Tues, 2 Sep 2008
Can't remember much about work two days ago as I didn't blog it, shall not bother to go and remember either. However at 4pm+ while the rest were having their break, Hadi asked me to do something crazy. He wanted me to pretend to be his manager and call up his friend A, in order to get friend B's number. So my script was this, Hadi had not went to work for 4 days, was uncontactable, I would just say I had my ways in getting friend A's number and through our casual conversations I learnt about friend A and B.
The person who answered the call said that friend A was not around, so I gave him the restaurant's number as per Hadi's instructions. Friend A then called back at 7pm+ and said that she could not give me friend B's number. By the end of the night Hadi had received over 4 calls from the concerned friend A.
Wed, 3 Sep 2008
Short outing with she-who-shall-not-be-named. Ni zhi dao wo zhi dao jiu hao le, bu yao xie le. (Kinda tired from work.)
After getting home I spent the rest of the day playing dota, it was fun.
Thurs, 4 Sep 2008
There were two new staff (C and D), they had worked before but I was off on that day so I didn't see them. C was taught things to do as a bartender by Swee Kean like blending of fruit juices, dispensing beer and other bartender procedures while D was up the stairs guiding customers in. Heard that C's from Malaysia and D's from Mongolia.
I myself was stall runner (serve chicken rice, prawn mee, wanton noodle and laksa) and it was of course manageable, nothing special happened except that I kept forgetting garnishes like laksa leaves for laksa and "cong1" for wanton soup. When I was refilling the black soya sauce + chilli sauce + ginger (as I was free), Bernard told me to help out in the stations instead as there were still a few left. Indeed my thinking at that point in time was to slack a bit as the others could handle it.
Then one of the worst things which can happen happened, Michelle asked me to go downstairs to take stock with her and she said it would take 3 full big trolleys. The 1st trolley containing 20 boxes of aqua mineral water bottles (24 in a box) and 15 boxes of 100+ (24 in a box) was so heavy that I could barely push it, in addition the wheels made it slant to the left. When I did make it from the storeroom to the lift, I left the trolley there and went upstairs to ask John to help me. We unloaded the 100+ so that the lift wouldn't give the overloaded sound (as the weight would be centralised). Once upstairs Liang Yong was kind enough to help me carry it up the stupid step (where the doors separate restaurant and kitchen) upon seeing that I was semi-exhausted.
After unloading the 1st trolley Michelle arrived with the 2nd one containing 9 barrels of Carlsberg and the 100+ and she pushed the 1st one back downstairs while I did the unloading again. When I was done with the 2nd I went downstairs to pick up the 3rd and final one with her, which had miscellaneous items like bottles of tomato sauce, chilli sauce and fruit juices.
I was exhausted at the end and hoped to recover quickly in order to survive the night. Before the break I talked to Violet (a cashier( about Peter C's complain last Sat as I felt guilty and explained that I was the one who "made" the 2nd wrong order, it's a long story. She seemed okay about it and then I explained to her about the education system in Singapore.
Anyway during the much needed break, I was disappointed to see that the fries and fish cutlets we ate earlier during lunch (before I started work) had been changed to cabbage, another vege which I don't know the name of and normal fish. I only ate rice with curry to fill my stomach.
Back upstairs staff for Fuurin Japanese restaurant were walking in and I noticed a new girl (very chio). I asked John who she was and he said that she had worked there before on buffet nights (Wed and Thurs) and exaggerated that he wanted to marry her. Later on she came out of Fuurin to serve plain udon (made in Fuurin) to a customer seated in Lakes Cafe and she approached me and John without warning. I instinctly stepped backwards and bumped into John who was behind, she said that the customer wanted more chilli sauce before heading back into Fuurin. Me and John were laughing that I had bumped into him and he didn't avoid me, as we were too focused on her. Then again right now I have no idea how she looks like, it all happened within seconds. Throughout the night I stole far glances at her while being kept busy by the dinner crowd.
For the night, new staff C (dunno her name) was to be bartender and Haley (D) to be beverage runner. John and Hadi laughed at how Haley had given the smaller thinner straw for chin chow instead of the bigger more suitable one. Fact was that I told her what glasses to use for chin chow but forgot to tell her about the straw and thus she made the mistake, sorry Haley. We were all newbies once, hope she didn't take it too seriously, just like how Debbie and I laughed the same incident off.
Near 9pm Hadi and Pauline were missing most of the time and I had to do a lot for station C and A. I did leave station B to them as the family of one of the country club's top executive (if not top) Peter Kwee was having dinner and we could afford no mistakes.
What a day full of mistakes, shall try to be more alert and awake tomorrow. (Hope that that girl will be working again, although highly unlikely.)