11/5/22

Today was kind of a crazy day. Last night I was up kind of late watching Menace II Society and apparently I didn't plug my phone in or set an alarm. I woke up at 11:30 and I had work at 12. It was really lucky I didn't sleep in 5 minutes longer. I brought a car charger with me to plug my phone in on the way. Also, on the way to work I passed this car on a curve and almost hit a semi, which was probably one of the stupidest things I've done, but the car in front of me was going so slow.

I got to work on time with my phone on 5 percent. There were 4 SAs on today and I really don't know why. It was me, Tristian, Jashauna, and Zariya. The last two were new and Jashauna was still training. We did not work very well together. The new ones didn't know what they were doing and not marking tables when they sat people, not folding the menus correctly, putting us on a wait when we didn't need to be on one, and other stuff. I really didn't mind any of this, but Rich was getting really mad. We ran out of silverware so I went to tell him and he was like, "Today I've learned none of you know how to do anything blah, blah, blah, so maybe some of you will be able to roll silverware." So I went back to the 60s and rolled up some silverware. I kind of started talking to the Zariya girl and learned she was easy to talk to. Rich had the SA's pick numbers to see who would go on break first since we were all splits. I got the closest number but chose to take my break last.

On my break I went to Sam's. On the way there I saw Aiden and Ava at Olive Garden getting in their car so I sent a picture of them to Aiden like a stalker. At Sam's I got a pretzel and a brownie sundae. I had to leave pretty quickly because I was supposed to be back at 5. I didn't even finish my pretzel or sundae and left them in my car.

When I got back into Red Lobster, I found out that Aiden and Ava were eating in here instead of Olive Garden because they said the wait was too long there. So I talked to them for a bit and Ava hugged me before they left. It started to get pretty busy at around 5:30. This was when Zariya and I actually started talking. Usually it takes me like, 3 months of knowing someone to talk to someone openly, but for some reason I could just talk to her. Rich then gave us SA's certain jobs so we wouldn't mess up as much. I would take down names and put people on the wait list, Tristian would clean tables, and Zariya would seat people. That worked out pretty well, even though I kind of felt bad for Tristian because he was obviously doing more work. We were talking the whole time up at the host stand. She kept making fun of me for not know anything about Beyoncé and for going to Saxony, but I was making fun of her for having no idea what she was doing. After Trusty Tristian got cut, Zariya and I were cleaning off the tables in the 30s and I decided to get cocky and pick up two trays at once. This part makes me cringe, but I almost dropped one of the trays as I picked it up and I screamed for some reason and a lot of people looked at me. I made it to the kitchen with both trays but as I was about to sit them down at the dishwasher a plate fell off the tray and shattered. So I had to clean that up and that was my first dish I've broken. It was kind of embarrassing, but yesterday I heard at least three things shatter in the kitchen so it's not uncommon. Zariya said she was leaving at 9:30 but stayed a while after to help me close. Next week I'm not scheduled to work with her and I'm kind of scared I'll never work with her again.

Tonight was really good and it didn't even feel like I was at work. It just felt like I was hanging out. 7/10.