ULPT: How to look important at work

Posted by _bagelcherry_@reddit | UnethicalLifeProTips | View on Reddit | 20 comments

Our manager is cutting corners and started to get rid of some staff members. I need to look like someone who is absolutely essential to the smooth working of the restaurant. Finding a better job is unfortinately out of a question for now

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addy199@reddit

If applicable, write mails way out of your shift times. Be there all the time (if someone is sick for example) and propose ways of improving how everything is working.

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I_Want_A_Ribeye@reddit

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Pretend to be angry or stressed.

Leave your car in the lot. Bosses will see you’re there before them and leaving after them.

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thiccglossytaco@reddit

I have gotten so much mileage (literally and figuratively) out of just being a fast walker. People always think I'm busy doing something

Also, just cleaning random shit when I want to pass the time. It's worked at like, every kitchen job. Management loves it. Cleaning a couple odd things a week takes very little effort, but it makes a big impact on the whole "becoming invaluable" nonsense. It's also gotten me out of a lot of dealing with customers. No one wants to take over cleaning detail, over customers. Idk why.

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Witty_Professional_2@reddit

So essentially be a great employee. Far too ethical for this sub.

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SneakerTreater@reddit

But you can be visibly good but invisibly terrible

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Baby-faced-assassin9@reddit

Also look annoyed. You’ll seem busy and no one will bug You or ask you to do extra work. Worked for George!

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Madmonkeyfun@reddit

always carry a cloth with you and look like you are cleaning something, step behind the bar and arrange and rearrange the bottles in the fridge, even stock rotate them, strip the glasses off the shelves clean the shelves and put them back on again, it suprising how many people hate this job.

Offer to help in the kitchen when it's quieter, cleaning dishes, polishing cutlery, there re so many hidden jobs to do to look busy,

Good luck.

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SidTheGoblinKid@reddit

Start asking for work no one wants to do. Bathroom's gross? Front of house can wait, no one else is gonna do this. Sorry to say it but you gotta ham it up a bit, make yourself more reliable than anyone else in the workplace.

Offer to help the coworkers you don't wanna see anymore. 'Hey when I'm done mopping could I wash up and help out [X] with the onions?' It either makes others look consistently slow, or it boosts your own image.

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last_rights@reddit

I worked in a small Korean-owned Bento shop. There were two other front-of-house workers: the niece of the owner and her boyfriend.

When I got there the place was a pigsty and I hated sitting still. I cleaned the slime and black mold out of the soda machine and dismantled all the nozzles and drain pipes for cleaning. I dismantled the nozzles each night to clean them. The soda stopped tasting weird.

I mopped the floors, cleaned the tables, chairs, benches, legs, bathrooms and cleaned everything spotless. They let me take a drink out of the drink cabinet. I shared my tips. The cooks started making me lunch.

I started helping the cooks by making the to-go salads and bobas.

One day I got to work and the store has been "broken into". I closed that night, but I don't have keys, and there was no forced entry. The cash box was missing. I was accused, I volunteered to call the cops. The cooks panicked, perhaps because they didn't have work visas, perhaps because they did it. I told them to get their shift together because the boss wouldn't want to lose a full days sales from a missing cash box (I had no keys to that either). I could see the writing on the wall, so I put in my notice.

Greedy people will stab you in the back, even if they're stabbing themselves in the foot at the same time.

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HandshakeOfCO@reddit

This is good advice, but not for this subreddit.

This subreddit is more like, “hide half empty whisky bottles, tell leadership you think Karen is drinking on the job, wait until they install cameras, then tell Karen there’s free whisky in the walk in”

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SidTheGoblinKid@reddit

Well yeah but you can't trust any ole OP to not get caught doing something like that. And I don't wanna get caught endorsing something that'll get me in any legal trouble.

Out of every kitchen I've worked in, not a single one of my bosses cared about a shot here or there. Same rules with weed, coke, tobacco, etc. just don't let it show in your work and you're good.

Both of these methods can work, just don't get caught OP

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thiccglossytaco@reddit

I've gotten both mgmt praise and promotion based on being "detail oriented" and "going above and beyond" just by cleaning random shit everyone forgets about. Most of it takes 2 seconds but makes a huge visual impact. Easy peasy.

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lun4d0r4@reddit

This is a slippery slope. Once you make yourself indispensable, you will be passed over for promotions and pigeon holes into more tasks without appropriate recognition or remuneration.

Make sure to keep a balance so you don't get trapped.

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Have people leave negative reviews mentioning the co-workers you don't want to work with anymore.

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Neither-Box8081@reddit

If he's already started then you're sh** out of luck, he's already made up his mind who is value- added.

So since you're still there, consider yourself lucky, keep your head down and do well.