Burgerflipper

new blog title

2005-10-26T23:09:00.000-07:00

http://deliverater.blogspot.com/

signed

The Deliverator

This blog isn't going anywhere..... but will no longer be updated.

Call me when you read this....

Have a good'un

Bye

HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY DAAAAYYYYY

2005-10-25T19:39:00.000-07:00

First off I have an announcement.... I am getting a new blog. Now why dear readers would you expect that I might be getting a new blog? cause I got a new jjjjjjooooobbbb..... No, my estute readers of cyberspace I will not be taking up where I thought I was..... I am going to be going to another very very very well known establishment in ____. They serve chicken almost exclusivly and they deliver.

I will be a delivery driver..... If I dont like it and I'm not making any money I'll just find another job in another grease pit...

So unfortunatly this blog will not be updated but one more time....... to tell you where I have moved my musings too. It will still be with blogspot.com but I need a new name.... It just wouldn't do to have this old nickname with a brand new jjjobb...

Call me dear readers, and I'll fill you in

And yet another week gone by..... this ones long but good so if you dont have about 10 minutes come back later.

2005-10-16T11:59:00.000-07:00

I hate my job. They are some of the most inconsiderate needy people that I have met. I worked a total of 9 hours of overtime last weekend, when they were in the bushes, and desperately needed the help. I did so simply because I had nothing better to do with my time, and had forgotten what time I was supposed to come in to work. I then stayed late both nights to assist in cleaning up.

Now mind you I know that they were busy, and that I really can't expect a lot of thanks from them for what I did. But a simple, "Thanks for giving up some extra time, that you could have spent studying, working here."

I mean I know I upset people when I no-call no-showed for 3 days but dude, I was out of the state due to a family emergency. I came im, I apologized for not showing up, and asked for my job back. It was granted to me and for that I am very thankful.

But thanks only takes a few seconds to say and can mean soooo much.

We heard some very scary words to those of us in the resteraunt business a few days back. We had a customer come in and say, "Hi I'm _________ from the County Health Department."

We gave him the manditory tour of our wonderful establishment of fine dining and he noted 2 small, and easily fixed problems. One of the rolls of TP in the ladies room was probably going to need to be replaced within the next 3 days, (Really...... I could have told them that.... They get changed when they get empty which is usually about twice a week.) and our drains need to be cleaned out. He gave us a score of 96, which is low for us, and left. Manager comes to me and says, ok go figure out weather there is anything that can be done about the TP situation, and then clean the drains out, and clean the supply closet out totally top to bottom...... he took too much time over there.

Now if you don't know me, and haven't figured out by now..... Im a guy, which poses a few problems at work when asked to work in the ladies room during normal business hours. I am a little more aware of how much time I spend in the ladies room, than most of the other parts of the building simply because of the slightly awkward position that I would be in, if someone were to come in to use the ladies room while I was there. At best, it would cause me to turn red in the face, and make a hastey exit while explaining that I was in there cleaning, and at worst would cause the person to try to explain to my manager why I should be fired for attempting to do my job.... whatever myriad things I might be doing in there on legitimate business..... while this person was attempting to get some peace and quiet in the bathroom....

This is a matter of great concern because if the GM was there, I am pretty sure I would at least get fussed out for doing nothing but my job. If the customer tried to call the 1800 number that people can and do use for complaints, I would definatly be called to task on this, and the resulting conversation might very well lead to my termination of employment.

Other managers there would laugh in the customers face knowing full well that they might lodge a complaint with the company at some point simply because the comedy of the situation would not be lost on them.

Anywhoo.... I digress... I checked the TP levels in each of the three dispensers and nothing seemed amiss to me. I then went back and saw the assistant manager who had assigned me to this task anyway, and was fussed out for coming back so quick. I then managed to pick up that the manager knew that the deal with the TP wasn't anything that really needed to be taken care of, but just wanted me to go away. So I made a show of checking one more time that there was indeed nothing wrong with the TP, and I might have taken a little longer getting back to the office than was really necessary, but all was made in an attempt to convience the Health Inspector that something was really being done. Soon enough he took off...

Manager: Burgerflipper, please clean the drains out.

Burgerflipper: Ok, I think I should use Comet, and some elbow Grese and lots of hot water and that should do the trick.

Manager: Definatly use the Comet it has bleach in it, but do it quickly, and oh by the way why were you two hours late for work today. I needed you at 3 and yuou weren't here.

Burgerflipper: (In his head: If you didn't have me comming in at a different time every day of the week I might be able to get here on time) {Note: I don't usually have a typical teenager attitude, but some days just brings it out in me at work.}
Now this is what I actually said: "I'm sorry, I guess I will have to read the schedule that seems to change 9 times a week a little more thoroughly next time. I'll get to those drains now."

If any of the above is too confusing to read I apologize, email me and I'll try to work on it more.

The drains that we use at ____ are very very different from any sort of plumbing I had ever seen before. The sink drains into this length of PVC piping that then ends right over a large sub sink sort of an area, mabye one cubic foot in dimensions where there is a more typical looking drain. It was this area which is one of the few that had yet to be cleaned since the opening of our store back in early august. With the large number of things that we do in our sinks this area was truely nasty.

There are some advantages though to have this festering pile of organic stew sitting in 3 seperate locations in our resteraunts. Those big 75 gallon dishwashing, and vegetable sinks can empty at an absolutly amazing rate of speed. The drains have a little problem keeping up though which moves a large amount of greywater to the floor, but that was the least of my concerns. I thouroughly wiped every surface I could get my hands on with comet and then water and then spic and span, and then more water until I came up with the idea.... hey let me fill the sinks with hot hot water, and then empty them all at once thus taking care of a lot of the smaller areas with which I had not been particularly sucessful. (Note: Those sinks are big, and we like them big, and we need them big. What makes no sense to me is why they dont put a big faucet in them so as to fill them quicker.) They took forever to fill, but my idea was a smashing sucess, and the drains were very very thoroughly cleaned.

I then proceded to empty the cleaning supply closet of all of the various things that it had managed to acumulate...... Or I attempted to do this... I enlisted the help of another employee to help me move a rather large, bulky, heavy, and full shelf full of cleaning supplies most of which were of a liquid persuasion out of the hole that they were put into. There is a lip of about six inches at the entrance to this closet, because we mix lots of chemical cleaners in there and need to be able to thoroughly flood the entire area.

