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pennie_dreadful) wrote2024-03-05 05:25 pm
pennie_dreadful) wrote2024-03-05 05:25 pm
big oof
Long time no post. Despite all efforts DW remains a ghost town.
I figured though, it was worth it to post this little update about The Job (which took 3 years of my life trying to get and I posted about it semi-frequently in 2013-2016): I am moving on. It was great while it lasted but capitalism ruins everything. Panera has become just like every other corp that puts profits over people. They're changing everything that made them special and competitive and making the need for bakers redundant. Everything is frozen now. It takes no skill anymore. Furthermore my role in the company is on thin ice and I'm positive I'll be layed off this year anyway. I've created a solid rep for myself and I know I will always have a place in the company should I want to transfer to cafe management, but my heart was only ever in Bake Ops. So I've got an interview in a few days that I have a really good feeling about, but I'm also feeling weird about the Panera era of my life being over. When I got promoted into my current role, I told my boss that I wanted Panera to be the last company I worked for and I meant it. But since 2017 when the the founder-CEO was forced out and they sold the company, things have just gone downhill. In the next couple of years they'll be baking frozen bread dough like Subway and selling prebaked and prepacked pastries like Starbucks. I'm not sticking around for that.
I figured though, it was worth it to post this little update about The Job (which took 3 years of my life trying to get and I posted about it semi-frequently in 2013-2016): I am moving on. It was great while it lasted but capitalism ruins everything. Panera has become just like every other corp that puts profits over people. They're changing everything that made them special and competitive and making the need for bakers redundant. Everything is frozen now. It takes no skill anymore. Furthermore my role in the company is on thin ice and I'm positive I'll be layed off this year anyway. I've created a solid rep for myself and I know I will always have a place in the company should I want to transfer to cafe management, but my heart was only ever in Bake Ops. So I've got an interview in a few days that I have a really good feeling about, but I'm also feeling weird about the Panera era of my life being over. When I got promoted into my current role, I told my boss that I wanted Panera to be the last company I worked for and I meant it. But since 2017 when the the founder-CEO was forced out and they sold the company, things have just gone downhill. In the next couple of years they'll be baking frozen bread dough like Subway and selling prebaked and prepacked pastries like Starbucks. I'm not sticking around for that.