Ballistics.
So here's a conversation I heard in my house...
Chris: Mom, you have any money?
Mom: I have ten dollars in quarters.
Chris: Uh... give me two dollars in quarters.
So I had my last day at Cooking.com. I guess I never really explained what I did there. Cooking.com is an online retail store for cooking supplies. Cooking.com actually runs a number of other online retail sites including the Food Network Store, the Starbucks Store, KitchenEtc.com, the Pillsbury Store, and the Betty Crocker Store. I worked as a customer service representative, basically just answering phones and responding to e-mails. It's not like I had to really learn anything about cooking or anything. If someone asked me a question I didn't know, then I'd put them on hold and google it really fast or just tell them to call the manufacturer. The office was a pretty friendly environment. For some reason, my nick name was Mario Lopez. I actually surprised a girl after a whole month of working there when I told her my real name. So I made two lists to sum up my experience at Cooking.com, one for the good and one for the bad.
Good Memories:
+Working with Christina.
+Chicken-bakes. Costco was down the street so I went down there every other lunch break to grab a chicken bake.
+Sunday shifts. No one ever called. I could go for almost an entire hour with not receiving a phone call. Most of the e-mails would be replied to before 3, so it was just sitting around for the rest of it.
+DeVaughn and Ian Wilson. These co-workers are brothers and they worked Sundays with me so I actually got to know them pretty well.
+Michael was one of my supervisors and is the same age as me.
+Working within a mile of three different bike shops. It just made things so convenient.
+Ridiculous e-mails were the best. Seriously, some customers are just so mad in their e-mails that it's really hard to take them seriously. When the Food Network changed their site, some old man sent an e-mail saying that it us "fucking young folk" changed the site just so old people couldn't use it.
+Nice old ladies over the phone were usually the easiest people to deal with but it was the hardest thing having to explain that cookies have to be enabled to use our site.
Bad Memories:
-Stupid customers. Seriously, there were some really dumb ones. I don't know why some people thought they could just return an item they bought at Wal-Mart to us.
-Insulting customers. The worst was usually when they thought I was some foreigner and didn't know anything. Seriously, some lady asked me if I ever learned where Texas was growing up whereever she thought I was from.
-Traffic on the way home.
Anyway, this ends a busy, four month chapter of my life. It's weird to think that my time spent there was so short, but it makes sense with how much I've done. Luckily, I bought Super Smash Brothers Brawl for my Wii to take up all the free time I have.
-Joseph
Chris: Mom, you have any money?
Mom: I have ten dollars in quarters.
Chris: Uh... give me two dollars in quarters.
So I had my last day at Cooking.com. I guess I never really explained what I did there. Cooking.com is an online retail store for cooking supplies. Cooking.com actually runs a number of other online retail sites including the Food Network Store, the Starbucks Store, KitchenEtc.com, the Pillsbury Store, and the Betty Crocker Store. I worked as a customer service representative, basically just answering phones and responding to e-mails. It's not like I had to really learn anything about cooking or anything. If someone asked me a question I didn't know, then I'd put them on hold and google it really fast or just tell them to call the manufacturer. The office was a pretty friendly environment. For some reason, my nick name was Mario Lopez. I actually surprised a girl after a whole month of working there when I told her my real name. So I made two lists to sum up my experience at Cooking.com, one for the good and one for the bad.
Good Memories:
+Working with Christina.
+Chicken-bakes. Costco was down the street so I went down there every other lunch break to grab a chicken bake.
+Sunday shifts. No one ever called. I could go for almost an entire hour with not receiving a phone call. Most of the e-mails would be replied to before 3, so it was just sitting around for the rest of it.
+DeVaughn and Ian Wilson. These co-workers are brothers and they worked Sundays with me so I actually got to know them pretty well.
+Michael was one of my supervisors and is the same age as me.
+Working within a mile of three different bike shops. It just made things so convenient.
+Ridiculous e-mails were the best. Seriously, some customers are just so mad in their e-mails that it's really hard to take them seriously. When the Food Network changed their site, some old man sent an e-mail saying that it us "fucking young folk" changed the site just so old people couldn't use it.
+Nice old ladies over the phone were usually the easiest people to deal with but it was the hardest thing having to explain that cookies have to be enabled to use our site.
Bad Memories:
-Stupid customers. Seriously, there were some really dumb ones. I don't know why some people thought they could just return an item they bought at Wal-Mart to us.
-Insulting customers. The worst was usually when they thought I was some foreigner and didn't know anything. Seriously, some lady asked me if I ever learned where Texas was growing up whereever she thought I was from.
-Traffic on the way home.
Anyway, this ends a busy, four month chapter of my life. It's weird to think that my time spent there was so short, but it makes sense with how much I've done. Luckily, I bought Super Smash Brothers Brawl for my Wii to take up all the free time I have.
-Joseph