For those of you who are curious as to how my job is going...

May 13, 2008 01:27

[00:39] LeSeptieme: I had no idea I'd have to take written tests in order to be a waitress.
[00:39] MakainoSasayaki: Meep @__@
[00:39] LeSeptieme: And there's a cumulative test at the end; can you believe it?
[00:39] MakainoSasayaki: Wow
[00:40] LeSeptieme: I'm going to faaaaaaaail the one tomorrow because it's like half the menu.
[00:40] LeSeptieme: And I'm convinced the MCP runs our computers. Just convinced.
[00:40] MakainoSasayaki: Meep @_______@;;;;
[00:40] LeSeptieme: Because the burritos aren't in the Fajita section, OR the Entree section, OR the specials section.
[00:40] LeSeptieme: Where are they?
[00:40] LeSeptieme: The "Arizona Store" section.
[00:40] MakainoSasayaki: ... WTF
[00:40] LeSeptieme: ...we're not in Arizona.
[00:41] LeSeptieme: Thank you, Corporate, whatthebloodyfrack.
[00:41] MakainoSasayaki: That's confuuuuuuuusing
[00:41] LeSeptieme: And Carne Asada and Shrimp? Is abbreviated STK/SH.
[00:42] MakainoSasayaki: I remember you telling me that
[00:42] MakainoSasayaki: ... and the previous one I think lol
[00:42] LeSeptieme: And soft tacos all start with FLT instead of the rather logical T or TC.
[00:42] LeSeptieme: For Flour Tortilla.
[00:42] MakainoSasayaki: lol
[00:42] LeSeptieme: Instead of, y'know, TACO.
[00:42] MakainoSasayaki: ... well that doesn't not make sense
[00:43] LeSeptieme: I remember it because if you change the letters around it spells FTL.
[00:43] LeSeptieme: :D
[00:43] LeSeptieme: And there's no Taco section.
[00:43] MakainoSasayaki: lol
[00:43] LeSeptieme: The tacos are either under the Fajita section or the Specialty section.
[00:43] LeSeptieme: TACO =/= FAJITA.
[00:44] MakainoSasayaki: yeeeeeah
[00:44] LeSeptieme: Fajita plates will burn your hand if you're not careful.
[00:44] LeSeptieme: They come in iron skillets. :3
[00:44] MakainoSasayaki: They do that at several places here
[00:44] LeSeptieme: And then - best abbreviations ever - we have a Border Smart menu, which is lower calories and healthier choices and stuff.
[00:44] LeSeptieme: The abbreviations for that menu all start with BS.
[00:45] MakainoSasayaki: lol
[00:45] LeSeptieme: So we have BS FLT CK and BS SALMON and stuff like that.
[00:45] LeSeptieme: ...the first one is chicken soft tacos.
[00:45] LeSeptieme: Served with salsa fresca and a lime and cilantro and something else I'll likely never order.
[00:46] LeSeptieme: I'm going to a Mexican restaurant, I want meat and cheese and possibly some sort of beans and guacamole. Don't give me this rabbit food.
[00:46] LeSeptieme: DO I LOOK LIKE A MEXICAN RABBIT.
[00:46] LeSeptieme: ...although it occurs to me that rabbits don't eat chicken.
[00:46] MakainoSasayaki: lol sounds to me you're learning the menu better than you think you are
[00:47] LeSeptieme: I hope so.
[00:47] LeSeptieme: Though I screwed up a few times tonight. XD;
[00:47] MakainoSasayaki: ^^
[00:47] LeSeptieme: "Refried beans or black beans? :D"
[00:48] LeSeptieme: "Um, Kat, the Big Borderrito doesn't come with beans. It has beans in it. It comes with a salad."
[00:48] LeSeptieme: "...OH."
[00:48] LeSeptieme: "What kind of dressing would you like on the salad?"
[00:48] MakainoSasayaki: oops ^^
[00:48] LeSeptieme: "What do you have?"
[00:48] MakainoSasayaki: lol
[00:48] LeSeptieme: "Ranch, jalapeno ranch, balsamic vinaigrette, honey mustard...um..." *LOOKS OVER AT TRAINER LIKE "HALP PLZ"*
[00:49] MakainoSasayaki: ^^
[00:49] LeSeptieme: "*rattles off dressings effortlessly*"
[00:49] MakainoSasayaki: ^^;;;
[00:49] LeSeptieme: "*grins like moron*"
[00:50] MakainoSasayaki: I'm sure you'll be able to soon too? XD
[00:50] LeSeptieme: I sure hope so. XD
[00:50] LeSeptieme: And I'm seriously only the third or fourth person who's been trained on this program. Corporate just laid it out and it's brand new.
[00:51] MakainoSasayaki: Ooo I see
[00:52] LeSeptieme: So not only do I not have any idea what in hell I'm doing, but the trainers are still trying to figure it out too.
