what is good- the Big Ch. came after his shift to apologize and explain everything. He even hugged me in the end of the conversation!

I was so mad and angry that I walked all my way home at 10pm! (Even some killer would change his mind about killing me when I was in that kinda mood :D )

I already asked the manager to give me the most shifts as a Prep and Line cook and less as a FoodRunner. It is fun (well I still don´t know about the LineCook because I haven´t done that yet but it is all about making desserts so I am gonna love it) and even better paid!

Niki is going through hard times in HRC too. As long she´s a host she is paid by hour and not with tips (Lucky her). Unfortunately for her she has so few working hours that she barely has 30 hours per week! (and 32 is the minimum!) She has to talk to a manager too otherwise she´s gonna find another job.

Although it may seem like we are not happy here don´t get us wrong. We are super happy here and we don ´t wanna leave the USA anymore! (I already found my "Green Card-Husband" He proposed in a Meridian Hill park while we were having pique-nique :D ) We are enjoying every single day here, we just don´t want to let others to shit on our head and most importantly---> We HAVE TO go to New York and California and that is not for free either :)

Hope you don´t have to fight with anybody and that you are enjoying your summer! :)
We miss you all! ♥