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Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Just finished my second day of work at Emerald Hill No. 5! I didn't post yesterday because it was my first day at work, and it would be a little unfair to judge how the job is from 8 hours. Okay, so 2 days isn't a long time too, but what the heck.

All I can say that working there is a really humbling and fun experience. Humbling in a sense that I had to really serve the customers very well, and on hand and foot if necessary, all for the sake of an extra $2 an hour (I believe the average pay for a usual waiter is $5 an hour?) and tips. Okay, for the reputation of the bar too. But it's really a nice feeling when you are thanked and everything, even though sometimes there are assholes like that guy who signed "I Love You" and drew smiley faces on his different payment slips and got everyone in trouble. I also had to do the usual dish washing and garbage throwing, especially when I am new and I can see that I kena extra. But it's really alright because it's taking one for the team!

But I like the humbling experience because it is one of my ambitions to open a nice bar one day and working from the bottom up I can see how things are done in a really popular bar.

Work's fun too because the staff there are really friendly, nice and are willing to teach. I was extremely blur the first day, and yet everyone was still patient towards me. Maybe cause yesterday was a slow day too, Haha. It was one of the staff's last days too, and the bartender slipped in a shot of Bacardi 151 into her drink, and when she wasn't looking, poured a few buckets of water and tomato juice over her head. Ouch.

I think the bar's a really nice place to hang out at, the prices are not that exorbitant (two martinis at $15!), peanuts are free, and it's really cool how they allow the shells to be just thrown on the floor like that. Yeah, at the end of the night the whole place is basically full of peanut shells. Thankfully, the service side is not responsible for the cleaning of that. :P Food looks great too, especially the pizza which is really thinly crusted like those authentic pizzas at Italy. Nice place to bring your date to, guys.

I shall go to sleep and await my day-off on Thursday. ):

[ jason ] | 4:06 am |