[00:53] LeSeptieme: Every once in a while, I'll look at the written test and go, did we even go over this? What the hell?
[00:53] MakainoSasayaki: XD fun times
[00:53] LeSeptieme: And then I'll ask my trainer if we went over pivot positions or the price of the Borderita or whatever, and they'll go, "...no we didn't. Let me go check."
[00:54] LeSeptieme: Seriously, my trainer this morning had to go look up the price of the Borderita because the test wanted to know it and neither of us had the answer. XD
[00:54] MakainoSasayaki: oops lol
[00:54] LeSeptieme: $7.49. Evidently Sauza Conmemorativo and orange cognac are just that good.
[00:54] LeSeptieme: ...why do I know that.
[00:55] LeSeptieme: Question: What's in the house margarita? Answer: BOOZE.
[00:55] LeSeptieme: Question: What's in the Borderita? Answer: REALLY GOOD BOOZE.
[00:55] MakainoSasayaki: lol
[00:55] LeSeptieme: Question: What's in the Margarita Gold? Answer: GOLD BOOZE.
[00:56] MakainoSasayaki: hahaha
[00:56] LeSeptieme: ...Jose Cuervo, actually.
[00:56] LeSeptieme: Okay, I'm not legal to drink but I remember my margahoochies. I'm definitely legal to order food, and I can't tell you where the goddamn tacos are.
[00:57] MakainoSasayaki: lol 21
[00:57] LeSeptieme: A year from Saturday.
[00:57] MakainoSasayaki: hm?
[00:57] MakainoSasayaki: we can drink when we're 19 here :D
[00:58] LeSeptieme: Oh, and we've got several kinds of tacos: chicken, beef, chicken AND beef *ooh, ah*, vegetable, carnita (pork), fish, and brisket.
[00:58] LeSeptieme: OF THESE TACOS.
[00:58] LeSeptieme: The fish tacos are the only ones that start with T. They're seriously T-FISH.
[00:58] MakainoSasayaki: lol whut
[00:58] LeSeptieme: And the brisket tacos are special.
[00:58] LeSeptieme: They're all the way over in ARIZONA. AGAIN.
[00:59] LeSeptieme: Special import, that.
[00:59] LeSeptieme: Over with the Enchiladas Suiza and every gorram burrito we serve.
[01:00] LeSeptieme: And the burritos are just special. Both my training book and my abbreviation cheat card (I love that thing) have them starting with BURR. BURR BF, BURR CK, BURR VEG, you get the point.
[01:01] LeSeptieme: So I'm doing a practice ticket and it says put a beef burrito on it. BURR BF, right?
[01:01] MakainoSasayaki: XD
[01:01] LeSeptieme: Nope.
[01:01] LeSeptieme: In the computer they're under CLS BURR BF - classic burritos.
[01:01] MakainoSasayaki: Whuuuuuuuuuuuuuut
[01:01] LeSeptieme: I swear I stared at that computer for ten minutes.
[01:01] LeSeptieme: Before going over to the bartender and going MERLIN WHERE ARE THE BURRITOS ;_;
[01:01] MakainoSasayaki: Whoever thought these up should be like... shot
[01:02] LeSeptieme: SERIOUSLY I CAN'T FIND THE BEEF BURRITOS AND I FEEL LIKE A MORON ;______;
[01:03] LeSeptieme: So then he comes over to the computer and shows me and explains it, and I just kinda stared, expressed rather frustrated feelings, thanked him profusely, and went back to my practice tickets.
[01:04] LeSeptieme: YOU REALLY ARE A MAGICIAN, MERLIN, AND YOU MAKE A GREAT MARGAHOOCHIE TOO. THE LADY AT TABLE 22 SAYS SO, AND HERS IS CERTAINLY BIG ENOUGH.
[01:04] LeSeptieme: You could seriously fit your head inside one of those 18 oz glasses.
[01:04] MakainoSasayaki: o.O
[01:05] LeSeptieme: ...okay, maybe not your head.
[01:05] LeSeptieme: But they're still damn huge.
[01:05] LeSeptieme: You know that beeping a truck makes when it backs up? I feel like I need that sound effect when I walk around with the 18 oz Borderita.
[01:06] LeSeptieme: And then I saw someone serve three of them.
[01:06] MakainoSasayaki: lol
[01:06] LeSeptieme: At the same time.
[01:06] LeSeptieme: And the bartender can hold four in one hand.
[01:06] MakainoSasayaki: lol
[01:06] LeSeptieme: And I'm just kind of like, "...I'm going to die. Oh holy cow. This is insane."
[01:07] LeSeptieme: ...but I like making tortillas.
[01:07] LeSeptieme: We make our own tortillas and it's fun.
[01:07] MakainoSasayaki: Nice XD
[01:07] LeSeptieme: Although everybody shows off their burn scars from the tortilla machine and it kinda worries me. XD
