armyofwalmart primitive lands a job

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x8834034

You know, I'm still not so sure this primitive's not a mole.

armyowalgreens  (925 posts)      Mon Jun-08-09 06:34 PM
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After weeks of looking, I finally found a job...

I'll be starting as a waiter today. No experience at all. Let's just hope I don't drop a tray of food on anyone.

Best of luck to all who are job hunting. I feel your pain.

First up, the silly primitive:

SoCalDem  (1000+ posts)        Mon Jun-08-09 06:36 PM
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1. Tell your customers it's your first day, or that you're new.

MOST people appreciate the frankness, and will have empathy for you  Good luck to you and here's hoping you get many tips

abq e streeter  (1000+ posts)        Mon Jun-08-09 07:18 PM
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8. Good advice ,I did the same on my first days as a [food and beverage transport technician and got a lot of good sympathy tips. Luckily I also worked for a stoner boss, who not only didn't mind but sometimes ahem, facilitated us working under the influence. It was a popular University area place ,so that fit right in with the clientele. Not really recommending it for a Village Inn.And if you drop something once in awhile, hey, shit happens. Best wishes on good tips and minimal asshole customers.

"Food and beverage transport technician"--now, I like that.

The Rita Hayworth primitive; back when she was a waitress, a cup of coffee cost a nickel, and a doughnut five cents more:

Tangerine LaBamba  (1000+ posts)      Mon Jun-08-09 06:40 PM
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3. Don't take this literally, but BREAK A LEG, kid!!!

You're gonna be great, you'll have fun, you'll make a lot of money, and you're not going to drop a tray of food - not ever.

Got a link to the restaurant's website?

Good luck, army ..............

armyowalgreens  (925 posts)      Mon Jun-08-09 06:44 PM
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5. It's Village Inn.

http://www.villageinn.com/ 

Tangerine LaBamba  (1000+ posts)      Mon Jun-08-09 06:59 PM
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7. HELP ME!!!!!!!

I just started going through the menu - one of my favorite online activities - and I spotted the Pie Of The Day!

Hawaiian Coconut Pie????

I WANT THAT RIGHT NOW!!!!!!

Looks like a great place, army. You're gonna have a grand time.

NYC_SKP  (1000+ posts)        Mon Jun-08-09 11:21 PM
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26. Key Lime. Their Key Lime is the shit!

It's all good, haven't had EVERY pie, but the Key Lime rocks.

create.peace (257 posts)        Mon Jun-08-09 09:15 PM
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17. where? we'll come visit! the villiage inn waitstaff i know at the corporate one in denver get good tips, though they aren't at capacity as much these days.

Uh-oh.

armyowalgreens  (925 posts)      Tue Jun-09-09 12:23 AM
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28. North East Mesa, AZ.

McKellips and Recker.

You know, my fellow alum Skins REALLY should mentor his charges, the primitives, on internet safety.  This is NOT good to say on the internet, where all sorts of jerks and perverts and deviates hang out--Fat Che comes to mind, immediately, and there's some current primitives too.

Lisa0825  (1000+ posts)      Mon Jun-08-09 09:29 PM
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20. DAYUM,,,,, effective website..... I am suddenly VERY HUNGRY!!!

Best wishes to you. I am sure you will do fine

Advice from a former waitress: Whether you **** up or the kitchen or whoever... if it affects the guest, just offer an apology and do what you can to make it right. If they leave happy, nothing else that happened in the meantime matters... in fact, fixing a bad experience can leave a better impression than a flawless experience could.

Staph  (1000+ posts)      Mon Jun-08-09 07:56 PM
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11. Comfortable shoes.

That's the best advice I have -- from a year of waiting tables in college.

Fuss over little old ladies and little old gentlemen. Flirt, mildly. They'll tip bigger that way.

Wander by the table a few minutes after you deliver the food. Don't talk to the patrons -- just catch their eyes to see if they need anything or if the order is wrong. Most folks hate to have their meal interrupted, but like to know that their waitron is available to solve any problems.

Smile. Even when your feet hurt.

What the fudge is a "waitron"?  It reeks of some sort of political correctness.

The salacious primitive:

Selatius (1000+ posts)      Mon Jun-08-09 08:08 PM
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13. I recently found a job busing tables, so I know how it goes. 

I gotta wait until something better comes by.

Now, I find this truly disheartening, the salacious primitive being a busboy.

I hadn't followed the salacious primitive as much as I should have, but got the impression the salacious primitive had at least a Cyrano-level sort of job; the large-proboscised primitive, Oscar Wilde.

panzerfaust  (1000+ posts)      Mon Jun-08-09 09:07 PM
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14. Congratulations

I was briefly a waiter, but switched to being a janitor as they pay was better (not too many tips for a nervous scrawny teenager with glasses) and there was more independence.

Landing ANY job is an accomplishment these day.

Uh, franksolich was under the impression unemployment ended on January 20, 2009.

One wonders what's up with that.  The primitives promised us it would.

The armyofwalmart primitive reports back later, after the first day:

armyowalgreens  (925 posts)      Mon Jun-08-09 11:50 PM
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27. Done with first day...

And there are hot co-workers...

The Kali primitive from southernmost Texas, a second-tier primitive, not to be confused with the Vermontese cali primitive:

Kali  (1000+ posts)      Tue Jun-09-09 02:12 AM
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30. congrats fellow AZ-nian even though you are in the dreaded East Vally. 

Does village Inn still have German Apple Pancakes? (those huge bowl shaped pancakes with apples and sauce and powdered sugar all over them)

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[AllosaursRus]

I'm one of those that hate a waitress coming by every 5 minutes to ask if everything's "OK"? I've even asked them to stop, sometimes in a not so nice a way, if they really get annoying.

[Karin]

I wish Armyowalgreens well.  I myself was a waitress for many years through the high school and college times.  You have be organized, and clear-headed and charming all at once.  My moonbat stepson majored in sociology at SUNY New Paltz.  This qualifies him to perform his current job in moonbatty Boulder, CO:  Saying "You folks ready to order?"

[Ree]

Wonder how long he'll last once he starts spoutin all the moonbat crap?

[jukin]

Having been a partner in a restaurant, I abhor poor service and ToInsurePromptness means exactly what it says. I like to be served from the proper position, I like my meal in good order, I like attentive but not overbearing service.  In short I expect the management and workers to know what they are doing.  If not the management should do more training before having people come out to the floor.

You not knowing your job does not constitute a TIP from me.

[delilahmused]

I didn't realize it was a chain. We have one in Cottage Grove. Second worst restaurant in town. I didn't think it was possible to screw up scrambled eggs until I ate there.

Cindie

[USA4ME]

abq e streeter

...food and beverage transport technician...

I'm not so sure I'd use that terminology.  I will tip a waitress or waiter, but a food and beverage transport techincian sounds like someone who needs to be an hourly or salaried employee, IOW a non-tipping job.

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[jtyangel]

I didn't realize it was a chain. We have one in Cottage Grove. Second worst restaurant in town. I didn't think it was possible to screw up scrambled eggs until I ate there.

Cindie

Cracker Barrel does a pretty good job of that. They've gotten much better, but at one time scrambled and even hard scrambled meant what looked like a chopped up(barely) omelette that was still runny in spots. YUCK.