My Journey,Without Complications

Saturday, November 18, 2006

the salmon couple

They came into the restaurant, and when Jc asked them for drinks, they wanted beer and a warm sake. This is unusual, in the early afternoon? But that's not all, they even asked if there was XO, perhaps they felt as though the alcoholic drinks they're drinking tasted like water. So they went on to order their food after flipping through the menu.

The salmon carpaccio came, and they asked why is the salmon so thin, so the runner told them that dish's salmon was meant to be thin as the expensive and the main factor were the ikuras on the plate.(ikuras are salmon eggs.) So they rogered that and went on ordering more salmon, as though it was buffet. When i took their order, for salmon again, and answered some queries regarding the food, the wife looked at me and spoke. "It's a joy watching you and hearing you speak."
i smiled at her compliment, " i'll go get you your salmon sashimi right now."

The rest of the day was like fighting world war 2 again. I'll buy breadtalk's shares if there's just one saturday night, there isn't people standing like a battalion of soldiers outside the restaurant.

Saturday, November 04, 2006

Computer Knowledge Appreciated

Seriously. I appreciate people who knows how to use a computer, not to the extent of needing to know how to decipher on of the "if else statements", but just simply clicking and using the mouse, without having to key in anything. Work was really taxing yesterday for me. It's weird where the crowd really zoom in from.

I stepped in the restaurant yesterday at 12.30pm for my full shift, and was dreading the fact that ive got to endure a backbreaking 10 hours before going home. So i went in to the washroom to get changed and ready. Then i got the shock, barely 5 minutes and the restaurant was almost full house. The second belt has to be switched on, which was unusual, "saturday afternoons were mostly times where you could smack flies and tak a nap". The crowd just kept coming in and to make things worse, that bloody manager, " doraemon" will do nothing except pushing his shitty chores to you. Bloody hell. Thankfully, the crowd ceased after a couple of hours and i could finally take a breather. I went for my dinner break at 5pm and when i got back to the restaurant at 6, i got another human scare, damn. "What exactly is wrong with the crowd today?!". i thought.

The hours just creeped past me so fast, and jc was in the restaurant battling the crowds with me soon and he said he didn't understand the population crisis in the restaurant then. The crowd was a problem and the manager was a bigger one. The site manager, Kath"cat" replaced that doraemon for evening session and she really wasn't a kitty. She's more like a tiger.Working with her is like playing burnout with infinte Nitro. Sortta taxing but i think i handled the speed pretty well. The customers on the other hand sortta pissed me off. Everyone in the restaurant was busy enough, clearing tables and taking orders for customers whom so happened to get a seat with a faulty computer. So, theorotically speaking, i really wouldn't mind taking orders for people who have troubles using the computer. But for people who knows, and simply just wouldn't understand the fact that we're bloody busy, I really am pissed and felt like pissing in their green teas.

I just stepped out of the kitchen and was holding on to 12 chanwamushis on my arm and there's just some morons who have to stop me and ask me to help them take down their orders when they are seating at a seat with a fully functional computer, and they bloody know how to use it.

Bunch of idiots : " HELLO. i want to take order now"
Me : "Teach me how" i thought to myself. " erm sir, can i get back to ya later"?
and one of them who tried to help.
Angel : " aiya he don't even have a hand to write, we use the com order lah"
Devils: " nevermind lah. He's here mah."
Me: "i'll get back to ya shortly". i'll pour salt and pepper into your ice cream later.But i didn't of course.

Well..this is work. I get all the shit sometimes but well. For the sake of what i'm slogging for, i'll just hafta bite my teeth and get through it.