i know i have recently been complaining quite a bit about my current job. but now it's time to evaluate my other job, the one in the bar. sunday i spent the best part of an hour sorting straws. yes, this is not a joke. someone had the glorious idea to put all the straws the right way up and the wrong way into their containers. now that's a biiiig problem. i know know it sounds ridiculous. but you try serving hundreds of poeple in the automated sort of way that your used to and then suddenly something (something quite easily avoidable) is changed. it throws the whole routine. it's quite amazing actually to see how used we get to certain 'ways of doing things'. so, cos friday and saturday night everybody was really irritated by the whole straw issue i thought it might be a good idea to just take the time and put the damn things back in place. not that i had anything else to do. so, there's me spending quite some time putting things right, i go on my break, come back, and the same idiot filled the containers up again, with the straws...you guessed, the wrong way. i mean, honestly...little things that make life that little bit more annoying.
oh, nd there are things that make life quite a lot more annoying. saturday night one member of our staff apparently had a smoke in the staff toilets, which is not allowed, especially not when you are on shift. not that i really care whether anybody is having a fag, but unfortunately that cigarette led to an evacuation of the building, cos the fire alarm went off. obviously nobody volunteered to stand up for it and now there's gonna be some investigation and we are going to loose our staff room. great.
and else...the damn thing is still working, my wrist is still blue-purple-ish and my day-job is still boring the life out of me. so, all well.
