One Lazy Muck

I do not think that I can go into work without feeling like I am in a different world. This past Wednesday I went into work to find that half of the kitchen had been remodeled. The walls were clad with stainless steel and many of the shelving units had been replaced with brand new ones. The most shocking piece of new machinery was the new muck table. Let me define "muck" for people who may not understand the concept or why my blog is its namesake. "Muck" is the location or table that dirty dishes are piled on in order to be scraped of their contents and stacked for the amigos to wash. This new muck table looked as if it were ready for an embalming, with a large drain and pipe leading from the bottom of the inclined edges. Not only was the table smaller than the previous one, I simply did not like the disorder that would result from a smaller workspace. My job seems to get less and less productive with all of these new implemented procedures. I guess it is not up to me to make decisions on whether work procedures are productive or not; I am only a busboy.

I still find many of my fellow busboys to be lazy bums. How is it that I manage to find three dirty tables in five seconds when I arrive in a section of the restaurant that a busboy has been lazily standing in that section for the previous ten minutes? Either apathy is growing with each generation, or they honestly do not understand the value of hard work. Even when the morning closer busboy collects tip money from the servers, he should continue cleaning tables. Because the morning closer for Sunday did not continue cleaning tables while he collected money, we fell behind in our work and I was unable to leave until thirty minutes past when I should have left. Although this angered my, I felt that it was a somewhat of a good thing considering that I earned an extra thirty minutes of pay that I would not have made had I left on time. I try to work as hard as I can to prove my value to a company/organization and help that company prosper as much as possible.