so much to say...
so work had been going really great, we'd been busy and i was making great money!
then december 13 happened. i was on my way to work and was in a pretty good mood, i stopped at the gas station and picked up a bag of those hostess donettes(the chocolate covered ones) cuz i was hungry and i figured i'd get something to share with my co-workers. well i get to work and no one wanted any and that was frustrating...everyone was kinda cranky and that made me cranky. then i get this table and this is where shit kinda hit the fan...i go up to them to greet them and i didn't even get to finish and the old geezer is like "you're not our normal server. where's our normal server?" so i think to myself oh how pleasant this is going to be great, but i bit my tongue and said "who's your normal server?" and he goes "i don't know" and so i reply "well if you don't know i can't go find them, but i will take care of you today" so i take their drink order and their food order and the guy tells me that he wants grated cheese on his pasta, and i explain to him that we don't have grated cheese. and he starts getting very irate with me and tells me "yes you do. our normal server has gotten it for us the last 3 times we've come in" and i say..."sir, we do not have grated cheese. we have shredded and shaved." cuz i'm thinking kraft grated parm the kind that comes in the green can at the grocery store. anyway, his wife cuts in and says well see what you can do. so they get their food and i stop by to see if everything is ok, and the old man just glares at me, and his wife tells me everything will be fine. well one of my managers was making rounds and talking to the tables to see how everything was and stopped at this god awful table and the guy tells my boss that i was extremely rude to them and that they didn't want me to serve them anymore. apparently he wanted the shaved parm. but shaved parm is not grated!!! and you gotta say what you mean or i'm not going to be able to get you the correct item. anyway, i go drop off the check and he tells me to wait a moment and he'll give me payment right now. so he places a $100 bill in the book and says "that's a $100 bill." and i go "thanks. i can see that" and leave to go get his change. but he fucking insulted my intelligence and i got really upset about it and this table pretty much ruined my day. i know that i shouldn't let little things like that upset me but i'm an emotional person...not a fucking robot that can keep a perm-a-smile on and be happy 24/7.
so anyway, the day continues and i was good with all my tables and no one else complained about me and i made decent money. right around the night shift was supposed to start i got a 6 top and a 2 top and i'm serving them and everythings great. i'm talking and laughing with both tables. i go to check on one of my tables and they want more drinks so i go to ring in the drinks and the tables had been transferred to another server and i'd been taken off the floor chart for the night shift. nobody told me anything! i had no idea what was going on. so i go talk to one of my managers and asked if the reason why i was taken off the night shift was cuz my hours were too high and all he could tell me was that he had no idea cuz he hadn't been there during the morning shift. so i go make an attempt to talk to the other managers and they won't let me fucking talk to anyone. so then i start freaking out and my hands are shaking and i'm trying really hard not to cry. i went out and smoked and came back and helped expo all the food that was getting ready to come up. and finally they were ready to talk to me.
i got suspended for not having a positive attitude and having a guest complain, pending further investigation. they told me i'd hear from the GM on monday. well, i was kinda depressed and didn't really want to stay home. actually, it probably wouldn't have been a good thing for me to stay home. so jay took me out to dinner and a movie and then we went out for drinks and met up with our friend jaci(pronounced jackie) and i had one of the most amazing weekends ever. then monday came and it was back to reality.
monday came and went without a call from my boss. so tuesday morning i called and he told me that based on the information he had, he really had no choice but to let me go and that he'd have a final pay check for me by 3pm. i got up and immediately started job hunting...i updated my resume on hotjobs.com and monster.com, i started searching online at places like craigslist and local newspapers. i sent in applications online to a bunch of places, went and turned in about 20 applications in person between tuesday and friday. there was no time to waste. christmas is so close and rent is due very soon. and i was very scared. it's been almost 10 years since i hadn't had a job. and i know that the job market sucks really bad right now.
i was scared but happy. happier then i've been in a really long time. on wednesday after job hunting all day i went out for my friends birthday party at my home away from home...kazmos. i didn't even really care that i didn't have any money. and as it turns out i didn't need money. all my friends were more than happy to buy me drinks or beer. i ended up getting pretty wasted lol. thursday i got up and put my nose to the grindstone once more even though i was very hungover.
