Pros
- Great on-boarding experience. HR and dining room manager was great. You get uniforms provided. - Above average pay (was expecting minimum wage). - Relatively closed environment but still gives you enough exposure to a real-world work environment (so you don't have to deal with random BS all the time). - You get to know a lot of seniors and their interesting stories. - We usually gets to eat after service hours ended. And food here is amazing. - Shifts are pretty flexible as long as you request the off dates 1 scheduling period prior.
Cons
- Sometimes work might be a bit heavy due to someone calling in sick or just a busy day in general. (On a busy day the step count is around 11000 steps for a 3.5 service hours) - When you start it might be more difficult than other jobs because you need to adjust to the needs of the seniors as opposed to just serving some random people indifferently. - Sometimes the kitchen staff might be on a bad mood and may yell at you for arbitrary reasons. - The higher management sometimes comes up with new idiotic policies that 1) doesn't make sense and 2) isn't very enforceable and just difficult to comply with. Changes in the management team happens a lot more frequent than I expected. - A bit short-staffed so although there is a lot of flexibility about choosing your shifts, it's hard to find someone to cover.