i’m pretty annoyed and need to commiserate. i’m a busser in a fine dining restaurant and naturally i make the least amount of money. in my experience with fine dining in my city, bussers typically only polish glasses and clean bathrooms at certain intervals (and also take out recycling).
anyway, on an extremely busy day early this year a food runner walked off the shift. i went down to help the runners and i guess was a big help that night. i was definitely happy to help on successive busy nights and did so at the expense of my job since they would really struggle and their jobs were more important.
anyway, now its become an occurrence every shift. we literally had a quiet saturday and they were asking me if i could come and help them. there is no way to help them not at detriment to my job. they can’t handle any day whether its below average, average, above average etc. i was fine with it before but they’ve also started to get pissy and rude with me when i say no (when ive been told off before for going to help them when i have glasses) and they also make more than me.
i feel like it’s unfair that im performing extra duties every shift now but being paid the same and getting no adjustment on the things i was doing before. i also get the sense some of the stuff they want me to do is not because they’re extremely busy, but because they don’t like those jobs and would rather hand them off to me. i would HATE to be a snitch and tell the manager but idek what to do. honestly im not going to be at the restaurant for that much longer but i also do have a second job so doing more physically difficult tasks and staying for longer each shift is taking its toll (especially for no extra money). any advice?