Saturday, October 27, 2012

My two jobs and the plusses and minuses of both...

Job number one...  I'm a server in a restaurant..  Not just any restaurant..  I'm a server at Bob Evans.  I'm not terribly scared to post where I work on here because there's only a handful of people that read this.  And even if someone randomly does happen upon my meaningless blog and read it, won't ever comment.  So back to the subject at hand.  I like talking to and serving strangers.  I also like serving my friends that have no clue what a really fuckin awesome server I am.  I won't at all say I'm perfect or that I'm the best employee but I will say I am a pretty good server.  I'm fast and I make people happy.  Of course it makes me a harsh critic when I go to other restaurants.  Like last year after the haunted catacombs we went to denny's and it literally took the server 10 minutes to get out drink order and bring it back.  In a full restaurant I could see maybe five minutes but there was only one other table in the joint.  My comment..?  "this place is a dump."  haha  But yes I get to handout with and talk to people all day long.  Some totally interesting and some, not so much.  But for how much I don't like people, I enjoy my job of interacting with people.  My second job is I'm a Barista at SPoT coffee.  Again, I don't really like people.  But there's something about both jobs that I like..  Maybe it's just my ego wanting to showoff my skills..  Being in that spotlight, my faith is renewed when people are genuine or do/say something I don't expect.  The minus of it is that it's so unpredictable which can still be a plus.  I mean it could be slow so the manager will cut the floor so there's maybe 4 servers but then the restaurant will get slammed.  The plus of that is that we can make some money fast and nasty.  The minus is that it tires you out really fast and sometimes it can get overwhelming for even the best servers.  And, when that happens...  When the shit hits the fan.  There's only one person to blame.  The manager.  It comes with the territory.   It should probably be in the job description.  haha.  Well long story short my strokes two things for me.  My ego and my love of money..  BOOM!  g'nite..

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