once again friday night after job hunting all day i went out once again and didn't spend any money and had a lot of fun. it turned into quite the weekend actually...i left home friday at like 9:30p and aside from coming home saturday night around 10pm to shower and change i didn't actually get home until monday at 5am! some friends of mine were opening up a club on friday night so i ended up going cuz there was no cover, then i got left at the club by the people i'd gone with and met up with other friends and got kidnapped and ended up down in the denver tech center...most of you have no idea what that is, but let's just say it's like a half hour to 45 minute drive all highway...
so while hanging out at this house a little light bulb went off in my head. matt had told me that cuz they didn't have a door person friday night they lost out on a lot of money so he was going to be at the door taking the cover charge from people. and i was thinking to myself that it's his show he shouldn't have to be the door person. so i sent him a text and asked him if he was interested in having me be the door girl saturday night so that he could do his own thing. and he thought it was a great idea. so i ended up working the door at a club saturday night. i was supposed to make $50 but it ended up being really slow and a lot of people weren't willing to pay $10 to come in since there was no liquor...so i only got $20, but $20 is $20 when you're broke and unemployeed.
so today i went down and talked to my landlord and explained my situation to her. and she was very understanding and told me that she wouldn't evict me and that if it went too long without any payment or i got too behind she'd just ask me to move out as long as i agreed to make a monthly payment to her. i'm really glad that i moved into this building. a lot of landlords wouldn't be so understanding. i talked to my grandpa and he's actually gonna send me a couple hundred dollars at the beginning of january to help out a bit. i talked to my mom and she told me that when she starts receiving her ssi that they're going to be sending her a retro check in january and that if i need help still at that point she'll be able to help :)
so today i got a really late start since i spent so much time on the phone. but i went to follow up on a lead i got on friday from this guy that works at dish network. so i go in and the woman sets me up on the computer to fill out my application. i finish that and she gives me a technical aptitude test(which was basically just making sure i knew how to use the VERY basic functions of a computer), i finish that and she hands me a written interview and tells me to answer 4 questions in addition to explaining my past call center & sales experience. she hands me an offer for employment and tells me that as long as my background check comes out ok training starts monday! possibly the strangest process i've ever experienced. she barely talked to me and i have a job hahaha! and since i have no criminal background i should be good to go.
it's the best hours for me too! it's tuesday thru friday 2:30pm - 9:30pm and saturday from noon - 7pm. friday and saturday are casual dress days so you can wear jeans
Yay! i'm so happy...you have no idea!
then december 13 happened. i was on my way to work and was in a pretty good mood, i stopped at the gas station and picked up a bag of those hostess donettes(the chocolate covered ones) cuz i was hungry and i figured i'd get something to share with my co-workers. well i get to work and no one wanted any and that was frustrating...everyone was kinda cranky and that made me cranky. then i get this table and this is where shit kinda hit the fan...i go up to them to greet them and i didn't even get to finish and the old geezer is like "you're not our normal server. where's our normal server?" so i think to myself oh how pleasant this is going to be great, but i bit my tongue and said "who's your normal server?" and he goes "i don't know" and so i reply "well if you don't know i can't go find them, but i will take care of you today" so i take their drink order and their food order and the guy tells me that he wants grated cheese on his pasta, and i explain to him that we don't have grated cheese. and he starts getting very irate with me and tells me "yes you do. our normal server has gotten it for us the last 3 times we've come in" and i say..."sir, we do not have grated cheese. we have shredded and shaved." cuz i'm thinking kraft grated parm the kind that comes in the green can at the grocery store. anyway, his wife cuts in and says well see what you can do. so they get their food and i stop by to see if everything is ok, and the old man just glares at me, and his wife tells me everything will be fine. well one of my managers was making rounds and talking to the tables to see how everything was and stopped at this god awful table and the guy tells my boss that i was extremely rude to them and that they didn't want me to serve them anymore. apparently he wanted the shaved parm. but shaved parm is not grated!!! and you gotta say what you mean or i'm not going to be able to get you the correct item. anyway, i go drop off the check and he tells me to wait a moment and he'll give me payment right now. so he places a $100 bill in the book and says "that's a $100 bill." and i go "thanks. i can see that" and leave to go get his change. but he fucking insulted my intelligence and i got really upset about it and this table pretty much ruined my day. i know that i shouldn't let little things like that upset me but i'm an emotional person...not a fucking robot that can keep a perm-a-smile on and be happy 24/7.