99.99 percent of what was on that shelving unit came off during the course of our moving it. and we didnt even want to move it that far. I spent the next 15 minutes picking up what fell off... I took 20 minutes to scrub the walls and floor back where this shelving unit had come from.... and then it was time to move this thing back. After I got it into place I then had to put most of what I had already picked up once back on there once again.

Note: I am very careful now about moving shelving units around even if they have wheels on them, as this next story will ilistrate.

Aparently the health inspector had also said some stuff that the walk in needed attention. So after cleaning for a good 2.5 hours I had no complaints about spending the rest of my shift cleaning, because while I am not particularly good at it, at least I dont have to put up with irate customers that their fries are cold, when they arn't.

so back to the walk in I bound.... All I had to do was sweep the floor wet it down with water, scrub it with a giant scrub brush, and then use a squigee.... to push all the water out. Manager says if I finish early I can go home early. That sounds like a plan to me... I sweep thououghly but not too throughly because I know that Im going to pull everything out and scrub the floor anyway...... and that is where the problems started.

This is the point where I risk having a very estutue reader guess which of the nationally known fast food chains I work at.

First I dropped an entire container of cubed grilled chicken on the ground.... Not 5 minutes later the ranch sauce had joined it. Finally I managed to get the whole mess kicked out of the freezer, and now its in the hallway still out of sight of customers, but the 9 o'clock staff, which is all new was standing out there ready to start there shift. We have always had a bit of a rivalry between the shifts, and I got a good number of comments about the fact that I am basically a spaz that can't move stuff around. I managed to get the whole mess cleaned up, and looked at the clock.... Yay I was getting out early. I was supposed to get off at 2200. it was 2159. So much for getting off early.

Wow this has turned into a very very very long post.

Sorry to all about the length, and I will eventually tell you about some other stuff that happened this week but I have to be at work in 57 minutes... and its a 10 minute drive, and I need to take a shower which is another 10 minutes, and I need to get something to eat which is another 10 minutes, and I have to check my mail which is another 10 minutes, and I have to make a phone call which is another 10 minutes, so I'll catch up with you later.

Burgerflipper

Wow has it really been a week since I posted

2005-10-08T03:01:00.000-07:00

Lets see.

I kept my job, but most of the regular readers already know this. For once I was almost content with my job for an entire shift. I had forgotten what time I was supposed to be in today, so I came in ast 1500, and didn't leave till 23:42. Did I get a hey, thanks for helping out and comming in early and coving grill for 2 hours? Or a hey, thanks for finishing what you started and staying an additional 45 minutes on the end of my shift, because I move too slow? Or a thanks for being here in a pinch you came in 3 hours early so you can leave three hours early? No, On my way out the door, I heard "You will never leave the dining room in this condition when you close it." I am still moderatly annoyed that they gave me Thursday off, and not either Friday or Saturday, like I asked. I mean, who wants to go out on a Thursday night? hmm well anyway............. I cooked for all of my roomates night before last........ I had an unusal week in that I had my Monday Night Class Canceld, and my Wednesday night class was also canciled.

Oh yeah..... back to today....... I got into work, and discovered I was three hours early. The GM decided to let me stay, so that he could get off grill..... {footnote here: The sign of a really good manager is that they can do every position on the floor better than the people that do it every day.} I found the grill with meat down and no timer set at all..... Crispy Burger anyone?

I have two main modes of operations at ___________-- there is the fast fry flinging, door shutting box tossing mode. or the slow methoticalcelan way.

I clean very well, but I clean very very very slowly.

anyway I need to get to bed.

BF

Houston we have a problem...................

2005-10-02T21:17:00.000-07:00

Ok last saturday I decided that I wanted to go and visit my grandmother this weekend cause all of my cousins were comming in to town to visit her......

I went to work on Sunday and mentioned it to the scheduling person, the manager working that night and the GM. They all said that they would take care of it..... I read that that ment it was ok if I didnt work Friday night Saturday night or Sunday Night........ they thought I was still going to be there

Kinda hard to be at work flippin burgers and be on an airplane headed across country at the same time right?!?!?!?!?!?

well I get back tonight to find out when I am scheduled to work, and find out that I am supposed to talk to the Scheduling person tomorrow before 2PM, so that we can get this whole thing worked out.......

in the meantime pray for me...... I'm going to update this today after class so that everyone will know.

Those of you who will read this (and know my number) call me..... (if you don't dont ask cause ya aint gonna get it.)

Signed burgerflipper

The very very long friday........

2005-09-24T13:49:00.000-07:00

I woke up yesterday morning at 11:00.... which was plenty of time to get to class and on to other things.... I had to wash my work uniform from the night before.... I remember that there was an incident with a dumpster and some other things..... Got my work uniform in the wash, and in the dryer and took off for School. As I was driving across town I heard a call (on my scanner) go out to a street that a friend of mine lives on.... I called her and continued my cross town dash. Got to class, had a nice time and wasn't even that late. Got out of class and had to dash back across town to get to my apartment so I could pick up my work uniform and get to work on time. Worked from 3PM until 8 where I went home.... I decided that I wasn't quite ready to call it a day so I went to the resteraunt where I celebrated my birthday. Stayed there till 1:30 this morning....... I met a friend of mine there and we had a long long talk. Came home went to sleep.

Woke up this morning and decided that I needed to clean my apartment. Did a little shopping and spent the rest of the day cleaning. Early bed tonight after doing a little homework and finishing the rest of my cleaning.

Good decision

2005-09-19T20:27:00.000-07:00

I have been working on a business Idea for a while now. I finally got around to regestering a domain name..... I now own www.webwalkers.org. Its a wonderful feeling.....

More later

Gut Check.......

2005-09-18T23:48:00.000-07:00

I sit here in the middle of the night....... its almost 3AM. I was doing some research on a project that I have been working on for a while. This is something that I am prepared to throw my life at for a long long time..... I had this idea in the middle of the night at Krispie Kreme with a good friend of mine..... I wont go into the details but we discovered that there was a service that was not being provided in _______. We decided to offer this service.... and have been planning evver since.

This is a time where it is good for introspection because I know what the next step is.... and I have the ability to do it but I'm not sure I absolutely want to.... I have had many of these ideas before but this is the first time I have gotten this far and still had people that wanted to talk about it with me. (Not sure if thats a good thing or not....... :)

I will probably not sleep tonight.........

