a typical day at work

hello ting ting is back HAHAHA.

im sure u guys are damn interested to know all about my work HAHAHAHAHAA. dun lie, u guys wanna know everything about me. HAHA forgive me for my narcissm. im just kidding lah anyway, this entry is for myself for memories sake.

A TYPICAL DAY AT WORK

I always try to be early.. yeah to catch the . wait i gotta take a shit first brb.

anyway, yeah to catch the shuttle bus cos im too lazy to walk all the way in. have to walk 13 minutes leh to be exact. so long..

so once i reach i will punch my card change clothes and sometimes shit. i dunno why i have so much shit. its like my digestive system works too well. and i dun even eat a lot of bananas leh?

Then after that i will stroll to the cashier area hoping that everyone misses me (im just kidding) and check my stationing. And everytime i work i wish tt i'll be stationed at table 1-7 but my wish hardly ever comes true so i should stop wishing den i would be damn happy if im really stationed there.

so anw i will then stroll to my station again and the first thing i do is to pour a glass of warm water for myself (even if i dont need to drink immediately) i just do that cos its a habit and actually makes me feel accomplished. like wow im so productive, i just reached only and already did sth a.k.a. pour a glass of water. and hopefully the upper management ppl will think im actually pouring the water for customer.

after im done den i go walk around my station and register the customers' faces in my brain (dunno wtf for also) and my workplace is famous for those Sg men to bring china female partners to dine with them. I'm quite sure men who do that cannot find a girlfriend that's why they do that. so when i take their order, i will scrutinize the mens' faces and analyse their behaviour and try to find out what exactly is wrong with them that they cannot find themselves a girlfriend. bald? too stingy? limp dick?

Then its time for lunch (peak period) busy.. or if not, den at least act busy. During this time, someone has to go parkway to da bao food and i will pray tt im not the one cos im too lazy to go out to buy food and still must carry so much stuff. i rather stay in the restaurant and laugh at customers or space out.

after that, the crowd will die down a bit and its time to act busy, while all the while hoping that they will ask me to go for my lunch break.

Lunchtime - go to the VIP room to check out my food and either get a surprise or a heart attack. but most of the time its a heart attack cos u see dog food. like ure so excited cos ure finally having your break so u open your da bao styrofoam box and each time praying it is 1 nice meat and 1 nice veggie. i cannot decide if the da bao person hates me or thinks im easily pleased.

eat finish den slp. no, TRY to slp because my restaurant has this stupid policy to play its own stupid, irritating songs.. the songs are like... hmm i cant find words to describe how stupid it is. oh ok i just came up with 5 words. it is annoying, irritating, a nuisance and irritating. Opps did i mention irritating already? oh yes.. u get the picture now. it is in short, irritating.

and as if tt is not irritating enough, the music i mean noise, is amplified even more in the VIP room so it deafens out your sheep counting so yeah usually, u dont get any sleep. and it sucks more when your customers cant keep their mouths shut when they're having their meals. i mean ok, im fine if u have to talk i do that all the time but u dun have to shout across the table and talk as loud as our beloved huiping rite? hahahha just kidding.

den its time to take a shit. (i told u so) my favourite shitting place is the handicap toilet cos u can have it all to urself and when u shit, nobody but you yourself can hear the 'plop' sound. hopefully it is not taken. den the first thing i check is the toilet seat. it is almost 90% of the time dirty. stained with pee u know u know.

im not sure who the limp dick(s) belong(s) to also. might be someone from the restaurant, might be customer i have no idea. Den i do cleaning myself. yes.. and that is obviously not enough so i stack some toilet paper on the seat to make sure. on some lucky days when it is not stained with pee, i still do the same cos u can never be sure........

den its back to work again. usually at this time its the least busy so i start doing what i do best - acting busy. if not then i check the chopsticks for mould. yeah but usually there are no mould/mushroom/fungus growing on the chopsticks and after i check, it only becomes more dirty from my hands that cleaned the toilet seat.

if not i sit down and fold and cut paper for the tempura food items. and soil those paper again with the hands that cleaned the toilet seat. soon, at 6pm, the crowd comes in.

i dont understand wads e rush. why have dinner at 6pm??? sky not even dark yet. you already have 2 of your meals (breakfast and lunch) when the sky is bright so at least for the last meal, eat when its dark? do u understand my logic??? must balance a bit what.

so then i stop whatever i am doing albeit reluctantly. Put on a smile and serve customers. there are 5 types of customers you meet everyday. 1st is the very likable customers, 2nd is the quite likable, 3rd is the okok, 4th is not very likable and 5th is impossible to like. and den there's also the 6th- dunno whether u should like them a not. i give u example ok. one day, u meet a quite likable customer then 20 minutes later, u pour hot tea on their little boy. hmmm..

after 6pm, ppl just keep coming and leaving, high turnover rate and theres no way u can slack, even if you want to. time passes quite fast.. NOT. only sometimes lah. my favourite thing to do (if i really have to choose) is to serve food cos quite brainless and to take order cos i love laughin at customers secretly. but i hope to meet sweet and likable customers each time i take order. sweet customers think ure cute and 1 of them mistook me for 16 yrs old. " just finish o'levels ah". HAHAAHAHAA ' yeah finish 4 years ago oredi'

wa lau if beesiang works there, den customers will sue my boss for exploiting child labour?

at about 9.30 pm, u will be waiting for management ppl to call on you to start doing your side duties. there are 3 side duties. 1) clean table 2)wash ginger and wasabi containers 3) clean pantry.

no. 1 clean table sounds easy enough.. actually yes cos its quite a brainless task just do everything senselessly. but slowest cos most time consuming. and i dunno why im always stuck with the clean table side duty. everytime i get tt, i start to wonder if i got that duty again because im really good at cleaning tables and do a good job out of it, or issit cos im really bad at it that they think i need more practice.

.... hmmm... till date, i dont have an answer.

anyways, when im done with my duty i will TRY to assist other ppl with their duties and den shun bian go check what leftover food there are. i keep a special lookout for avocado items and fried stuff (prawns/salmon skin/soft shell crab) and my favourite steamed egg.

i eat and then go...... and that's basically my worklife. not very interesting so have to entertain myself at work.

ok im done!

lotsa love ting ting, sincerely, your waitress