so anyway, the day continues and i was good with all my tables and no one else complained about me and i made decent money. right around the night shift was supposed to start i got a 6 top and a 2 top and i'm serving them and everythings great. i'm talking and laughing with both tables. i go to check on one of my tables and they want more drinks so i go to ring in the drinks and the tables had been transferred to another server and i'd been taken off the floor chart for the night shift. nobody told me anything! i had no idea what was going on. so i go talk to one of my managers and asked if the reason why i was taken off the night shift was cuz my hours were too high and all he could tell me was that he had no idea cuz he hadn't been there during the morning shift. so i go make an attempt to talk to the other managers and they won't let me fucking talk to anyone. so then i start freaking out and my hands are shaking and i'm trying really hard not to cry. i went out and smoked and came back and helped expo all the food that was getting ready to come up. and finally they were ready to talk to me.
i got suspended for not having a positive attitude and having a guest complain, pending further investigation. they told me i'd hear from the GM on monday. well, i was kinda depressed and didn't really want to stay home. actually, it probably wouldn't have been a good thing for me to stay home. so jay took me out to dinner and a movie and then we went out for drinks and met up with our friend jaci(pronounced jackie) and i had one of the most amazing weekends ever. then monday came and it was back to reality.
monday came and went without a call from my boss. so tuesday morning i called and he told me that based on the information he had, he really had no choice but to let me go and that he'd have a final pay check for me by 3pm. i got up and immediately started job hunting...i updated my resume on hotjobs.com and monster.com, i started searching online at places like craigslist and local newspapers. i sent in applications online to a bunch of places, went and turned in about 20 applications in person between tuesday and friday. there was no time to waste. christmas is so close and rent is due very soon. and i was very scared. it's been almost 10 years since i hadn't had a job. and i know that the job market sucks really bad right now.
i was scared but happy. happier then i've been in a really long time. on wednesday after job hunting all day i went out for my friends birthday party at my home away from home...kazmos. i didn't even really care that i didn't have any money. and as it turns out i didn't need money. all my friends were more than happy to buy me drinks or beer. i ended up getting pretty wasted lol. thursday i got up and put my nose to the grindstone once more even though i was very hungover.
once again friday night after job hunting all day i went out once again and didn't spend any money and had a lot of fun. it turned into quite the weekend actually...i left home friday at like 9:30p and aside from coming home saturday night around 10pm to shower and change i didn't actually get home until monday at 5am! some friends of mine were opening up a club on friday night so i ended up going cuz there was no cover, then i got left at the club by the people i'd gone with and met up with other friends and got kidnapped and ended up down in the denver tech center...most of you have no idea what that is, but let's just say it's like a half hour to 45 minute drive all highway...
so while hanging out at this house a little light bulb went off in my head. matt had told me that cuz they didn't have a door person friday night they lost out on a lot of money so he was going to be at the door taking the cover charge from people. and i was thinking to myself that it's his show he shouldn't have to be the door person. so i sent him a text and asked him if he was interested in having me be the door girl saturday night so that he could do his own thing. and he thought it was a great idea. so i ended up working the door at a club saturday night. i was supposed to make $50 but it ended up being really slow and a lot of people weren't willing to pay $10 to come in since there was no liquor...so i only got $20, but $20 is $20 when you're broke and unemployeed.
so today i went down and talked to my landlord and explained my situation to her. and she was very understanding and told me that she wouldn't evict me and that if it went too long without any payment or i got too behind she'd just ask me to move out as long as i agreed to make a monthly payment to her. i'm really glad that i moved into this building. a lot of landlords wouldn't be so understanding. i talked to my grandpa and he's actually gonna send me a couple hundred dollars at the beginning of january to help out a bit. i talked to my mom and she told me that when she starts receiving her ssi that they're going to be sending her a retro check in january and that if i need help still at that point she'll be able to help :)
so today i got a really late start since i spent so much time on the phone. but i went to follow up on a lead i got on friday from this guy that works at dish network. so i go in and the woman sets me up on the computer to fill out my application. i finish that and she gives me a technical aptitude test(which was basically just making sure i knew how to use the VERY basic functions of a computer), i finish that and she hands me a written interview and tells me to answer 4 questions in addition to explaining my past call center & sales experience. she hands me an offer for employment and tells me that as long as my background check comes out ok training starts monday! possibly the strangest process i've ever experienced. she barely talked to me and i have a job hahaha! and since i have no criminal background i should be good to go.
it's the best hours for me too! it's tuesday thru friday 2:30pm - 9:30pm and saturday from noon - 7pm. friday and saturday are casual dress days so you can wear jeans
Yay! i'm so happy...you have no idea!