Friday Thoughts- Part 8

I always feel like a stick in the mud when I complain. But something had to be done about a particular aspect of my work. As such, I'm going to make fun of myself and the letter I sent to address it. These will be in red :)

The Shirt Room First off, NO ONE is going to read this if it's send out en masse to the workers of catering because of two things. 1) This letter is too long and 2) No one cares.

It has come to my attention that Catering workers as a whole have taken to leaving the shirt room in a slovenly state. This is me being very nice. I wanted to start ranting about how I am not the mother of Catering and don't feel like cleaning up this pig sty of a room everyday! But then I thought this would be inappropriate 1) because I'm sure people are more neat in their rooms at home than they are in the shirt room (really they are) and 2) everyone would start calling me the mother of catering :( Vests are thrown askew on the lower rack, on the floor, and put away in the wrong size section. Also, coat hangers are left on the rack and floor and forgotten. I must emphasize that while it is my responsibility to organize the shirt room, it has become an extreme situation that can only be corrected if every person that uses the shirt room cooperates. The best thing about this statement is that whenever I'm putting shirts away in the shirt room, people do what they are supposed to. Too bad I like to think I have better things to do than pic-nic out in the shirt room all day in order to make sure my mere presences scares people into submissive tidiness.

Firstly, when getting a shirt or vest, do NOT leave the hanger on the rack. There is a coat hanger holder conveniently put next to the door of the shirt room and I ask you to put them there. I’m sure that all of us can manage to go the 5 feet distance between the shirt rack and the coat hanger holder by the door in order to maintain some order in the shirt room. (Captains, I realize that some of you are not tall enough to get hangers off of the top shirt rack. As such, I have provided a blue crate to use for an extra boost so that you have no excuse not to put your hangers away as well.) bwahahah! A jab at the other captains. I really don't think this should be funny to me, but I wasn't the one who put the captain's shirts on the top rack so I don't feel bad when I laugh about this.

Secondly, when there are bags of recently cleaned shirts from laundry, do NOT take from them unless you plan on putting the whole bag away in the correct shirt/vest location. When you do go against this rule, shirts and vests often end up in the wrong shirt section. This may not seem too horrible, but tell that to someone who goes for a small vest and finds out as they change that they actually have a 3XL. It’s a nuisance that adds unnecessary time when getting ready for work that is easily avoided. Plus I love taking the wrapping off of new shirts. It's like unwrapping presents! Except I don't really get anything I want...

Lastly comes the question,‘when do you put vests that you have used back on the shirt rack?’ Dirty vests constitute vest that have blatantly visible dirties on them. I like to think of it as an obscene amount of crud on your vest. If you notice a small spot, you should ask another worker if they also think it is sufficient enough to label the vest ‘dirty’. If so, then yes, please put it in the dirty vest bag. Otherwise the vest can be re-used. This saves money for catering on laundry expenses. Wearing a vest once does not constitute it being dirty like a shirt does.

Vests that need mending should not go back on the rack. Please fold them up neatly and put them in the gray bin with the other vests that need to be mended. When the bin gets full, I make sure that laundry takes care of these vests. This helps us to look professional when our vests are not torn up and have the right number of buttons on them. I've been expressively forbidden from mending them myself :( Missing buttons annoy me so much.

If your vest has passed these two inspections, now comes how to go about putting your vest back on the rack. Button the top button of your vest and put a coat hanger in it with the hanger facing to the left. Buttoning the top button keeps the vest from falling onto the floor after you put it on away. Then hang your vest up on the left of the black shirts if it is a men’s vest and on the right of them if it is a women’s vest in the proper size section. I think this may be the point where any reader of this letter thinks I'm a little to organized for my own good. Yes. Yes I am.

In summary, don’t put your uniform clothing slovenly over the rack, on the floor, or on the blue crates full of aprons. Put it where it belongs. Thank you for your efforts. It seems a nuisance for you to take this small amount of time to do these things, but if you don’t, it negatively affects others who use the shirt room.

- Sincerely

- Your Friendly Neighborhood Opener I love spiderman :D

(I can provide a diagram of where clothing articles go in the shirt room if so desired. ) I love to draw!

So I hope you enjoyed my rant and my successive making fun of myself. Somebody has to care about the shirt room, poor thing.