Building Sandcastles

Building Sandcastles
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Monday, August 23, 2010

Day one of Forty hour work week

So...this week at McDonalds, I have fourty hours mon-fri eight hours a day. I didn't know how I was going to amke it. I know, I know, welcome to the life of an adult. But i still don't like to have to be at Mickey D's for eight hors everyday five days in a row.
Last night i was trying to figure out how to change my attitude so that i can actually enjoy this last week before school starts, I came up with I was going to watch for "characters" everyday to come home and blog about.
Sadly, today there weren't really any "characters". Logan actually doesn't have that many that come in. Although we did have mullet man once... We do however have the regualrs, which i've told you about before. Except i'm fianlly starting to recognize them and remember their orders. Pauline for example, she comes in every morning and orders a senior coffee two cream, one splenda a sausage Mcmuffin and a packet of hot sauce. She just walks in now and i put it in for her. I think she kinda likes that we have it memorized.
Today was my first time presenting. I think its funny, i'm pretty sure that my managers dont' realize that they really haven't had me do very many things. I think they liked me on counter because i was good at it. then they realized i've never been trained in the hole, so they throw me back there. And i get good at it. So they forget that i've never been taught to run and that i've never presented. (i actually learned how to run about a month ago..your suppose to learn it right after counter i think. Then they almost never have me run. I am usually on counter or in the whole. they never really put me anywhere else.
So i go in at six this morning and work presenting (where you get your food) for about two hours until they throw me on counter. (we were so dead this morning, it was dumb) then they send me on break at 8:45 (keep in mind i don't get off till two, i don't like that early of a break.) then they put me back on counter and around 10:45 they throw me back in the hole and leave me there. (which is fine by me) Until they send Lupe back to take money. I'm sure she actually is a nice person, but around me she is always a grump. I mean i think she likes grill most (everyone on grill pretty much speaks spanish and she is hispanic) I try to be nice, but she just is grumpy.
One nice thing about today was that the morning manager Bri, (who can be grumpy too) was nice. I had never worked the six before and then she snapped at me about something i had done wrong (and by this time i'm use to it from pretty much all of my managers.) and after she took a park out she came back and said "i wan't trying to be rude, i'm just ornery". (this is the first time she has ever said something liek that to me. although she did smile more this morning.) So that was nice. I've decided i'm slowly growing on the managers. They tend to smile back when i smile at them and i can occasionally get them to engage in small conversations. So we're making improvments. which is nice. :)

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