Burgerflipper

Happy Birthday to me.... Happy Birthday to Me....

2005-09-18T07:07:00.000-07:00

Yes dear readers yesterday was my birthday. I had a wonderful day. It started around 3:00 friday afternoon when I went to the bank and discovered that I had 200 more dollars than I thought I did. What a surprise..... usually its the other way around. I got some money out and went home to get on to my favorite chat room in the universe..... the Trivia Fast'n Fun... room on yahoo... I stayed there until around 10 when I went to meet _____ for my first college age birthday celebration. We went down to fith street to my now favorite club in all of _________. I was quite surprised to run into one of the managers from ______. We had a blast there listening to the dueling pianos. It was so much fun. The entire place sang me happy birthday while I stood on the stage ontop of the speaker right in the middle of the band..... Someone had this idea that we should leave there and go to ________, which I didn't like so much. We went back to ______ and stayed there till the place closed down..... But then back to the birthday celebration..... After _____ closed down we decided to go get some pizza, and we found some in a place down the street. By the time we got back to my car, and drove everyone that had joined us all the way home... it was 430 in the morning..... logged back into the chat room to say some goodbyes and then went to bed.

Saturday I woke up and went to the gun and knife show at the convention center. It was mainly for entertainment and I didn't purchase anything of particular note. I did do some shopping for my friend _______ who is turning 18 in another couple of weeks here. She knows part of what I got her but doesn't know everything..... (Note to _____ don't go in my closet. Its all in plain sight there.) Can anyone wrap presents? I need someone to wrap these 6 items for me. I'll pay you really well too. Anyway......... Back to the chat room for a few hours before meeting parents for dinner at _______. Nice dinner..... We went back to my apartment to open presents and I discovered that our couch is broken....... you can sit on it but it slowly eats you.

This morning I have sooo much to do... I need to read 9 chapters of geography and do my math homework from friday. We have a test next week in geography and a test tomorrow in math......

Hi, Can I get a coke and a smile?

2005-09-13T09:02:00.000-07:00

Its the week before my birthday, and it seems like things are comming apart at the seams. I got my hours cut way back at work this paycheck so I'm only going to get around 150 this time. I have lost certain papers, which tell me whats due in my english class. I know that the teacher won't be checking it, but its just 1 more thing I have to do for next week, if I don't get it done, because its due at some point. My doctor lost count of the days of the week and it turns out only gave me 2/3 of the medicine I was supposed to have so I'm still recovering slightly from that. Thank you to the person who stayed late last night, and helped me re-arange my room. I like the new set-up better. Thanks also to the people who I worked with Friday night..... I finally do not feel sore today.

I should go do some math homework

Burgerflipper.

PS This title is a direct quote from a customer last week. I know that you will probably never read this but its nice to give credit where credit is due

Oh my..... I have to be there then.... ok...... with what done?

2005-09-07T17:45:00.000-07:00

Thanks to the anonomyous friend that spent today with me. It was fun, and we should do it more often.

I have homework in all of mmy classes assigned every week. In the case of my english class it is due every Wednesday. {Pause here and read critically, What do you think might have happened? Either I did not get it done.... which did not happen, or I got it done, in the nick of time, and It was notable in some other way. Also looking at the day of the week that this posted might help you.}
I started the work on Thursday, I figure that there would be plenty of time, so I slowly inched away at the reading in each of my three (!) engish books. It became Tuesday Morning, and I did not know what exactly my assignment was. I emailed my teacher and got a response late last night when I got off from work. Completed the assignment around 0400 this morning, got 5 hours sleep and was good to go.

Just a quick update

Thanks yall

Peter

And _ _ U Wins

2005-09-04T10:05:00.000-07:00

Its labor day weekend, and that means a whole lot of partying in _________. Not for the employees of _________, though we are still open late every night and while yesterday it was almost dead at the hour which I came in, by the end of the night it had gotten busy. (Mental Note to self, you get paid by the hour, so when you don't clock in you don't get paid.) I had to make a run to ______ Bvd, our old store last night after some more supplies. I still have homework to do, so I should probably run. One more side piece. On days when _______ plays at home and wins downtown is hopping frequently.

Burgerflipper

2005-09-01T05:18:00.000-07:00

Web Counters

Sometimes I am reallly really with it.... other times basic things like telling time totally escape me

2005-09-01T04:56:00.000-07:00

Good morning all....

I went to bed at a very early for me 2AM last night...... most of the time I am up until at least 3 if not later.... This morning I woke up and shockingly discovered in my mind that it was 7:00. There are several hints that I might have overslept.... I am expecting a phone call from a friend of mine and usually these days I wake up out of the deepest slumber for the phone... I managed to try to call into work and I couldn't get anyone to come to the phone..... We have been having phone troubles but all I kept getting was the fax machine.... took shower found work uniform and pulled it on ran out door.

Clue #1 I had misread clock...

My door was locked.... Usually by 7PM someone is home from work and usually has the door unlocked...

There was no one awake with their door open.......

I ran outside and then encountered clue # 2

There was no one on the tennis court...... There are always people on the tennis court from around 9AM until 1 or 2 AM

It was actually cold.......

Most of the time with the sun being up for around 12 hours by 7PM it is warmer than it was at 7AM which is actually what time it was...

Got to my car and turned on the radio.... to Morning Edition.......

Wanting to be absolutly sure that I had not misread the time headed to a different but much closer well known fast food chain and asked someone there.... who looked at me like I had been drinking......

Not sure what their problem was but with enough clues I came back to my apartment.... Hey the good news is that I was not late for work..... and I have plenty of time to do homework.... but I might go back to sleep for an hour or so.... but no more...........

Lets see.........

2005-08-30T00:39:00.000-07:00

I have monday wednesday and Friday classes. I have them off as well from work which I am soooo happy about. I do have to work on Tuesday Thursday Saturday and Sunday though so it works out. Other than that not much to report. Been busy with school..... Almost all caught up...... just have to add about another third of a page to a paper and do some editing. But thats for Wednesday. I did not get any Geography homework and despite totally forgetting to do 2/3 of my math homework its all done as well. Its late now and while I dont have to do anything until 5 I would like to get an early start

Bugerflipper

Lets see........... post every day and then take 5 days off...........

2005-08-27T13:34:00.000-07:00

Sorry to all the people that regularly read this and then it suddenly stopped.... first off some rumors...

I was not arrested.

I did not end up wakiking at someone elses house....

