Friday, August 5, 2011

Late night come home work sucks I know,

Believe it or not when you ask how long your order's going to take at a Chinese restaurant they wont answer "5 minute!" I'm saying this because I started working at this Chinese restaurant named La's as a waitress a week and a half ago. I'm no longer in training I'm doing my own thing, but I'll tell you the anecdote of how I got to waitress at La's.

The waitress before me had just finished her first day of training and that night she went celebrating. Although she ended up celebrating too hard, she landed a good old hangover. Her neighbor who's also one of the assistant chef's of La's and a good friend of mine, was forced to stay up all night due to the commotion.

The next day (her second day of training) it was nearing 5:30pm and she still hadn't shown up for work, while her shift started at 4:00pm. The waiter (only one male waiter) called her up asking her if she would be in, she responded with "Sorry I just woke up.". With this she calls back a half hour later telling the waiter "I'm sick I can't make it in.", so the assistant chef tells the waiter about the ruckus last night.

I get a call at 6pm I'm taking a cat nap with my hubby, it's the waiter (we graduated together), he asks me if I'm still looking for a job, I respond with a "Sort of." he tells me they need a new waitress stat. I wasn't too interested, so he puts on the assistant chef, he's plea was "Jess, please work here! It's the only time I get to relax. It'd be nice to work with you, and see you more." Still not convinced this went on for a good ten minutes, and so I caved in.

They call back the old waitress and tell her "You don't need to come back to work we've found someone else." I started the next day. The strange thing about this is that I never even put in my resume, just happen to be friends with two of the people who worked there. That's how I landed a job that pays 8.90 an hour. Not much but hey you work for tips.

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