Diary Entry 4: Man Flu

Over the whole of last week and was suffering with what can only be described as man flu so had to take a few days off from work. Even on the days that I did manage to make it to work, my time shall we say was not spent very productively and I was sent home my the company manager to ensure I didn't pass on my illness to any other members of staff.

This resulted in today at work being my first full day back since wednesday. Its suprising how much I had actually falling behind on my tasks so had to spend the whole day working at super sonic speeds. But i'm grateful to the other employees who were more than willing to help me out today and had done a good job in my absence. After undertaking the main tasks, such as the stock take that I missed last week and sorting out the rest of this weeks staff rota I was more or less back up to date with my work load.

I do however feel it would be a good idea to train another member of staff to be able to complete the important tasks I'm responsible for incase for any reasons I am unable to do so.

Diary Entry 3: Darkness

The previous week had been progessing smoothly and everyone was in high spirits. We had started our Christmas booking and were experiencing very good feedback. The whole premises had been steamed cleaned and all freezes had been stocked ready for the Christmas rush. Everything was goin so well that it was only natural that somethings was going to go wrong!

That something being a power cut. The whole building was left without any source of electricity meaning we had no option but to close for the afternoon, loosing the customers we already had booked in. However this wasn't our major concern as we had recently stocked freezes which were beginning to defrost. Lucky we are currently providing catering at our local golf club on a temporary basis which had spare freezer space.

Therefore everyone from the owner to the kitchen porter spent a good hour transporting food from Bunkers to the golf club. Once the power was restored, we spent ba further two or three hours sorting all the stock back into some sort of order.

Diary Entry Number 2: Multi-tasking

The past few days at Bunkers Bunkers have been eventful to say the least. The run-up to Christmas is also a busy period for us as we are a popular choice for business looking for somewhere to host there christmas parties. So the last thing we needed was for our head-chef to fall ill but thats exactly what has happened.

This resulted in my self having to help out with the cooking and preperation in the kitchen, as well as completing the tasks I'm normally in charge of. This was not the best solution to our problem but as I'm a qualified chef I was the best candidate to help out on such short notice. I was required to use my time productively to insure the most urgent tasks were completed first and that each employee knew what tasks that were expected to do.

We all had to work that extra bit harder and insure we were on the same page but in the end, despite a few minor problems we were able to complete each and every service to our expected high standard and even achieved some glowing reviews. By having staff that are trained to do several different jobs within the company, it allows us all to fill in successfully when a member of staff is unwell or on holiday.