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The Country Club
2 reviews for The Country Club
I'm reviewing The Country Club (TCC) as a place to work, definitely definitely not as a member. I've cocktailed in the dining room during dinner and worked a little on the banquet staff which sets up/serves events. It's an EXTREMELY wealthy, beautiful country club and the staff benefits greatly. The staff is largely a revolving (especially banquet, dining staff is more stable) set of college-aged students, but there are long-time staffers as well.
Benefits:
- you get a yummy meal with every shift that you work. If you work dinner, you get there around 5, eat, then work. They always have a hot meal, plus a full salad bar, cereals, bread, and PB & J.
- often there are extra cookies and goodies from events that they leave for the staff. I had a roommate the takes the floral arrangements home.
- starting pay I think is about $12/hour? I haven't worked there in a year or so, but the pay is GREAT.
- they have a van that picks staff up from the Reservoir T stop and drops people off at night
- very good, accommodating management - I never had any problems and they make a lot of effort to actually get to know you
- the dishwashing staff is so friendly! the chefs seem a little more stressed and not always super friendly but my interaction with them was always limited anyways
- cocktailing is EXTREMELY easy and was more standing around than anything else
- bonding with staff over pretentious, uber rich people & their mannerisms is always great
- some holidays you get double or triple overtime pay. fantastic esp for college students that don't go home during the holidays.
- some of their events are really very beautiful & extravagant, including weddings, wine/beer tastings. I can (sort of) enjoy them and pretend I'm a part of that world without having to deal with all the guilt I'd feel of actually living like that.
- they take the time to train you well, and don't force you to do things you are uncomfortable with. they realize happy workers = happy members.
- personally i enjoyed learning all the little details of proper serving/clearing, wine presenting and pouring, table settings...I'm an organized, detail-oriented person and pick up on The Way Things Are Done quickly, though to many this could easily be a irritating negative.
Negatives:
- while most members are not rude or super demanding, i sometimes felt somewhat invisible (as in unacknowledged) to them. also you really arent supposed to talk to members, not that there's a whole lot of opportunity to.
- you can get pressured into working more hours than you want
- they always set up for the next days events the night before, so after you serve/clean up from dinner or whatever event you have, you still have to breakdown the room and reset it - meaning moving tables, getting table cloths, counting place settings, setting all the tables perfectly...after a long night on your feet, it was always the last thing I wanted to do.
- dining staff wears bowties. ugh.
- the excessive of events/waste drove me crazy
When it comes down to it, I couldn't have asked for a better place (not to mention pay!) to work. There's glitz and glamor but there's also a sense of history and home-y-ness. As long as you put on a smile and serve the basically all white multi-millionaires of Boston, they really take care of you.
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I also worked here a couple summers ago as a caddy. TCC is a pretty cool place golf-wise and the members were very nice!