Well I can try to help you if you have any questions, i've worked in the bakery for about 5 years.

First of all, it's a lot of labor for a job that isn't seen as important to the company. Bakery gets a lot less hours to do a lot more work than say, deli. Not saying deli isn't busy, I know every department in the store is busy and understaffed, but i've been told bakery is just here as a service to customers, because for the amount of labor hours, we don't really make a profit at all for the company.

But that being said, with enough practice, if you have the right work ethic, you can do it :)

What are you doing during your 8-4 shift? Filling tables? If you are, i would suggest taking it one table at a time. When pulling product from the freezer, write down what you need and take it with you so you only get out what you need.

You seem like you care about doing good job. So just hang in there, do the best you can and know, that you will never have enough time to do everything required. Because you will be understaffed and hours are being cut. So if you can, prioritize. What is the priority, you will find out on your own after a while of doing it. Try not do do everything perfectly, but rather enough of everything so nobody can say you didn't do something.

Pretty soon you will find your best workflow and things will go easier. Hang in there.

Lol what other workers I'm the only one back there at night it's the manager (who they say does nothing before I come in not even helping me get a head start), the person who bakes bread in the morning, and me doing everything else. which includes stocking the bread board, sweet goods, cookies, taste of italy, and apparently the cakes when the cake decorator isn't here. They just added one more person here that's already been here before I started because they said I was going too slow but she came in and all she had to do was box the cookies and put labels on them after I leave but she couldn't do that. Yet the same worker was saying I was slow. But I don't fault her it's a lot of work. Yes everyone tells me to go in breaks but going on break without finishing my work doesn't sit right with me even though I never finish I atleast try.

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Ok so I started doing the bakery after being in the deli as a new hire for about two weeks been in the bakery for about two weeks I usually come in the morning time but not before the baker 8am-4pm. I am having trouble getting everything done. What I have to do when I come and things that I make up along the way is check the tables pull out-of-dates and markdowns mark those down. Then ask for a cap but usually don't get it till two hours or 1 hour before my shift ends. I bake cookies for a while which seems to apparently shouldn't take that long my managers insists. And I have to stop to take orders all the time and write on cakes when or cake decorator isn't there. I've even had to train people yea a new guy training someone  we all know how bad that went. I don't like it that they think I'm not working I'm just trying to learn this stuff and I'm going as fast as I can but to them it seems I am going slow.

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 How long does it take you to pan out a 15-rack channel cart of cookies?  Are you panning the cookies out two or more at a time or are you grabbing one cookie from the box and placing it on the pan, grab another cookie from the box, place it on the pan?   Some people will grab a whole handful of cookies, throw them on the pan, and then quickly arrange them into a 6x4 pattern.

A rack of 15-18 trays should be doable in 15-20 minutes tops. Throw em out several at a time in the 6x4 pattern.