08/31/2016
Today I was an hour late for work. On assessment day. Yep, Iâm quite honestly surprised they didnât term me on the spot. I woke up at 6:15, exactly the time I was supposed to be at work, so I panicked and called the call in line and they asked when I could get in and I said no later than 8:30, so they said come in. So I came in, and lo and behold, everyone at work thought Iâd called out, not called late, so that was awkward. But apparently my co-trainee also woke up at about 6:10, but she shook her roommate with a car awake and rushed half dressed to work and got there at 6:35, while I couldnât catch a bus until 6:35 and got to work at about 7:35 (which is honestly still much earlier than I thought possible). But there was a mix up with our leaderâs time, so he wasnât there until 6:45, so while I was still late, my co-traineeâs brief lateness was waved due to extraordinary circumstances. So that sucks.
The assessment went well, and I passed - so I am now certified and expected to work on my own. (Yikes!) Weâll see how it goes I guess.
For our assessment we went through each of the positions, so we opened beverage island (mostly my co-trainee) and ran it for a little while, then we did silver stocker, and I got the radio. So we filled ketchup and stocked soda and stocked the beverage case and even filled the outside water. And then another employee came up and asked if I could ask over the radio if she could take a bathroom break, and I hard-core struggled, so she ended up just taking the radio, asking herself, then giving the radio back. We did busser in the Rose Gallery, and the cart was neither a large one, nor one with a radio, so it went pretty smoothly, especially since there were two of us doing it at once. Then we got to filler, and we switched between me and my co-trainee each time. There was one guy who corrected my French pronunciation and I was just like ???? Do you think I know French? Or am from France? If you hear what you think youâre hearing as a dish name, you can just assume that that is what Iâm saying, please. Because I cannot make it sound French even when I try, so...
There was another table that I brought food to that had dishes on the table, but they were sitting down and using their phones when I came up and checked their receipt, so as I said the name of one of their dishes, they said, âCan you have someone come and clear this up first?â *pointing to the dishes at the table* And apparently theyâd sat down at a dirty, un-bussed table, and my trainer didnât let me put the food down on the table before it was bussed, as that is apparently a very serious no-no. Again, yikes. If the table is not yet yours, donât make it seem like it is. It honestly would never even have occurred to me the dishes might not be theirs with the way they were sitting at that table.
One of my coworkers offered me a ride home, and when I got home, my roommate and I went to Publix to check it out. Let me tell you, it is much more reminiscent of Cub than Walmart is, and itâs more expensive, but it has more real food, like produce and dairy and such. I got a honeycrisp apple and it was $2.50 because theyâre currently $4.99/lb (but they werenât priced, so I just hoped for the best). I didnât get a ton, and I finally bought a reusable grocery bag (so I donât have to bring home 9 million walmart bags each trip) and all of my groceries fit in that bag. I also finally bought eggs. And we bought brownie mix and made brownies when we got home, which was heavenly.
