Looks like my Grandpa's backyard...
Everything in the bakery department is broken in some way. Everything we have is old as sin and falling apart. We have three proofers and only one works fully. The other one struggles on, pittering about like the proofer-that-could. For the uniniciated, a proof is like a sauna for dough. It just makes the dough rise faster. Normally, bread is allowed to proof over night, but in this day and age we use proofers. They're easier, cleaner, and faster than the old fashion method. Or it would be if they did not have these episodes. And if you don't wash them regularly BOY can they rank up a stink. Trust me. I have burned nose hairs inhaling that stench.
Then there is a the bread slicer. This particular piece of human ingenuity is probably my biggest peeve as far as defaulting equipment. You see, the bread slicer is essentially a lever controlled arm that pushed a loaf of Italian bread into a wall of moving serrated blades. It's a really old model compared to the more modern designs, most of which are designed so that a two year old can safely operate it. Ours? You need to wear a chain mail glove JUST to handle the bread into it just in case your fingers get too close and those scary blades decide they would very might like to bite you. And don't think you're safe because you have that glove on either! I turned it on once and one of the rusty blades FLEW OFF and hit my arm. Luckily the dull side hit so I wasnot cut, but still. Scary shit, man. I have cut myself only once on the slicer though and is was bad enough to wish horrible things on that shitty piece of pooh. It's noisy too! Imagine pieces of rusty metal and gears shaking and squealing at a decibel just barely below your level of tolerance.
We also have a pizza oven which no longer works so now it's just a giant $10,000 egg timer and storage unit.
Our main oven operates as such: the oven racks have tacks on top where you push them onto another track in the oven hooks to a rotating dais. It lifts the rack and spins so the bread is cooked evenly from all sides and you don't have to rotate it manually. Our oven sucks. It's old, the steaming function barely works, and it likes to stop spinning at random times so when the timer goes off and you go to pull the rack out, you have bread that's burnt on one side and raw on the other. Our oven acts like someone with Alzheimer's. All of a sudden it'll forget what it's doing and the heat will stop or it will stop spinning. I would LOVE to kick the freaking window in.
And for the love of god will you people be more careful with the airbrush gun? Those needles are expensive and I'm sick of spending ten minutes EVERY DAY trying to straighten the bent needle tip out.
Our store is a the farthest out from most of the other locations, we're a good hour's drive from the next store so we're always the last for everything. New equipment mostly. Except audits. We always seem to be the first in line for those. Those higher ups just can't wait o tell us how shitty a job we're doing with the complete lack of resources they provide us with.
