I spend basically every waking minute obsessing over this: If I get the job I think I'm going to buy a bicycle. (There's so many bike trails here, I've lived here three years, I'd really like to know more of the city than just point A to point B by major streets only.) What am I even talking about, I can't possibly get this job. I'd have so much money. And most weekends and evenings off. The "skill test" in the first interview turned out to be counting a register, I do that at least three times a day. If anything, I'm overqualified. Yeah, but is that a good thing? Besides, the job market here is pretty competitive, what if the other candidates are even more overqualified? OH GOD isn't it June 14 yet?

And repeat. I can only hope the other candidates are equally stressed out. Maybe it's some sort of psychological test. Whichever one of us isn't a complete gibbering maniac by the 14th gets the job.
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Fazuul was extra painful this weekend. The main register went out. This meant we had no way to run all the managerial reports. Also, since the other registers communicate with the printer and the kitchen through the main register somehow, the cashiers had to enter the order into the register to find out the total, then rewrite the ticket by hand and give it to the kitchen.

I tried giving the cashiers a crash course in how oldschool waitresses deal with handwritten tickets. (Write the side salad in the lower left corner. The kitchen doesn't need to know that, and you'll just slow them down. Go ahead and abbreviate, but use the same abbreviations each time.) Some of them got it, some of them didn't. I spent a lot of time explaining to the kitchen that "Sal-F Reg Coke" is nothing to them, just ignore it. Well, ok, but then what about the "S-Ranch" on this ticket here?

Sigh. It was probably a really slow weekend, but labor just had to suck because I needed the extra people just to keep things functioning only slightly slower than normal. When Fazuul finally deigns to send us an on-site technician, Area Supervisor will see our stats and be very angry. (And what exactly is up with that? The restaurants have to be open on weekends and holidays. WHY doesn't the tech support staff keep the same hours?)


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