I remember where I was at all points during the last 5 days

lets see, a full report follows.......

I have insomnia frequently after moving out so Sunday Night Tuesday Night and Thursday Night I never went to bed..... this situation has been taken care of and I have no intentions of staying up all night frequently. There have been a lot of people who have quit work recently..... so that they are short more often than they are not.... I came to work Thursday at 3 and was supposed to get off at 10...... ended up working until 4AM....... I have either been too tired or just not in the mood to write..... I have not slept through any more classes..... and I have not missed any classes.... It is getting to the point though where I can basically sleep at any time in any place regardless of noise levels or what else is going on..

I still have lots of english homework.... but its not due till Wednesday so I still have some time....

More later

Burgerflipper

Long post to follow........ or not

2005-08-22T13:05:00.000-07:00

Saturday was a busy day that did not end until the sun came up on Sunday morning..... I had just enough time after I woke up to drive to _______ pick up all the stuff I needed to pick up drop off all the stuff I needed to drop off and get back down to ________. I worked 4 to close Saturday and ended up getting off at 3AM. Had a rough night but I'm ok now...........

Went to Waffle house as is my normal saturday custom, and ended up having to find an alternate place to eat due to large number of police cars in general area. Went back to work on Sunday and had a decent day, in general, I caught my first break in as long as I could remember. Monday I had the day off from work so I went to class, and had a decent time...... and came home and did homework...... took a quick nap and in a bit here I will be headed back to World Geography

Burgerflipper

Today was interesting & the story of fried

2005-08-20T05:09:00.000-07:00

I did nothing in the early part of the day exept put some clothes in the washer and then in the dryer..... I sat around and followed my rule of doing no homework on Friday. Got dressed went into work. They had me on fries today which was ok. At first I was just droping and dumping fries, then I went to serving as well. It was fun, but the pace never stopped. At one point in time I looked into the fryer and noticed a piece of the fry bag. I pulled it out with a pair of tongs and it was breaded and crispy but also just a piece of paper. There was no question that thats what it was and that is how it got there. We made a record in half hour sales. We took in over 1,000 dollars. This was yesterday. I'm not sure what particular half hour that was but it will be ok. I am going to go home tomorrow just long enough to get some stuff that I forgot and to drop some stuff off that I forgot to leave, but enough of that back to what made my day interesting...... Usually when I close I get home around 4:30 in the morning....... Most of the time these days _______ is quiet at that hour..... tonight I detected voices...... not only were there voices they were comming this way..... 2 people a guy and a girl were walking around the other side of the dumpter that I park my car next too most of the time.... They stopped and we had a conversation, which while intersting was not of particular interest... They went to check out the vollyball court, I went to check out my mailbox and then come inside and write this. I think that brings us up to date, and seeing as I have to be at work in under 12 hours and I have 90 min of driving to do tomorrow I think I will call it a night.... or mabye....... hmmm I have to go

Burgerflipper

Part 2

2005-08-19T00:32:00.000-07:00

Sorry about that....... some of you will remember a little rubber frong that I got for Easter not last year but the year before. He was squsihy and filled with a green liquid that look cool. I was messing with him when suddenly there sprouted from him a great stream of green liquid. This was followed with the immediate loss of his squishyness. Not sure if its a word but hey now its on the internet so it must be ture........ LOL inside joke known only to me. This spray of green liquid soaked the clothes I was wearing, my chair, my computer keyboard..... which so far so good is still working well, and the floor. Fortunatly most of what is staying in my room when I leave ie. Carpter and chairs are that same shade of Green. I will keep airfrog now instead of squishyfrog.
Anyway back to my day..... I got up and went down to the community college to get another parking permit..... I had lost mine earlier, and still have not permanently found it yet......I also checked on the status of the English Book that has yet to be recieved, and is required by every ENG 111 person, which is something like 67.989 percent of the student population, at this point. Hopefully it will be in tomorrow, but I doubt if I will be in tomorrow to pick it up. I am thinking probably monday between the 2 classes. If most of the population of the school needs it they will probably order enough copies to cover everyone. A small percentage of them will either borrow it from a friend, or just never bother to buy the book. I did not have to go to class today at all and Fridays only class was canceled so I made the decision early in the day that if they needed me tonight at work that I would help them out. I was supposed to work 1600 to 2300 I ended up working 1600 to 230. I picked up 10 hours today which may or may not put me over the 40 hour a week limit to collect overtime at time and a half..... I hope I hope I hope that this is enough...... there would be no question but I also know that I took Monday off and I took Wednesday off. In fact I will be taking every Monday and Wednesday off until the end of the semester. I might continue to take Monday and Wednesday off if these are the days I have classes on. I am not sure nor do I particularly care....

As the screen has turned into a blur I am going to finish this in the morning....... or I should say later on today

Good Night from Burgerflipper

The day that went well, and then got busy and busier, and busier, and busier and Im now finally sitting at home writing this at 3AM

2005-08-19T00:17:00.000-07:00

Last night I really didn't go to bed. I don't have much to show for staying up all night, its not like my room is super clean, or I have all of my homework done for the next year, but I did it and now almost 24 hours after it started I am starting to regret it. Caught up with a friend of mine, who looked up yesterdays title in the dictionary. Congradulations to the readers that noticed it, and congradulations to the person who noticed I spelled it wrong. The correct spelling is Duex Ex Machina. I got the deffinition right, and it still fits I just mis-spelled it. My wonderful sister is stopping by tomorrow, and I am looking forward to that even though it will probably be early morning by my standards. If the new text book is in that I need for english I might have to go down there and pick it up. I would return my copy of my World Geography book because my dad already has a copy. (Thanks Dad.) Oh my more later have to go now...

Daus Ex Machina

2005-08-17T12:10:00.000-07:00

Today I had a bit of a rocky start. My first class starts at 1230 in the afternoon. I woke up at 1310. Ran out door drove to college, and ran into instructor. Picked up sylibus, confirmed book, got marked present, and had nice conversation.

Mental Note to self. Staying up late does not do well in the morning.

Todays title is either Greek or Latin and it means enter the machine. I consider that a machine entered the universe to set up above. Got home, changed went to gym for a quick work out, and will now start on my homework. I have to fill out a pre test and write a 1 page paper by next Wednesday. I am going to start on it now so that I dont have to worry with it later.

