We all know that the pictures of the hamburgers at any big fast food chain aren't going to look like the thing you actually find in your bag. But I have to say, I didn't expect the same semi-deception from my new job.

The position I applied for was referred to as a "kitchen job". The actual job is everything BUT cooking. I'll be taking orders (on a very confusing system, but high tech for a ma and pa business), cleaning dishes, cleaning the place, prepping and refilling cheese meat and veggie containers and handling salads and the pasta and sauce half of pasta dishes, and manning the counter of course. It turns out that the actual cooking is a job left to others. By the way things went, I think the cooking jobs go to senior staff, who are also expected to make sure the people not cooking don't slack off.

Now that I think back, there were only two positions open, a delivery job and a "kitchen" job. What the owner probably meant by "kitchen" was "everything that isn't to do with driving pizza around in a car." I guess that sort of makes sense, but how is someone on the outside supposed to know "kitchen cook" actually means "person who takes calls and mans the till"?

To be honest, I'm bummed out by this. I had visions of me making up a pizza storm in the kitchen, learning their secrets and the trade. Now it seems like all I'll learn is the funky system they use for taking orders. The LAST thing I wanted to do was take orders. I was terrified of maybe having to write each order down... this system they have makes me more scared. I don't want to screw up an order.... but I'm of course going to stick with it.

Having a job will be good for me, I need the experience, and I need something on my resume. Plus, I'm a super duper hard worker, I hope my effort will show. Plus, I might be able to do a bit of graphic design work for them. They've got one sign done in sharpie and another done up in a 1970's "groovy" font in Word by someone that only knows how to center align and make words bigger in Word.