It's only been a week since i've updated. but it feels like so much more time has passed. guess i am getting old.
Lots of things have been happening at work. Where to begin? First off, Luisa, the head manager at Rose City, quit. Sunday was her last day. Pretty interesting. she wasn't even leaving cuz she got a better job. she just wanted out. Doesn't that say a lot? so right now we only have 2 of the original managers and one of those is the general manager. hmmm.
Christine, the new bitchy manager is, well you guessed it, a bitch. She was parading around like she was the LAW. She wants everything done her way and it rubbed a lot of people the wrong way. It irritated me enough to just want to tell someone about it, but not enough to really piss me off. Cuz I try to keep in mind that i'm only there for another month. It was also the way she said her commands. very demeaning. acted like we didn't know what the fuck we were doing. and if we don't do something she acts like we didn't know, not that we just didn't want to do it. for example today this lady was trying through the door with a stroller. but i didn't go over there and help her with the door. so after they left, christine told me, "next time if you see someone leaving, open the door for them. especially if they have a stroller." umm. ok. am i a doorman? does it say in my job description that i'm supposed to open doors? i didn't want to do it. besides, she was standing right next to me! which means she was closest to the door. stupid.
then they implemented all these new rules. for instance, we can't clock in more than 4 minutes before our shift is supposed to begin. which sucks for the servers. especially since it helps a lot when the rush starts early. on sunday the rush started before noon when the majority of the servers were supposed to start. so there were 3 of them lounging around waiting to clock in while the 2 guys that were on had to suffer and have a jillion tables. one of the tables actually left cuz no one got to them in time. and of course no one wanted to clock in early because of what christine had done earlier in the week. one of the servers had clocked in 5 minutes early. so christine went and changed her clock in so that she was only 4 minutes early. what a bitch.
some of the other rules, i'm not sure if we're going to be made to follow them. for hostesses they wanted us to open the door for all the people to come in. um, yeah. right. like i'm going to do that. there was another rule, but i don't remember it just yet.
I just don't like how christine always feels like she has to stand behind the host desk when she goes to the front. the phone will ring and she'll tell me to answer. wtf? you're fuckin' standing right there! and how if i'm seating someone and another party comes in, she rushes up there to seat them. we're not even that busy and that party wouldn't have to wait long for me to get back up there. jeez.
anyways. i have great news! my friend, brenda is hapai!!!! yay!!!! finally!!!! i've been waiting for years now! i'm kinda salty though cuz that means she'll have the baby AFTER i move. Why do I always miss the babies? I won't be able to get any baby experience in. boo. but yeah, brenda is my married friend. who i play basketball with, and who was my next door neighbor. she didn't want me to tell anyone cuz it's still early in the pregnancy and a lot of things could happen. she didn't even tell her parents yet. but, as a member of the team she had to tell me so i would quit giving her a hard time. cuz she hasn't played in the past month saying she was "sick." so i've only been able to go to brett and have my little out bursts of "wow! finally! she's going to have a baby!"
christmas is almost here! we got our tree, decorated the house and finished putting up the lights. tonight brett and i spent a good amount of time putting lights on the plumeria trees. my hands and feet were so frozen by the time we were done! but it looks pretty nice. and we have the multi-colored icicle lights on the house. I love those. My dad and I searched for about 2 years for those kinds of icicle lights before I actually found some last year. yay.
I'm just about done christmas shopping. I just need to get a gift for mimi, uncle gary and aunty barbara, brett's parents, my friend's parents, jim's girlfriend, and brett. I have no idea what to get for all of them except brett. I'm just scared to look at my credit card bill. it's going to be kinda big. well, it won't be so bad since my brother owes me money for my parents gifts and my mom's going to go half for van's present and jim's present. but still, it's going to be higher than i'd like.
oh yeah! and rizza, spelled like pizza quit! woo hoo! only thing that sucks is that it may mean more hours around christmas and new years. cuz there's only 3 of us. and i'm trying hard to not work with lena. so far, it's been great, i haven't had to work with her. but that may change. boo. i still have to ask lisa if she can switch with me on saturday. i have to work at 5, but there's grandma and grandpa's going away dinner, and then i have my basketball team's christmas party on that day too. sigh. hope i can make it. we'll see. hope i remember to call her tomorrow.
while brett and i were shopping today, i saw a lot of cool things. almost bought that katamari damacy game.. but i want to spend money on other people so i didn't. damn randi. she let me play it over the weekend and i liked it! we also looked at phones. still not sure if i should just cancel my att and get a new phone when i get to hawaii. i kind of want to cuz there's so many cool phones around. sigh. decisions.
11:22 p.m. - 2004-12-06