I just recently started working at a bakery here in the town that i live in... i wanted to work in a bakery so i could get the experience so that one day when i open up my own, i won't we totally dumb founded and not know how to run a bakery.... well anyways he its his way for t he highway basically!!! he had told us that our decorating was at a 95% and that it needs to be around a 70%. we are taking our time and not moving fast enough.. can you believe the nerve of him.. im sorry im not going to make a cake look like crap and especially if it has my name on it....... i wanted to walk out i was so mad.... just needed to vent.....
Unfortunately this is how it is in most bakeries that do a volume of cakes. They are all about being quick and getting things done in quantity so they can sell and make the money. I hope to never have a business like that. I would have a hard time dumbing down my decorating too. ((hugs))
I also agree with the PP.. 
what the h'll is wrong with people.....they open a business...then they hire people to do the jobs they need done. Once you get in the position you are never good enough....then why did they hire us in the 1st place.....obviously they are not very good at they're jobs or they wouldn't be so dam up tight. JERK 
im sorry im not going to make a cake look like crap and especially if it has my name on it.
Does your name go on it? I don't deal with bakeries; but back when I got married, i didn't know who made my wedding cake; just what bakery it was.
I think LittleLinda is right -- it's not your name that goes on it, it's his name, his business.
Unless the bakery is a high $$ boutique bakery that can afford to have people spending days on a cake like Charm City Cakes, volume is how he makes his money.
When I worked at a bakery, we each had our own individual cards - and we had to tape one to the box of each cake we decorated ("Specially Decorated for You by _________") That way when someone screwed up an order, they knew who it was. LOL!
Yep! been there done that but it was the best training I have ever had. By the time I left Iwas putting out 40-45 cakes per day on busy days.
I got hired to work a couple of days a week at this bakery and like you, it was for the experience so that I could get better at decorating and basically, learn the business too. I gave her my availability (I work fulltime elsewhere doing something I can't stand) and waited and waited.......and waited some more for her to call me to tell me when she needed me. She never called. Call me stupid, but I guess I figure that if I'm hiring someone to work for me, I should call them, not them call me to ask when they are needed. Whenever I've put in for a job somewhere, the prospective employer has called to tell me when my first day was...not me. She obviously didn't need me very badly. Come to find out, she is a b*tch....and I probably wouldn't have been too happy there either. And, I probably would have been too slow for her too. I think I'll just stick to doing my own cakes, which I know the girls at work love, and maybe one day, run my own small business through word-of-mouth.
When I worked at a bakery, we each had our own individual cards - and we had to tape one to the box of each cake we decorated ("Specially Decorated for You by _________") That way when someone screwed up an order, they knew who it was. LOL!
....or when someone did a wonderful job they knew who it was!
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