kellyahern
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Thanks for the pictures, shari
^ I am glad the messages worked out. Odd question.............can you forward them to me? Is that asking too much?
wasn't wooly bully fun?
Just having a realllly crappy day. Drama at work, not good.
Gotta go eat something now.............I have a venti java chip from starbucks with enough whipped cream on it to make me Maybe that will pick me up.
Holding onto Bruuuuuuuuce memories to get me thru the day/
Work drama is always fun There's plenty at my work. You'd think making beautiful pastries for people to eat on a special day in their lives would be enjoyable but to some people I work with the guests that order the stuff we make are the worst people in the world. They pay my bills so the more they order, the more hours I'll get. But to some, it's a chore. I don't get it. Baking has always been my stress reliever so I can't find any reason to have stress while I'm there.
Did anyone have a good day?
I just thought I would ask about the messages, no problem I am a keeper of certain messages.............I still have the message I texted to Schmeg and kariann and another friend after the whole Hawaii broken leg *incident*...........memories.
I would find this enjoyable, too. Do you guys have to deal with guests much, or are they just being miserable for the sake of being miserable?
Did anyone have a good day?
I just thought I would ask about the messages, no problem I am a keeper of certain messages.............I still have the message I texted to Schmeg and kariann and another friend after the whole Hawaii broken leg *incident*...........memories.
Most positions these people have do not require them to be out and about around the resort so they'd have little contact with the guests. Some positions, like my former one, ( I start something new on Friday....long story) required me to make multiple deliveries to the restaurants around the resort so I'd see many guests each day. We're all required to greet and if the opportunity arises, chat with the guests. If we come in contact with a guest and don't follow the proper procedures of dealing with them we could get into huge trouble if that particular guest is one of the multiple mystery shoppers on property at any given time. So......some people can't handle walking down a sidewalk and saying "hello how are you today" and make a huge issue out of it. Personally, I really enjoy being able to be around the guests. I saw a man last week wearing a Minnesota hat so as I walked towards him not only did I say hi but I asked where he got that fantastic hat. Turns out he owns a house on the same lake that my aunt and uncle have their cabin on. I thought that was kind of a small world since there's only 10,000 lakes to pick from. So I had a nice 10 minute conversation with the guy. If anyone from HR or any of the Chefs walked by and saw me talking they would only think I was doing my job by sitting on a ledge and talking to a little old man that walked with a cane and a limp and was thrilled to meet someone from home. We ended our conversation when his wife called him. He said to her "you're never going to believe this but there's a girl from Minneapolis that works here!!!" I told my coworkers and they all said I should have just said hi and kept walking. My Chef happened to be there and he said "good job" after I finished telling the story and then said our jobs are not just about being in the kitchen all day long.
But most of the people I work with graduated from culinary school at 19 and are now about 25 years old and feel "stuck" at the fact that they've been working in their career for a long time now and feel like there should be something else out there for them. These are the same people that laugh that a 32 year old making $40,000 a year would give that up to move back home with the parents, go back to school for 15 months, and then only make a fraction of that just to satisfy a life long dream. They all said they'd take the money and run and would gladly give up the pastry life for something else. So while they're at it....they try to make me miserable each day for coming to work excited to be there, willing to learn, have things to teach them, and give everyone that I see my "Minnesota nice" attitude. They don't like the fact that I actually say "hello how are you" to people that walk into the bakery instead of just asking why they are disturbing us. I work with a lot of really mean people that really don't understand the guest, internal and external, come first. Thankfully my Chef is a really sweet guy that tries hard to keep the peace.
I was only going to give a quick answer. I could go on but I won't. I think I wrote enough
Good lord. Some people have no idea how good they truly have it. You'd think saying hello in passing wouldn't be too much for people who work with food all day.
By lunch time I was ready for a breakdown:
1. I was alone again to unpack, sort, grid, shelve decorate trees answer questions.
(I rode the freight elevator up and down as the stock was in the corner of the elevator. Had a cart and sliced open boxes and found certain needed decor for visual). Stock manager looked at me on the elevator and laughed as she watched the elevator go up and down with me on it. It was kind of funny.
2. Floor plan was not followed by new boss. This caused problems in setting the floor
3. Visual mngr is out on medical so her 2 people are setting the floor and also not following floor plan
4. 7 categories displaced and no home with all that happening.
5. Discussion today between certain people included condescension, tears and drama......that led to me going to ASM and letting them know situation. ASM played mediator.
6. One visual person had to walk away from situation, crying.
7. Misplaced tree ended up shifting to where is was supposed to go by mid day.
Drama before noon. Raging headache. I have help tomorrow, good help.
New boss told me that there has not been one thing that he questioned me doing.......He agrees with everything I have done in my *position* as lead trim processor. That was nice to hear. I am not ever going to take advantage of anything in my job. Do not ever question my work ethic. I may get frustrated and stressed but I am NOT going to purposely screw up or just not do the job. Where am I ahead if I do that? It would come back to bite me on the butt.......it isn't worth it. /rambling, run on journal entry in Randoooom
Good lord. Some people have no idea how good they truly have it. You'd think saying hello in passing wouldn't be too much for people who work with food all day.
ThanksI'm sure your department store has the best trim dept there is! If it's anything like that cute snowman tree you do for yourself at home then I'm sure everything at work looks amazing.
What she said.
I don't know, though, saying hi in passing is challenging