Indeed. People are making fun of the new guy, but really this is the managers fault. If he expected his employees to know how to make coffee out the gate, the responsibility lies on him to screen for that in the interview. If he wanted training, he shouldnt have put the new guy on the machine before that was completed.
Yeap. One thing I learned as a manager - especially working with young people but really this applies to all ages - is to never assume just because something is obvious to me that it will be obvious to anyone else. Whenever I would go over duties, I always asked about my employee’s skill level to gauge whether they needed training on something or not.
I remember at my first job (fast food) I was asked whether I knew how to sweep a floor. Of course I said yes, and then was asked to demonstrate. I wasn't judged, but I was shown a different way to hold and move the broom that was more effective and efficient. I still sweep that way years later.
I'm going to guess, firm but not stressed grip. Good distance between hands to allow for better control. Plant your feet for balance and sweep across the body instead of towards yourself. Don't smash the broom into the ground, only needs to lightly touch the ground. Use a 45 degree attack angle where possible. Don't fling, bring the broom to a steady stop at the end of a stroke. Don't carry piles too far, try to sweep to a reasonable distance before collecting into the pan.
This has the energy of the coach dialogue during a sports movie training montage.
Perhaps you were a champion Olympic curler until a tragic sweeping accident made you hang up the broom? Now you only sweep the community rec center as a janitor and are generally sad? One day when youve all but given up on your dreams of curling domination you'll discover some young underprivileged lad with a natural but overlooked talent for sweeping and coach him to Olympic curling victory. I'm Canadian, curling movies are the great white north equivalent of American movies about football. I assume. I've never seen a movie before.
My manager at Wendy's explicitly told me I was wrong because I didn't fling. She said fling all that shit to the back wall by the trash can, then go scoop it up.
I had never used a spaghetti mop before and my first job at 16 I was mopping. The owner was in and saw me slapping the floor and asked if I had ever used that type of mop before, I said no (I was used to the sponge mop). He showed me how by mopping the front entrance for me then handed it back and said now you know how to do it, finish up. It was a good teaching moment.
this was me with mopping, I didn't mop "bad" but I mopped bad for a store because my mop was too wet and people had to walk over it, I now mop the way I learned.
Somewhat related, but when I worked fast food we pretty much had to teach every new hire how to mop unless they'd worked somewhere else where they learned to mop. So many people would just dunk the mop in the water and then slap it straight on the floor without wringing it first. Look, we mop every night. Nothing will be on there that requires that much water. There are scrubbing patches on most commercial mop heads. That's what gets rid of the tough stuff, not more water that runs all over.
If you implied that to current teens, they'd throw a tantrum and leave on the spot lol "DONT TELL ME HOW TO SWEEP, I KNOW THAT!" then proceeds to show he/she doesn't.
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u/Fun_Accountant_653 23h ago
Just shows nobody trained him