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19 years ago
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Well it's my second week of my new job. I'm working in the dishroom of our valley's largest and most well known retirement home, and it's actually pretty darn good work. 8 bucks an hour. Heck of a lot better than risking life and limb working on a printing press.
I work more than most everyone on my shift, since I actually work 8 hours. The shift is actually more like 6 hours, so I end up helping out the end of the AM shift. I work swing, 2-10 PM but we've been getting out early a lot lately.
Most of the work I do, when I'm not helping out the end of the AM or PM shift, is shuttling dishes back to the dishroom. Not exciting work (it's rather slow since I'm passing by a clock every 5 minutes...) but it's not difficult work.
Everything else I do is either washing pans (meh), unloading trays (easy), unloading freshly washed racks (HOT!!!) or putting stuff away. Since we're THE dishroom in this 11-floor manor, we deal with every dish and pan that's ever used. Needless to say, we're pretty busy most of the time. :P
The servers are generally kinda crabby. It's one of those "pretty face/bad attitude" kind of situations. They're not mean, but they are relatively irritable. And yesterday everyone working the dining room was... on edge for some reason. I did my part by simply keeping out of their way... the way I see it, they need to get where they're going more quickly than I do anyway.
There are a few people in the dishroom I don't like too much, like the ladies who don't speak English like... at all (they're off in their own little world, and slow most of the time), and the tall skinny guy who's got the mouth and attitude of a middle schooler. (He ain't stayin, I can tell you that.)
But I keep my thoughts to myself. No sense in unnecessary drama. And for the most part, things go pretty smoothly regardless. Things just get hectic and fast-paced, and I don't see people who are slow or complainy helping matters at all.
And of course, I'm making money. Which is important. I pretty much have enough to go to FC now, and I'm going to keep saving as much as possible. The only possible hitch is getting time off, which I've not asked for yet.
So yeah. I start in a couple hours from now, so I should think about packing my lunch. Toodles.
I work more than most everyone on my shift, since I actually work 8 hours. The shift is actually more like 6 hours, so I end up helping out the end of the AM shift. I work swing, 2-10 PM but we've been getting out early a lot lately.
Most of the work I do, when I'm not helping out the end of the AM or PM shift, is shuttling dishes back to the dishroom. Not exciting work (it's rather slow since I'm passing by a clock every 5 minutes...) but it's not difficult work.
Everything else I do is either washing pans (meh), unloading trays (easy), unloading freshly washed racks (HOT!!!) or putting stuff away. Since we're THE dishroom in this 11-floor manor, we deal with every dish and pan that's ever used. Needless to say, we're pretty busy most of the time. :P
The servers are generally kinda crabby. It's one of those "pretty face/bad attitude" kind of situations. They're not mean, but they are relatively irritable. And yesterday everyone working the dining room was... on edge for some reason. I did my part by simply keeping out of their way... the way I see it, they need to get where they're going more quickly than I do anyway.
There are a few people in the dishroom I don't like too much, like the ladies who don't speak English like... at all (they're off in their own little world, and slow most of the time), and the tall skinny guy who's got the mouth and attitude of a middle schooler. (He ain't stayin, I can tell you that.)
But I keep my thoughts to myself. No sense in unnecessary drama. And for the most part, things go pretty smoothly regardless. Things just get hectic and fast-paced, and I don't see people who are slow or complainy helping matters at all.
And of course, I'm making money. Which is important. I pretty much have enough to go to FC now, and I'm going to keep saving as much as possible. The only possible hitch is getting time off, which I've not asked for yet.
So yeah. I start in a couple hours from now, so I should think about packing my lunch. Toodles.
FIRE BURN!!!!!!!