In honor of the bouquet that was sent to me on what was supposed to be my first day of work two weeks ago, please see it here. It's a beautiful bouquet sent to me by 'George Gordon', a famous poet, who also supplied me with some good advice. Do you know who he is? Most people know him by an entirely different name. No fair looking it up on the internet!!
So first thing was to come into the store and I ended up reading a lot throughout the day. I meant Jenny* who I will be working with in the new store when it opens. She is really nice, an art student who will be going back to school full time in October. The person I will be working with for the next few days, Vicky*, and another girl that works there are kinda like perky cheerleaders... which was a little annoying.
Vicky is training me and is pretty anal about rules, not completely bad, but annoying. When I was leaving I asked if I could make my own drink before I left or if I needed to have them make it instead. Her response was 'well normally you have to walk around and ask us from the other side of the counter, but this one time you can make it'. I can't really immitate the tone of voice on the web... but it was odd because I (obviously) don't know yet and that's why I asked. Just tell me what you want me to do!!
They did make me try a 'whole bunch' of things I don't like: blueberry muffin and the new Strawberry Creme 'Frozen Drink'. But I survived... and if anybody likes strawberries they should really check out that new 'frozen drink', it's great. I was able to make drinks today, mostly the frozen ones since they haven't trained me so much on the espresso machine.
Overall the day went well, I met with my 'to-be' store manager again and found out some great stuff about the store, we will have hardwood floors and be almost of the the biggest stores around. We are also a 'proto-type' store where we will be getting a lot of visitors which is good because we can show how great we are. All of the baristas working in the new store are going to be new employees which will make it challanging to get running smoothly... but what is life without challanges??
*Names have been changed to protect the innocent... and not so innocent.
Posted by 10lees at June 28, 2004 08:46 PM