I'm paid by the hour as well. Usually a quick run over a tri-stone is enough to keep them in line, but sometimes -- especially during a busy week -- I forget about it or keep putting it off until they get really, really fucked. Then I usually bring them home, spend about half an hour getting the perfect edge on them, give them a nice cleaning, and take them back to work to get fucked up again. Usually happens about once every three months.
Also, I'm the "designate" in my department, so the majority of my days is spent doing little bits of work here and there, and helping out with paperwork/running the shop. I have to put up the proper "appearance" for how to manage time, even though I'm just a part-time cutter getting dick all for hours, and they seem to expect that they can bring me in for two days a week, and on my first day back after a week off, I'll know what's happened in the last seven days enough to make an appropriate order, adjust quantities of what's coming in on the computer, and run the show like I know what the fuck I'm doing.
Fucking hate my store.
Can't wait to quit.
... my steak knife is pretty sexy, though.