More to follow

Burgerflipper

Im Leaving On a Jet Plane Dont know when I'll be back again..... how about this weekend?

2005-08-16T22:10:00.000-07:00

Today Began Late becaus yesterday ended late. Closing the reseraunt takes around 2.5 hours, and more when like on all Sunday Nights 2.5 tons of Grocerys show up at 2330. I spent the majority of the night in the walk in which is cold........ We had so much stuff that we did not use because we do not sell to many fruit salads. I could have told them that they wouldn't but the old stuff had to have use first put on it. The new stuff had to go in front of or on top of the old stuff. Thismorning I packed up all of my things, or most of them see list of forgotten things to follow. I finally moved to _____ its the same place I work so I can't tell you the name. I have 2 room mates who I will not name for my own reasons. They can be called ________ and _____. ______ has a girl friend and hardly spends anytime at the appartment. _____ has a job and he works days we all go to _______ College, which is slightly outside of_________. I still have lots of unpacking to do, so after I get this posted which is actually happening Tuesday night, and Todays stuff posted I will be unpacking all of that. We all went grocery shopping and got some simular items. We all got salt and pepper shakers or we brought them from home, we got so many rolls of paper towels we dont think we will ever run out. I forgot half my filing cabnet...... long story worthy of its own post but not tonight, one of my work uniforms, since returned to me..... yes its still in the bag in my car, yes it will move tomorrow inside to be laundered along with the other one.

I have decided to add Tuesdays stuff to the end of this.

This morning I got up around 0830 to get going on unpacking, you cant tell cause even though I have unpacked a lot there is still much lkeft to be done. I took my computer to a place to get it wired for internet.... much better now, and I will be able to post things when and as I think of them as opposed to when I can get computer time. Came back to my apartment, unpacked some more and then met my Mom for lunch, and a round of book shopping. {Thanks Mom} I still have lots of unpacking so this is getting kind of long.... ah well...... Came home and rushed off to work. Got stuck on grill and stayed there the whole night. They were short people as they had one of the hardest working people quit last night........ too bad.......... enough... they were short so I will probably end up working grill a lot to make up for the loss. (Note to a Certain person I used to go to school with...... help wanted apartment still available........ same complex different apartment...... hint hint hint hint hint.... plz.......) For the rest of you its been great its getting late, I think I will call it a wrap.

Burgerflipper. (Now in new location, smaller and messier, but its mine and it will get cleaner by morning)

Something funny I wrote

2005-08-13T12:36:00.000-07:00

Top 10 Signs your High School will miss you...

10) You can't fit all of your awards in 1 box.

9) You have teachers still calling you.

8) You still have "connections" at school

7) You have a reserved parking space

6) You have another parking space named after you

5) You will never have to pay to get into another game

4) All of your High school friends are still calling you

3) You actually want to talk to them

2) You cant fit all your awards in two boxes

1) You still talk but dont go out with to your high school sweetheart

Tired......

2005-08-13T05:15:00.000-07:00

8/13/05 05:18

I am bushed....... Opening night was intense.......................................................................... falling asleep trying to write this. As perdicted we had people basically all the time. At 2200 we closed the doors with almost 25 people left to serve. I think I threw about 9 servings of fries away all night even though I was on fries for the majority of the time I ws there. We had to pull more fries from the freezer because there were not enough of them, I forgot to use the fry slacking cart........... note to self..... use fry slacking cart.... .fill it up once with 25 10 lb bags of fries and I can run off of that for the whole night...... I cooked fries and cooked fries and cooked fries. At the old location we would never store fries already put up in boxes. Any fries seen this way were waiting on other elements. If I had tried to do this tonight there was no way I would have made it through. I had 3 Large 3 medium, and 3 small orders of fries. I also had 3 orders of value nuggets and 3 orders of kids nuggets put up at all times. This allowed me to work on restocking instead of on demand. This made it easier because we had 3 seperate regesters going for the first 2 hours of my shift.Every time someone decides to order a combo unless they otherwise specify they get medium fries. The number of medium fries we sold was such that there are 2 storage areas for them as opposed to everything else that gets one. I had to restock all of 3.5 times during the night. Closing time came and we started to clean, and we cleaned and cleaned and cleaned and cleaned and cleaned, and at 0245 most of our help was sent home because they were talking too much and working too little. It was me and one other person that ended up clocking out at 0357. We headed out, and I gave him a ride home. I got home at 0459/ Iy is now 5:49 AM I am going to bed

(A very tired burgerflipper)

Turns out we dont flip burgers at our resteraunt......... more on that tomorrow............. or sometime soon............. someone remind me to tell you about the time that......................................................................................................................................................................................... (End of post)

2005-08-12T13:05:00.000-07:00

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OPENING DAY

2005-08-12T09:05:00.000-07:00

Today is a wonderful day. We are opening our new resteraunt today. I work the 8PM to 2AM shift. I have been bloging since my last post but I have not had the chance to post it on the internet so sometime close to Monday I will re arange the posts a little to get the new stuff in. I am running out of things to pack that will not be needed over the next 3 days, so that is slowing down. I have lots of boxes to use to pack the rest, so that is no longer needed.

Other than that things going well.

Burgerflipper

2005-08-11T02:01:00.000-07:00

I had some funny things happen at work today, actually for once it was yesterday. I did not work graveyard I worked 1200 to 1700.
We cleaned today, We scraped shrinkwrap off the freezer floor. We cleaned every surface, Down to the actual menu its self. We hung posters, and for the main attraction of the day we wasted 800 lbs of ice. Actually we didnt wste it but it had to be removed from the icemaker so that it could be cleaned. I started out by scooping out the ice with a big ice scoop into buckets. The contractor came by and reccomended a hose, The manager came by and wanted to know why we had busted ther hose out again, Then we wanted to know how good it worked. It worked real good and was a hole lot of fun. I watched him play with it for a while then he said, "Scoop and spray," and we went back to scooping ice. We wasted a lot of ice with the hose, but we still ended up scooping a lot. Had fun. Mental note to self, I already hate the dumpster, it would require having shaq around to take the trash out with one person, and every other way I can see it its going to take at least 2 if not three people....... OSHA will be not happy. One of them is actually going to have to climb the dumpster. Anomyous Person who sent me email (you know who tyou are) if you are reading this, and have a better idea for how to take the trash out one personed with someone of my size that would be great.
The other thing that I never thought would happen actually occured at 0100 this morning. There is a west wing episode that I never saw. It is quite interesting and I can't quite place it. Its Season 3 I can tell its Posty 9/11 and its the west wing take on the Anthrax scare. Its interesting. This is a note to Bravo. I like the fact that they finally put something on that I have not seen/. Congradu;llations.

