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I was doing a double at Brunswick Street today, so on my break I went to N2, which Chris the kitchen hand had told me about. Basically it's an ice cream parlour that does gourmet flavours, and uses liquid nitrogen to freeze the ice cream. Unfortunately they had sold out of the white choc macadamia and green tea fudge I wanted to try, so got the crème brulee flavour instead- custard ice cream with a burnt sugar topping- which I had seen people eat on the tram before and wondered what it was. It was ok, but I wasn't blown away with the flavour (I think it's probably quite hard to make an out of this world vanilla flavour) but it was quite interesting watching them make it wearing their goggles.
When I got back to work I realised I had left my phone there, but luckily had enough time to go and retrieve it.
Quite early on in my shift, a man brought a drink for $4.50 with a $100 note, and when I gave him his change, he wanted to swap some of it for 3 x $20 notes, and then kept wanting to swap more of it, and take money back which I suspect he was doing to confuse me, which worked as I counted the till afterwards and discovered he had swindled $150 out of me.
To make matters worse, I kept getting prank calls from a guy called Jimmy. He had called during the lunchtime shift to make a pick up order of 3 potato cakes and large chips with extra salt because last time "there wasn't any f***ing salt on them". When I asked for his contact number, he asked me for my number. He sounded like he was with lots of other youngsters who were laughing in the background so I said to Birren it sounded like it might not be a genuine order, so he said he wouldn't start cooking them until they came in which sure enough they didn't. In a later call, he told me I was a stupid, dumb English, and another he questioned why whenever he rang I was putting him on hold, saying I was trying to pretend we were busy (when I had a constant queue of people coming up to order). He called to apologise, which I thought was quite nice, until his stupid girl mate called up and was talking in a really stupid voice saying she wanted to apologise for her friend Jimmy, and saying "oh my god" in a really annoying way. I think she was trying to do an English accent but it sounded more American.
When I cashed up, I decided I'd pay the difference on my card, for peace of mind as I know I'd just be stressing about it if I didn't, but when I told Dinesh (because he asked if I had left a note explaining what had happened_ he rang Patel, who told me to put me on. I ended up bursting into tears- very embarrassing in front of Avery and Chris! Patel is going to speak to Vicki because he said I didn't need to pay it but wouldn't understand that I wanted to pay it to relieve my stress.
When I first started, I had been given a document about how evening staff could claim a free drink, which I hadn't had confirmed yet, but Chris said we were entitled to one so took advantage of it by taking a Pacifio beer- I felt like I needed one!
When I asked Joe, the landlord, if Alice had found my rent money, he said no, so I said I'd go and find it. When I looked, it had gone, so thought I had had that stolen, as well as losing out on the $150!
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