Sunday, August 06, 2006
Money for nothing - Dire Straits
Aaarghhh.... i'm so pissed! I just watched "The Lakehouse" - due partly to recommendations and mainly on the trailer! What a load of crap!!!!! I just wasted like 1 hour and 35 mins of me life! Sheesh...
OK - since i dun wanna have to 2 movies review next to each other, i'll blog bout it tomorrow. Instead, i'll blog on the wonderful day today - yeah, wonderful until the movie!!!!
Being a weekend, all us temp staff were working today, from 7 am til 3 pm. In addition to the usual cafe duties, there was a women's footie competition goin on and our cafe was setting up a BBQ tent for them too.
But for us at the cafe, business was really slow and well... as Martyn said, we were so efficient that most of the time, we were just sitting around, drinking free drinks and chatting!
Early in the morning, before we opened for breakfast, we were just standing around sipping our lattes and teas. When the breakfast crowd left, we all had a nice sit-down-together breakfast.
Later, after clearing up the b/f stuffs, we just sat around and chat. When our manager saw us, and realised there was nothing to do, she sent us all to the BBQ tent. So off we went, still chatting away.
When we got there, there was nothing to do either. Rose and Kathy sat on the grass, Kevin was busy checking out the girls, Teddy decided to go for a jog (???) while Martyn and i were lamenting the quality of the football that we were seeing!
Seeing there was nothing much to do, we were sent back again to the cafe. But we weren't opening yet so we sat around again and chatted!
Yup, we were being paid 6.33 quid per hour for doing nothing!
But it was really nice - i felt that today, we managed to break free from the usual superficial frivolous chit-chat and got to know each other much better. We talked about our families, our plans for the future, things we did in the past, the pressures we face etc. Oh, some of them finally found out how old i am - you should have seen the way Teddy's jaw dropped when he found out! Earlier, i oso had an interesting conversation wif Kathy bout China and Tien An Men '89, Falon Gong etc.
And we were actually paid for all that! Cool-eh? :-)
OK - since i dun wanna have to 2 movies review next to each other, i'll blog bout it tomorrow. Instead, i'll blog on the wonderful day today - yeah, wonderful until the movie!!!!
Being a weekend, all us temp staff were working today, from 7 am til 3 pm. In addition to the usual cafe duties, there was a women's footie competition goin on and our cafe was setting up a BBQ tent for them too.
But for us at the cafe, business was really slow and well... as Martyn said, we were so efficient that most of the time, we were just sitting around, drinking free drinks and chatting!
Early in the morning, before we opened for breakfast, we were just standing around sipping our lattes and teas. When the breakfast crowd left, we all had a nice sit-down-together breakfast.
Later, after clearing up the b/f stuffs, we just sat around and chat. When our manager saw us, and realised there was nothing to do, she sent us all to the BBQ tent. So off we went, still chatting away.
When we got there, there was nothing to do either. Rose and Kathy sat on the grass, Kevin was busy checking out the girls, Teddy decided to go for a jog (???) while Martyn and i were lamenting the quality of the football that we were seeing!
Seeing there was nothing much to do, we were sent back again to the cafe. But we weren't opening yet so we sat around again and chatted!
Yup, we were being paid 6.33 quid per hour for doing nothing!
But it was really nice - i felt that today, we managed to break free from the usual superficial frivolous chit-chat and got to know each other much better. We talked about our families, our plans for the future, things we did in the past, the pressures we face etc. Oh, some of them finally found out how old i am - you should have seen the way Teddy's jaw dropped when he found out! Earlier, i oso had an interesting conversation wif Kathy bout China and Tien An Men '89, Falon Gong etc.
And we were actually paid for all that! Cool-eh? :-)
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