2005-08-10T23:51:00.000-07:00

Wednesday 8/10/05 2351

Today even though I did not go to work I still managged to have a busy day. I woke up this morning and went to the bank where I deposited my check. It was not the highlight of my day as most of it went to the government. I have always been a fan of the government but I worked for the money, and I think I should get to keep more of it.

I then went home collected a large pile of dirty laundry left over from my last through room cleaning and dragged the 4 rather full garbage bags of laundry to the laundermat. I like laundermats I always have. Its easy if you have a large large pile of clothes to maximize the time spent. I ended up doing 8 washers full of laundery. Then I put them all in the dryers, and folded them all said it took about 4 hours. There is just something rather enjoyable about putting many many loads of laundry in at once, and especailly the high tech way of paying for them. They have a machine that tkaes money and issues these credit card like things that you insert to debit your account. It makes it so that there is only one place on the property that there is any money. Its an easy way to pay for the services, and it makes it so that you do not need to bring quarters, and here is no jamming of machines because there are very few moving parts. If you did not use the entire balance that you put in you can easily carry it over to another visit even if it is some months down the road. I actually had 4.75 left on my card that I hadn't spent from the last time. It was a welcome suprise. I have to work tomorrow and the James Bond Marathon. Actually that reminds me of my ROTC Banquet that was held last April at ____________. My friend and I they know who they are were on the team doing setup. We arrived at the location around 1500 for an event that did not start until 6. We came in our school clothes, and had packed our ROTC uniforms in suitcases. We set up for the event went got a bite to eat and then came back, in time to change. We changed in a bathroom and just as the majority of the people involved were showing up we appeared to be leaving with baggage. It seemed like something out of a spy movie. Just some schuduling notes I am putting here more for me than anything. Thursday I have to work from 12 to 5 but then I have a party to go to around 7 at the new location of _____. Then Fridayu which is the grand opening of ________ I work 8 to close as I do Saturday and Sunday as well. Monday Morning I wake up and move to _____ ________ from _________. This will take the entire day and I will be taking this day off. One week from Today my college classes start. Sounds like a busy week but thereis a significant weather event in the atlantic that could possibly cause some minor difficulties to the schedule. There is the small mater that if things get bad enough college ight be put off. This would cause great havoc on everyones schedule. I hope that if it comes it is enough to close school so I can work in the shelter, and I hope that it is not enough to do too much damage.

If I end up working in a shelter, I would be issued an HSA Jump kit, and I would bring a small over night bag mainly filled with food and a tactical vest which I have filled with various handy items. I have a box that I have some other things that I shall bring with me.... a couple of flash lights and some glow sticks. The vest has everything I would need to survive....... It would not be the most comfortable night I spent with my vest, but I would be alive. The bag would have mainly water, some bottled starbucks coffee, and some quick snacks. I have done hurricanes before but never with a radio. I have a feeling that there wouldn't be a whole lot of time to do basic things like eat. Especailly because the last time I did not have a radio. I become a vital communications link and things would automaticly get busier. Throw in the possesion of a scanner, and you reeally have an interesting combination.

This has been a long time that I have been saving this on the computer. This will change when I actually get online....... sometime monday afternoon-evening.

I should probably turn in now.

An end and a new begining.

2005-08-10T01:08:00.000-07:00

First some announcements......

Thanks to the anonomyous person who suggested yesterdays title. They know who they are and I thank them for the favor, you know which one, and for letting me use there words. You know who you are.

Today was a rather historic day so I am writing this in the middle of the night as opposed to the day time. Depending on how things shake out tomorrow I mmight get this posted either Sunday or possibly Monday, but it will probably go up on Sunday. Tonight I worked the last night in the ________________ location of _________. We will be moving to the __________ location on Friday of next week. I have Sunday and MOnday off, then I have to go back to the store and get my paycheck, which should be larger than the last one. I then need to go and work in the new location unpacking and getting things ready. I'm not sure what exactly that entails but we shall find out shortly. In my time off I am going to pack some things that are not coming with me next week, and do some laundry. I do not want to go anywere or do anything else except mabye clean my car.

On a different note, I got a rather scary looking piece of mail today. It was from US District Court..... What it turned out to be was a survey wanting some information so that they could consider me for Jury Duty. I have always wanted to be a juror, and look forward to any future corrispondance from them. Unfortunatly I probably wont be allowed to blog about that but it should definatly be an interesting experience.

I want to get abut 12 hours of sleep so I am going to turn in for the night now.

Burgerflipper.... who was yet to flip a burger...... ;)

8/10/05
0108

Well its been a while.... surprised I still remeber the password

2005-08-09T17:12:00.000-07:00

It sure has been a while.

had my final day of work at the _________ location of _________ Saturday night.... had fun and will always have employee privliges... Saturday and sunday off spent sleeping and packing.... I have to leave a week from yesterday for moving to _______. I have a friend and my parents to help.... thanks in advance

Not a whole lot of time right now... I have a funny list of thoughts I'm going to post at somepoint.

2 Extra Large orders of fries behind............

2005-08-06T11:06:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was quite a day. I could never seem to quite catch up and then all of a sudden I would be way ahead....... It made no sense. I could not seem to do anything quite right..... and was always behind...... I went on break thinking that mabye it would be better eventually. After break I was pulling trash, and I let go of the trash can after it was in the dumpster. Most of the time it just stands upside down and I have to shake it a little to get the trash to come out. Tonight it just slithered away from me. I went back inside to get the manager, and he came out to assess the situation. It was decided that the only way the Garbage can could possibly be retrieved would be to have someone jump into the dumpster and actually pull it out manually. There was no question as to which one of us was going in there. I am fit but not the most in-shape person in the world. I managed to get in there, got the trash can out and got out of there. Well I would not have won any beauty contests when I got out, and fortunatly the resteraunt was closed for walk in customers, so only my top half was visable out the window. It made for an interesting night for sure...... I have to get back in there tonight at 6, and my laundry still needs to be done.....

I also need some suggestions.... My shoes still smell like the dumpster.... does anyone have any idea how to clean them so that they do not smell?