[01:07] MakainoSasayaki: lol
[01:07] MakainoSasayaki: one of our favorite places for texmex has one .. soooooo good *A*
[01:08] LeSeptieme: "Yeah, totally got this back in the summer of '95." "This store wasn't open in '95. YOU WEREN'T OLD ENOUGH TO HOLD A JOB IN '95." "...Yeah, but it sounded good."
[01:08] MakainoSasayaki: lol
[01:08] LeSeptieme: I swear our entire staff is insane.
[01:09] LeSeptieme: But I also believe it takes a special kind of insanity to work in a restaurant, and boy do we ever have it. XD
[01:09] MakainoSasayaki: So you'll fit right in, eh? :DDDD;;;;
[01:09] LeSeptieme: OH YEAH. XD
[01:09] LeSeptieme: I smacked another server in the face with a cloth napkin tonight.
[01:09] LeSeptieme: Twice.
[01:09] LeSeptieme: We get on splendidly. XD
[01:10] MakainoSasayaki: lol apparently XD
[01:10] LeSeptieme: He's one of those guys who messes with people for the lulz. Not in a mean way, just kinda annoying sometimes.
[01:10] LeSeptieme: And evidently I'm not the only one who gets back at him; I was just the only one doing it *tonight.*
[01:11] LeSeptieme: And I walked in on two of the other servers having an impromptu sour cream fight in front of the dessert station.
[01:11] LeSeptieme: ...which was interesting. XD
[01:11] MakainoSasayaki: o.O;;;;
[01:11] LeSeptieme: It was also very short. XD
[01:11] MakainoSasayaki: haaha
[01:11] LeSeptieme: They cleaned themselves up and went to take care of their tables.
[01:11] LeSeptieme: I've got no idea how it happened.
[01:12] LeSeptieme: Just one of those moments where you stand there and go, "...alrighty then," before returning to the business at hand. XD
[01:13] MakainoSasayaki: lol yeah I can imagine
[01:14] LeSeptieme: And I'm probably boring the hell out of you with all this, huh.
[01:14] MakainoSasayaki: lol XD it's okay <3
[01:14] MakainoSasayaki: I'm here spiking the back of Roz's wig
[01:16] LeSeptieme: XD;
[01:16] LeSeptieme: And I'm rambling about tacos.
[01:16] LeSeptieme: ...T-FISH totally sounds gangster, by the way.
[01:16] MakainoSasayaki: yup
[01:16] LeSeptieme: It's like gangster rap tacos.
[01:17] LeSeptieme: Blingfood.
[01:17] LeSeptieme: Get it with a Margarita Gold and you're just set.
[01:18] MakainoSasayaki: XDDDDDD
[01:27] LeSeptieme: ...so yeah.
[01:29] LeSeptieme: Between the specialness of the burritos, the gangster tacos, the Imports from the Faraway Land of Arizona, and the fact that a taquito is no longer a taquito if you put chicken in int...the menu sounds like a bad High School AU Kingdom Hearts fic.
[01:29] LeSeptieme: Please don't ask me why that makes sense in my mind.
[01:30] MakainoSasayaki: lol
[01:30] MakainoSasayaki: okay <3
[01:30] LeSeptieme: All I know is that the burritos are Speshul Snowflakes, the fish tacos are hardcore, and I STILL DON'T KNOW WHY THEY DON'T CALL THEM TAQUITOS.
[01:31] LeSeptieme: "I'd like two chicken Speshul Snowflakes, an order of Gangster, a Transfer Student with the tomatillo sauce on the side, and a side order of whatthefrackery to start."
[01:32] LeSeptieme: "Sure! Would you like some RIDICULOUSLY LARGE BOOZE to go with it?"
[01:32] LeSeptieme: "Sounds good. What kinds do you have?"
[01:33] LeSeptieme: "Well, we have RIDICULOUSLY LARGE BOOZE, RIDICULOUSLY LARGE REALLY GOOD BOOZE, and RIDICULOUSLY LARGE GOLD BOOZE."
[01:33] LeSeptieme: "I'll have the RIDICULOUSLY LARGE REALLY GOOD BOOZE, please. No salt."
[01:34] LeSeptieme: This is going to be my life for the next few months.
[01:34] MakainoSasayaki: haha yeah ^^
[01:35] LeSeptieme: ...and now, for some completely inexplicable reason, chicken taquitos (which are called flautas, by the way, despite the fact that it somehow sounds mildly inappropriate) = Roxas.
[01:36] LeSeptieme: ...I should probably go to bed.
[01:36] MakainoSasayaki: lol maybe? XD;;;

I TALKED ABOUT TACOS FOR AN HOUR. IT'S TIME FOR BED. OR THERAPY. I'M NOT SURE WHICH.

job, lawl, wtf, oh god oh god we're all gonna die

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