Here was me thinking since today was Sunday it would be a cruisey day. :shake: Oh lord was I wrong!

First off, I didn't have anyone else in with me supposedly until 12pm when a junior was to come in, then the manager was in at 12:30pm to take over from me, since that was when I was due to end my shift.  We had a 13 sub platter ordered for 11:30am so my manager did extra food prep yesterday to help me out so I didn't have to do much in the morning so I could concentrate on the platter.

I saw all the extra prep she did with my own eyes, and yet when I went in this morning I had a fair bit of prep to do, which was all well and good, I managed to get started early and I even managed to get the platter done in good time.  I had a reasonable amount of customers through during that time, maybe 4 - 6 an hour which is quite busy especially for a Sunday. (Remember when I said they predict that a person is predicted to make on average 10 subs per hour?)

Anyways, my manager rang to ask if I could stay on until 2 as the junior who was in at 12 had been requested to go work at another store, so I said of course (I always want more hours!) But then asked if I'd be by myself until 12:30 when she was due to come in, she said no she'd come in at 12.

I finished the platter by about 10:45am, which was good, I felt much relieved to have that done, and I was about to concentrate on the rest of the food prep, which I'd had to put on hold to do the platter (I'd done the most important things earlier which was good), and I was taking the bread off the bread forms to stack them in the bread cabinet, just before 11am...

From just before 11am I was serving customers straight - in a row until my manager arrived, not on time, not just a little bit late, but over an hour late, and even then I couldn't stop as we both had to keep serving for at least another half an hour.

Between 11 and 12 I made 19 subs myself. Between 12 and 1pm 30 (though 13 of them were the 13 from the platter - these figures were through the till and they didn't come to pick up until after 12). I think Tammy arrived around 1:15ish. Between 1 and 2pm I think we did 32 between us.

I'm glad almost every single customer was very patient with me, they all had to wait as there was only me to serve them.

The only really bad part to the day was a customer who wanted a club. :irate: A club is on special at the moment for $7. A club has 4 slices of turkey, 2 slices of ham and 2 of beef. It's pretty popular and a pain in the arse to make, just FYI lol. But he didn't want ham on it, he wanted the ham to be beef instead but we can't do that. I told him either he could have the club without the 2 slices of ham and only 2 beef, or he could have the extra beef and pay extra money for it.  He then went off at me telling me that he gets it done like that all the time. (Not true.) He said that every other person at the store does it like that. (Not true.) He said that the manager does it for him. (Not true.) I was very polite though adamant, and he was a rude fucker. He told me I was obviously new as everyone does it like that for him and he comes in all the time, but whatever make whatever the hell I wanted.  I told him that I'm there every day and we don't do it like that, and then he went on about how he'd never seen me there before and I was obviously lying. Do I work 7 days a week? No (and without letting me have a chance to mention the fact that I even go there on my days off) he got angry and told me to stop lying, I'm such a liar. :argh: Did I mention that I had 3 other customers waiting while he was being so rude? Who also, were very quiet and obviously didn't feel the need to speak up. :roll:

Unfortunately he handed me a voucher which we aren't supposed to allow on the subs on special, but there was no way I was going to create another reason for him to go off on one! I was having enough difficulty choking back my indignation as it was.

I was struggling /soooo/ hard not to become angry and become very rude to him, including swear words, I handed him his change and told him to have a nice day. On the inside I was like the incredible hulk, but red. SOOOO ANGRY!!! I was so angry I was shaking and it was difficult to go to the next customer and smile and ask what they would like me to make them. It took quite some time for that feeling to wear off. I just wanted to punch him in the face. What an arrogant prick! If he ever comes back again I'll refuse to serve him (providing I remember his face, it's possible I won't - but if he tries it again he'll get the same reaction from me.)  I am such an honest person it is a major insult to me called a liar, not once or twice, but several times - especially when I know for a fact that he was the one lying through his teeth - oooh it makes me mad just thinking about it again!!

At least I got to drive my manager's car to another store this afternoon to pick up some eftpos paper and some bread (we were so busy we almost ran out!). That was a really nice stress reliever after a busy day, and especially cool since I had a dream last night that I somehow got my car back and went driving all over the place in it! :D

I ended up working (officially) until 4pm, but stayed until well after 5 to help get sorted out, the place is probably still a mess! So, yay for more hours at least!

Let's see if I can remember how to do this now...
( See pics! )

It's been more than 3 weeks now since I got it cut short and I already feel like I need it cut again, but then I did when I got it cut medium height as well. Maybe I need to get a pic or two of it without hairspray in it.  Then again, maybe I shouldn't be taking pictures of every hair cut I get. :-p

And not entirely because I haven't had the internet, I mean I was online all the time back before I went to NZ and just couldn't work up the enthusiasm for it. But now I am back online again after months of drought and while I might not post heaps I do plan on posting in here again from time to time! :-)

I've had my hair cut and dyed different colours twice, and I'm liking the easy short hair at the moment, though it took a bit of getting used to. I'm working a full 38 hours this rostered work week which is a big thing for me, I only got about 25 last week and I told my manager that because of the low amount of hours I was going to have to look for another job to supplement my wages.  She understood, but it's not her I have to worry about - she'll give me hours and then the owners look over her rosters and change them. Sometimes I don't know why they bother with some of the things.  It's funny how everywhere you go there are dramas.  At least the people I work with are good sorts for the most part and I get on well with all of them - it really does make all the difference! Of course, if the owners keep going the way they're going they're going to end up with a shop and noone to work in it.  Everyone who worked last weekend got a written warning because money has been going missing for months, and more money went missing, they can't prove who it is no matter what they do, so they gave us all a warning about our cash handling and our safe drops. Which is ridiculous because if you get three written warnings you automatically lose your job.  We're all being punished for something we didn't do (bar one, I presume).