Busy busy busy...... and why I cant seem to be in the right place doing things that need doing

2005-08-04T11:31:00.000-07:00

I need to do laundry.

I need to pack for college.

I need to fill out change of adderess forms.

I need to decide what items I am bringing with me.

I need to buy books.

I need to start looking for boxes to move stuff in

I need to get some excercise.

I need to find an Item which I lost

I need to save money..... and gas.....

This is why I am in ______ ready to go to work and I dont have to be at work until almost 8:00.

I will do laundy tomorrow. I will clean my car tomorrow. I will do some packing tomorrow of items which I am not bringing to __________. I will go to work tomorrow night and get off in the wee hours of Saturday Morning. I will do all of these things

Monday

2005-08-02T11:19:00.000-07:00

Greetings to all of the 5 people that read this.......

I am writing this at 0300 on Tuesday but I'm not sure when It will be posted to the web. Today went very well, in many regards. I only made two really big goofs and we only ran out of fries once. We had two customers that stick out to me in that they did something unusal. We serve almost 650 people in the course of a day, that is there are almost 650 orders of food that go through our kitchen.
We make every effort to make sure that there are no accidents, but occasionaly we goof. We try not do do this but if this happens there are generally two types of people, there are those who very calmly say that they did not recieve their order the way they ordered it, and could they please get the rest of it remade, or they get indignant and swear at us, and generally carry on and make threatening gestures. We dislike these people even though we serve them with the exact same level of respect that any other customer gets. If you really want to scare the people inside a fast food establishment walk up to the drivethrough window after dark and pull it open. Quite suddenly you will find every employee in the store swarmed on that window usually quickly followed by the manager. None of these people will be very happy The drive through window is exactly that.
Drive through....... not walk up but drive through. We do not generally like to serve people from the drive through unless they are in a car. This is for our safety. It is much easier to get the window closed up if in order to jump through it you have to get out of your car. Many places will not even begin to deal with you unless you are in a car. Ours in an ecxception, and you may note that I do not give the location out. This is for the protection of both me and our employees.
Of course if you are a friend of mine...... drop me an email and I might just tell you how to get there. I thought I had seen it all until someone came back to our window and told us that we had forgotten the meat in his burger. This is generally the last item to go on any burger before it is folded. It is always the first item requested by the sandwich builder so that the grill operator knows generally whats comming up.
There is always a fair amount of chatter going on behind the line. this is sometimes just regular conversation when we arn't busy but when we have a full dining room and a full line and 8 cars stacked up in the drivethrough there is enough noise to rival the stock exchange, and the conversation that you might pick up is just about as technical. Various fast food chains have tried different things to try to make their resteraunts quieter....... none of ti works. The busyer we are the more people want to talk, and talking is necessary. If I have a large pot of hot food, and I am walking down the sandwich line I dont want someone suddenly backing into me. Likewise If sandwiches has a brief lull and suddenly the fry station which is normally only serviced by one person has a rush, I am going to want some help. During times when we know there will be a rush we will post 2 people that are not in any set position. Their sole job is getting supplies from the various places we have them stored for the people that are working the set positions. These are the ones that do the majority of the walking, because we will tell them;
"Hey I need more bags of fries, I am out of tomatos. Make that nuggets too."
Its intense work, and certainly not reccomended for everyone, but I have a surprising reccomendation. Every person should have to work in one of these places after they turn 18 and stay at least a month. After that month they can leave but people would be much understanding if they had to do this work.
Anyway its getting late and I'm getting tired...... and sloppy with my grammar.
0320

Stuff

2005-08-01T12:35:00.000-07:00

Got up Saterday and went down to ______ which is further than _______ to work in a higher volume store... We made almost 800 an hour in this particular place.... in other words we were swamped..... It was all I could do to cool fries as fast as I could and it was all I could do to keep up. The AC was broken which was not good..... especially when there is 150 degree heat lamps and 350 degree oil.... but alls well that ends well and I had sunday off.

Got my college tuition paid today so that I can actually go to class....... but have to wait with books until I actually go to class.

Burgerflipper

Thursday..... Why did I not blog yesterday and why it will be a while

2005-07-29T09:41:00.000-07:00

Greetings all.

1st off I want to thank the anonomyous person whom I spoke with yesterday. You know who you are. Second to the person wondering about the cheese the answer is YES YES YES. To all of you that don't know anything about the previous 3 lines my most sincere apologies.

I had some company yesterday, into last night, so I did not get a chance to update this. What follows is a fairly long post. If you dont have about 8 minutes to read this come back later.

I got to work later than I usually like to because I ate dinner in ______ rather than at work in ______. Dinner was enjoyable and much more filling than normal.....

I found out once I got there that not only would I be working until 0230, I would need to be back to work, not actually working but for a meeting at 0730. Great..... Wonderful....... Just exactly the news I need. I got stuck doing fries again, which was for some reason a whole lot harder than normal.

Then I ran into problem customer numero uno. This person ordered a sandwich which has apparently been heavily advertised on TV. Unfortunatly the two people than own a TV have no time to watch. We had heard of the sandwhich but we were not as comfortable making it as some others.

We made the sandwich correctly according to our nice diagram. We delivered this to the person who had pulled forward to allow us to continue to serve the drive through line. The person thought that there was supposed to be actual bacon strips on said sandwhich. When we did not deliver, he complained. We went checked the diagram saw that the sandwhich had been made correctly, and brought this to the attention of the customer. We then offered his sandwhich back to him. He wanted another one even though there was nothing that we did to his sandwhich unusual in our diagnosis of his particular difficulty. I'm not sure why but this bothered me intensly.

I had just arrived back at the fry station when I was swamped with 5 orders of 5 piece nuggests and 3 biggie fries. This was a problem, because we had no nuggets down, nor did we have fries. It took about 10 minutes for me to cook salt and get them out the door.

I arrived home at 0330, and decided to not go to sleep, so that I could be assured of waking up on time. I attended the meeting which was dealing with opening the resturaunt earlier than expected..... Great wonderful peachy.... and being a team player. I have no issues with being a team player. I do have issues with staying up all night.

I went out to my car and noticed that the tire was almost flat in the back on my side. It took me a while to locate an airpump in the same location as an ATM. Problem solved I headed to _______ to get my car fixed. I have stuff in the dryer and I am waiting at the ________.

