ok, more then.
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charlz_lynnthanks for all the support in response to my last post. so here's the deal...
lv sent out a letter to all who were in leadership positions last year, asking how we can cut back our areas. just our own areas, no one else's. that's not so hard. i had a couple ideas, and i shared them, and grover and i have been talking about lace, too... and even though i'm not in leadership, i shared that, too.
the hard part was trying to explain that we, in main kitchen, actually work our asses off. without sounding like a whiner. they've been talking about cutting our crew back in numbers, again, and physically it just doesn't make any sense. i already worked a bunch of 12 hour days last year, and so did the folks in prep, and probably all the other areas of the kitchen, i just don't know. because regardless of how many festies are there, we still have to have bodies directing them. to give a little perspective, we were 10 crew members fewer than gals last year. it's hard to not feel picked on when we just keep shrinking, and just keep having to work longer days. especially with fewer festies, because no one shows up for their fucking workshifts! so we're doing the physical work while directing all the shiftworkers, which is more exhausting than i could ever describe. if i'm lucky, i have about 50 shifties through dinner, and three other people working to help manage all that, last year we'd get one person who signed up, then jb would go get more people. so we'd end up with about 14 people to serve dinner to 3,000, and two or three crew members on directing the whole service circus. and ps. i had lost my voice by friday from talking for 8-12 hours straight every day.
so that was the letter, basically. trying to talk her out of making us smaller. because the first two people come out of service. which means no breaks for me, and (if i'm the AC again) i'll have to ask my crew to work 12 hour days most of the time, too. it's just fucked, and i have to say it, not fair. because however whiney this sounds, it's true: i have friends who work 5-6 hour shifts. that's great for them... but maybe their crews could be smaller before mine.
ok, this version is quite a bit more angsty than what i wrote lv. but you get the idea.
lv sent out a letter to all who were in leadership positions last year, asking how we can cut back our areas. just our own areas, no one else's. that's not so hard. i had a couple ideas, and i shared them, and grover and i have been talking about lace, too... and even though i'm not in leadership, i shared that, too.
the hard part was trying to explain that we, in main kitchen, actually work our asses off. without sounding like a whiner. they've been talking about cutting our crew back in numbers, again, and physically it just doesn't make any sense. i already worked a bunch of 12 hour days last year, and so did the folks in prep, and probably all the other areas of the kitchen, i just don't know. because regardless of how many festies are there, we still have to have bodies directing them. to give a little perspective, we were 10 crew members fewer than gals last year. it's hard to not feel picked on when we just keep shrinking, and just keep having to work longer days. especially with fewer festies, because no one shows up for their fucking workshifts! so we're doing the physical work while directing all the shiftworkers, which is more exhausting than i could ever describe. if i'm lucky, i have about 50 shifties through dinner, and three other people working to help manage all that, last year we'd get one person who signed up, then jb would go get more people. so we'd end up with about 14 people to serve dinner to 3,000, and two or three crew members on directing the whole service circus. and ps. i had lost my voice by friday from talking for 8-12 hours straight every day.
so that was the letter, basically. trying to talk her out of making us smaller. because the first two people come out of service. which means no breaks for me, and (if i'm the AC again) i'll have to ask my crew to work 12 hour days most of the time, too. it's just fucked, and i have to say it, not fair. because however whiney this sounds, it's true: i have friends who work 5-6 hour shifts. that's great for them... but maybe their crews could be smaller before mine.
ok, this version is quite a bit more angsty than what i wrote lv. but you get the idea.
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Re: hi
Date: 2006-11-29 05:54 pm (UTC)branstorming alone has felt like it's bringing me closer to seizures.
And I had no idea you all were getting cut back so drastically. wow.
what a great idea; the insert, and the website. I really do feel like education is key. It seems the communities in which my/our generation exists maybe do not hold as much responsibility or accountability in general, as compared to those of women when the festival started. Maybe we're just not as fired up about things. I dunno.
Anyway, thanks for those suggestions, they're great. I'll mention them...
xo, c