LET'S PLAY DRESS UP
As many of you could have guessed, Monday Night Football is big at Hooters. It's the busiest night of the week and the only thing that brings in more people than that is the UFC fights. I'm not exactly sure what the reasoning behind it is but every Monday night, the girls that are working have to dress up. There's a list of themes in the back that tell you what you will be dressing up as for each game and there's a little booklet with ideas of what to wear for each week.
I've worked almost every Monday Night Football since I started (tonight I have the night off though!!!) and at first, dressing up was fun. Now it's really just turned into an expensive pain in the ###. I spend, on average $50.00 every week on a costume that I will probably never wear again. I do make the money back in tips that night plus a lot more but if I saved that $50.00 every week, it wouldn't take me long to have enough money for new tires on my car. Which I desperately need before the snow comes...
It also is a bit of a scramble to get a costume together since the schedule for the next week usually up until the Thursday before. I don't work Thursdays, and although I could call and ask what days I work, I don't find out my schedule until Friday night, when I'm working and unable to go shopping for a costume. Saturdays I like to sleep in a little bit and then go out with friends and not think about work and then Sunday I work until about 5PM at which point all the stores close for the night. So Monday, in the 3 hours I have between school and work, I have to rush around the city trying to find myself a costume. Not fun and pretty stressful.
Last week, we had to dress as cheerleaders. So on Monday afternoon I went to 4 costume stores, all of which had no cheerleader costumes left. I went to a couple sex stores but decided that I didn't want people to actually see my breasts while I served them their food and putting a shirt underneath that top just wouldn't look right. I went to a fifth costume shop and found a pink cheerleader costume that came with white pompoms. It was $120.00. At that point, I was getting pretty desperate so I tried it on. The thing was too damn big. So I went to the mall and pieced a costume together. I got a white skirt, a red sweater with a big letter H (perfect!) on the front and some pompoms from the dollar store.
I got to work and changed into my costume. The other girls usually dress a little bit more revealing than me but not too much. This week, they outdid themselves, though. There were miniscule skirts with no shorts underneath, bare midriffs and v-necks cut so deep that nip-slips were inevitable.
I still felt good about what I was wearing because I wouldn't constantly be worrying about what was hanging out of where. I walked over to the table where we were doing jump start and GM F told us to give him a second. He came back with a pair of scissors and handed them to Tink.
"Go fix HGWB." Seriously?
My skirt was kind of short and the sweater was a v-neck. It wasn't nearly as extreme as the other girls but it's not like I looked like I was wearing a burka or anything. Me and Tink went to the back and laughed about how ridiculous our job is. We cut an inch or two from my skirt and cut the neck of my sweater to make it a deeper V. GM F was pleased with the results. I was glad I wore spandex shorts under my skirt.
Things like this happen a lot at Hooters. Most weeks, there's a girl who isn't showing enough skin and just a few weeks ago we were told that on the days when our city's hockey team is playing we were no longer allowed to wear jerseys or t-shirts for the team since, according to GM F, "nobody wants to go to Hooters and see a girl in a plain t-shirt serving their food."
I just have to laugh about it.
I'm pleased to inform you that this is incorrect. They just switched to cotton shorts which are even shorter and tighter than the spandex ones! You can read about it here, and there are pics of them everywhere:
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. Still the response seemed more than a bit weak ultimately. The best theater would've been him showing up with a tray full of beans and smushing the guy's face in it 
in and of itself of course seemed to be a "how do we close out this storyline" type of deal. He mentioned that they didn't seem to take much care of the backend of the restaurant (and really by the looks of things that seemed true) yet there was no pledge to see how they could make the work environment better for the guys working in the back.
. Still the response seemed more than a bit weak ultimately. The best theater would've been him showing up with a tray full of beans and smushing the guy's face in it 
Transferring the good manager to a less-stressful position sounded actually like it was a demotion.The military donation, while 
. Still the response seemed more than a bit weak ultimately. The best theater would've been him showing up with a tray full of beans and smushing the guy's face in it 
in and of itself of course seemed to be a "how do we close out this storyline" type of deal. He mentioned that they didn't seem to take much care of the backend of the restaurant (and really by the looks of things that seemed true) yet there was no pledge to see how they could make the work environment better for the guys working in the back.Ultimately I think this show is going to burn out fast.-QG
Seems to me like the number of companies that this would work well with (and would be willing to do it) and would maintain interest isn't necessarily that big. Most white-collar stuff would seem to be out, for example.This episode showed that the 'reward' segment needs delivery no matter what. I mean, if the company works well there's not that payoff of the boss learning about what needs to be improved. Canning that guy or busting him down would've actually added a little more drama - that there'd be potential consequences for truly problematic employees (other than every customer at his Hooters say "Hey, you're that jerk from Undercover Boss").How this doesn't become repetitive is what seems uncertain to me.-QG