Even the manager got a written warning for leaving the change bag out for me one night - they've taken to locking it up in the safe at night when the manager's not around, which then makes it very frustrating on a busy night when we keep running out of change in the till and have to keep sending a junior to pizza hutt or the newsagent to get some change - they should provide it for us!

Ahh well.

That's all for now I think, prolly have lots to talk about but can't think of anything right now.  Early to bed tonight as I'm opening at work tomorrow and even though we only get paid from 7:30 I and a few of the others get there at 6am to make sure everything gets done so they're not behind for the rest of the day, and I've got two lots of sub platters to make tomorrow, joy! (Working at Subway for those who didn't know already).

Not there yet, spent approximately 11+ hours on a plane from the UK and it's somewhere around 6:30pm in Hong Kong, my flight is at 11:05pm local time so I've got a bit of a wait. I've actually no idea where I'm supposed to go but my stomach needs fuelling and I'd like to see out through some windows at some point too if I can!

Then I've got another 12 and a half hour flight to Brisbane, and I prolly won't get much sleep as they have several interesting in-flight movies...

Oh yeah and I finally managed to ring my brother in the middle of the night for him to see if he wanted anything from the duty-free.

Friday 20^th June.

Sindy had to get up early to go to her seminar but she would be finished around lunch time. I of course could barely move because of my poor legs so I got up around 8:30am, made myself a cuppa, washed the few dishes and then was about to jump in the shower (so I could put some jeans on instead of my shorty pyjamas where my legs were constantly rubbing) but just then Sindy’s brother Robert came home and we started chatting.  He’d brought some rolls home for breakfast so we chatted for a bit. After a while he had to head off to a dentist appointment and I very relieved-ly took a shower.  It’s a bit of a blur now whether I went and met Sindy somewhere, which I /think/ I did or stayed – oh yes, I think I went online and waited for her to come back home, and then we went back to the flat to get our bags and head off to the place where we were to meet our ride to Leipzig. (pronounced Lype-zish).  There’s a really useful website they have there in Germany (and possibly other places) where you can find people traveling the same way you are, and you give them 10 Euros for the trip.  It’s a really good premise I reckon, though I don’t think it’s quite as erm, strict on membership like Couchsurfing is, though you can give feedback on your experience.

 

It took us a little bit to find the place where we were to meet the guy driving us, but we managed it without too much trouble. Then we had to wait for him to find his cell phone. There was another guy traveling with us as well and Sindy and I took the back while he rode in the front.

 

Unfortunately we hit traffic before we’d even got halfway to Leipzig, and unfortunately it was reasonably warm and unfortunately there was no air conditioning in the car and noone wanted a window open (except me :-p) so I was quite warm for most of the trip.  I was quite glad when we had a pit stop at a ‘services’, not sure what they’re called in Germany though. Toilet break and cold drink later I felt much better! What was supposed to be a 2 hour trip turned out to be 3 hours and we didn’t end up getting there until quite late, around 8:30pm.  We were dropped off at the train station and then Sindy and I had to wait for her boyfriend Kilian to arrive. 

 

He arrived at last and then we decided to look around the train station as our train wasn’t due for a good 20 minutes – that place is massive! And! When the train pulled up it was two-storeyed! It was way cool but I didn’t get any pictures as we had to get on fairly quickly but we did sit up top! There was quite a bit of building going on which was quite ugly really and the trip took maybe 20 minutes.  Kilian’s Mum (Sabine) was there to pick us up from the train station in her car and we went back to her place. 

 

Sabine had prepared some food for us which was very nice of her, especially as we arrived so late. I think by the time we got there it must have been about 9pm. We had some food and then sat in the lounge watching the crappy poopy soccer. It only got exciting right at the end. Then we went to bed which was just after 12am I think.  I got to sleep in the loft area, on the third floor.  The room was quite empty and I just had a mattress on the floor but it’s a very lovely house, and Kilian’s about to move back and use that as his bedroom next month

I really /really/ wish I hadn't just looked at facebook just now.  Matt has changed his relationship status to "in a relationship".

I know he didn't really treat me all that well especially towards the end but I can't believe he's with someone else already.  Today is my last half day and I've got enough things to worry about.  I really didn't need this as well. I can't believe I'm still so upset about it but I can't help it.  I wish he'd waited to do that until after I'd gotten on the plane and have no access to the internet for a while.

I know I need to get on with the rest of my life and stop worrying about it but it still hurts...

Day 3.

Oh yeah, I'm not sure when I'll get my pictures loaded up (I took /heaps/ as I was there for a whole week!) but when I do I'll edit them into my posts and then will make a new entry to tell everyone the pictures have been added in. :-)

 Day 2!

Wow, I don't have much time right now but think I might be able to start with the first day, if this old keyboard at the internet cafe I'm at will let me type properly!

How do you cut your post so the large body of your text and photos don't take up massive amounts of space? *blush*

I'm off to Germany today, I hope the boxes I'm arranging to send back to Perth arrive in good time today so I can start packing them before I have to go. Of course, it's almost 9am and here I am still sitting in bed, and I haven't even packed for Germany yet! LOL

Oh yeah, I 'lost' another set of friends yesterday. These people are frigging crazy! Remember Vicki and Lorna the lesbians I went on holiday with last year? (And I've always believed the only reason they invited me was because I had a car) They couldn't make it to the BBQ and on the night sent me a text asking to meet up some other night. I was too busy doing BBQ stuff to reply but saw Lorna later that night on MSN.  They said they were free Monday night and I told her then that it was the night before I was going to Germany and might not have the time, so she said to let them know.  I said I wouldn't know until the day because I've so much to be done.

She texted me yesterday afternoon asking me if I was coming up.  I sent one back saying 'shit, no sorry! Currently washing my car and I've got so much stuff to do and I'm waiting for the guy who's buying my car to come drop off the deposit' (which by the way he DID!!! WOOTS!) Then I get a text back from her; 'Fine your loss. You wanted us to come to party but didn't give us enough notice so we offered to meet up you, you turn it down you lose out' *blink blink* WTF?? These are the girls who every time I organised to go around and see them or to go to the movies with them they would cancel on me, and it was always me who had to put the effort in and go to their place or whatever, the only time they've been to my place was once when they came to pick me up for the movies for a change (I demanded they drive me for a change) and then spent the entire car journey ignoring me playing on a nintendo DS (Vicki was busy driving, of course).

I sent a text back saying 'What the fuck? There's no need to be nasty I can't help it if I'm busy on the last couple of days I'm in the country!' And again I got 'Whatever. Your loss not ours.'

Oy! I wasn't so much upset by this as pissed off! I definitely couldn't believe it was happening to me again! I went around afterwards to Mel's place down the road, she and her daughter Lucie (who may come visit me in Aussie!) came to the BBQ and brought some home made kebabs and meat patties (which they only call burgers over here and people keep getting confused when I call them patties lol) so I took their dishes back, and when I mentioned what Lorna had said Lucie said to me 'Oh well they'll be still stuck in Sedbury 10 years from now and you'll be off travelling the world' which is so true and I feel so much better now!

Aaah well! I suppose I'd better start sorting myself out and packing my suitcase for Aussie as I'll only have a day when I get back to do it in. Which I'll spend some time doing some cleaning because I need the money. Then they'll be picking the car up that night. And paying me in cash I expect which then means I'm going to have to ask Steve to take me to the bank so I can deposit the money or something.  I wonder if the post office would be able to change to Aussie money... I doubt it.

I found the ice cream pics I was talking about! :D

Wow, first off just though I'd mention (again) that I had an awesome weekend! So you can read without fretting that bad stuff happened this time. LOL!

I went out last night to Radina's farewell like she wanted, she went down for dinner with her colleagues (I dropped her off in her car) and I stayed at home and cooked my own food. I headed into town about 9:30pm and met up with her at the restaurant/bar. I chatted to her and another of the girls who was there. One of her friends who'd come earlier to our house to cut her hair was there as well but she just doesn't talk to me. So we walked up the hill to another pub and Radina was wandering around - there was this one guy who said like 3 sentences to me, wondering who I was. I went to the bar and ordered a coke. Radina disappeared. Her friends - some of whom I'd walked to the bar with stood in a group around the bar with their backs to me having a lovely conversation amongst themselves, and then said 'let's go sit down' (not talking to me) walked all the way around me and went and sat. I had no idea where Radina was so I drank my coke as quickly as possible and left.

I don't even know where to begin. I'm sure everyone has seen the fact that Matt has been getting worse with me.  I don't really understand it though. I think it started when I had to stop working properly and had a whole lot of nothing to do. That was back in November. He didn't invite me to his place for christmas until christmas eve - I'm here in a foreign country where he knows he's about the only contact I have, and he waits until the day before to not ask, but tell me I'm coming to his place for christmas dinner. What the hell is up with that?

Ok so I have a blog, I have a myspace account, I got facebook because everyone else had it but I don't really like it that much, and now myspace is trying to be facebook so I like that less as well. 
I don't post regularly at all, my blog is to keep my family and friends updated with day to day stuff.  I may or may not post 'different' types of things here.

How do you friends lock something?  Oh never mind I see now.  I just hate having to have a zillion accounts at a zillion different places, maybe one day they'll have these things compatible or something, like some of the IMs are now.

Ok bye!