Tonight I have to work and then I am staying overnight in ____ with ____ so that I can continue to ______ tomorrow to work lunch in a high volume resteraunt. Expect to hear from me again on Sunday because when I get home I will probably be too tired to do much of anything else.

A wonderfull day off that I still have to drive 90 minutes for other reasons

2005-07-27T08:54:00.000-07:00

OK Im going to add something to the General fast food gripes. Some people have told me that fast food resturaunts are not very clean. If you had your doors open to whom ever might come in for 12 hours every day of the week 363 days a year and only 10 people working there at any one time your house would be dirty too.

I spent almost the entire night last night either watching training videos or working on cleaning
the bathrooms :(
the dining room :/
or the back line <:(>
There was a brief time towards the end of the night that I got to run drive through, but that was work because most of the people we dealt with were not as with it as most when they went through, they all wanted something strange witht heir order. But today is my day off. I am not going to think about work I am not going to do anything with work.........

Exept I have to drive to ________ later anyway for a doctor appointment.... such is life.

PAYDAY

2005-07-26T11:16:00.000-07:00

I get paid today, which is just wonderful, I like my job most of the time unless I am trying to figure out exactly how you only managed to get half your dinner, and which half it was so that we can get the rest. We don't intentionally mess up anyones dinner, for any reason. Sometimes the computer does strange things and we end up only getting half the order. It works out most of the time though. What people can do to help us out is figure out what they have and what they need and then as nicely as possible wait for us. We are sorry for the inconvience we have caused. It seems like it should be at least friday or saturday by now. Fortunatly I have tomorrow off and then I have to work Thursday Friday Saturday.

One more thing before I go. Thanks to our wonderful home town police department for not setting up a road block at 3AM this morning. I was in the mood to get home, and definatly not in the mood to wait in line for a licence check. This helped salvage the last part of my day.

Thanks a lot.

Also to the anonomyous people out there reading this. You know who you are, thanks for what you do.

PS. Email not recieved try sending again?

Monday

2005-07-25T09:39:00.000-07:00

Today it feels like I have the day off. I dont have to be at work until 2000 but I get off at 0200 and home around 0300. I lost my wallet. Not sure where it ran off to but it will be found. Other than that not much to report.

BF

A day off from work

2005-07-23T10:21:00.000-07:00

Hi, everone today is my day off. I woke up this morning and had absolutly no idea what I wanted to do with myself. I decided to check my voicemail and see what had come in during the night and morning hours. It was all of 12:30 in the afternoon. I miss work. I probably wont have that happen much after this but I do, I miss my commute even though I almost got stuck. I came to our wonderful local liberary, where I had a nice conversation with some friends, you know who you are so I wont mention anything more. I then decided that I would update my blog and then do some general surfing.

I launched my personal radio station and It picked Come Clean by Hilary Duff. Nice music.

More later

General fast food gripes

2005-07-22T20:45:00.000-07:00

Dont ever say that fast food people sit around and dont do anything. We work harder than a lot of people in lousy conditions for long periods of time.

Dont order a burger, recieve a burger and then try to tell us that you thought it was a chicken sandwhich.

Dont ever want something for free and expect us not in involve a manager. We for the most part like our jobs too much to comp you something, without at least letting our manager know that this is happening.

Do tell us when we don't live up to your expectations, but do so in a nice manner. We do try to do the best we can. If you make a scene, we will be much less likely to want to deal with you.

Do tell us when you like the food. This makes our day.

Do learn our names. This really makes our day.

Do understand when we dont know yours. We deal with 100's of people every day and you are one of many. We ask how are you, but if we dont seem to get the response after that, its because we are focused on giving you the correct order of food, and not so much on making sure your day is going well.

If you hit us at a rush time, make sure you know what you want before you get in line. This will actually help us get your food faster.

If you make a mistake, dont try to pawn it off on us.

This is just a few tips,

More later,

Burgerflipper

Thursday

2005-07-22T09:54:00.000-07:00

I swear... I do not like to eat fries, I do enjoy cooking them, but there are certainly other things I need to be working on more in my training to be a part time burger flipper at my place of gainul employment. I was working the evening but not late night shift of 5 to 11 yestrday and I got stuck doing fries for all of that time.

The smoke overpowered me, and has seeped into the pores of my flesh, I think I will never be clean again, the grease, (while making very good shoe polish,) coats everything in sight including my face, and nose and throat. I gind that I am always thirsty working fries, partly because of the sweat that I produce working over the fryer, and partly to try to keep the smoke and the grease out of me.

Fortunatly I only have to work Today and then I'm off Sat and Sun.

more later

Update from yesterday

2005-07-21T10:56:00.000-07:00

I finally managed to regester for college. I am going to school 3 days a week which is one more than what I wanted but its not that bad. I have classes every Monday Wednesday and Friday, and the earliest starts at 12:30, in the afternoon. It works well and I like my schedule. Now I just have to figure out how I'm going to move in Aug 15, open new chain, Aug 16, and start classes Aug 17. Such is life. I'm not sure how much I am going to end up working, but I hope that I can get all of my studying in and working, and going to class. It should work hopefully.

More later

Hi, How are you today?

2005-07-20T07:02:00.000-07:00

I started out last night by setting up the other side of the kitchen, so that we could get lots of practice on sandwhiches. I then stood around for a very long time waiting to make any because no one was in the store. I then got transfered to fries, which for one reason or another was just not going to do right. I then got transfered to a special maintance duty, which was cleaning a shelf out of the walk in cooler. We have a huge refridgerator, and it had a shelf in it that was covered in mold. We took it out and sprayed it down, and put it back in there. I then was put on drive through coordinator. That job entails a little fries, a little drinks, a lot of bagging, and occasionally hanging out the window to hand stuff out. The offical way we greet people at that window is the title of todays post. I waited for my parents to come around. They said that they might come down for dinner, so I put a fresh pot of coffee on and waited.... and waited.... and waited..... and when they had not gotten there until 9 I took my break anyway. One of the strangest I have had at work yet. Fruit cup, Ice cream, and a x-large drink. Ate it went back to work for 15 minutes and got sent home. Got home checked email, checked what time I had to be up, and went to bed.

Today I have to go down for regestration, at the community college where I am going to school. I am also going to return all of the liberary books that I have for down there and get a Tom Clancy Book on Tape, because I have 90 minutes in the car that I would otherwise be reading in so why not do that.

Follow up

2005-07-19T10:40:00.000-07:00

I went to the college and found out I don't have to take remedial english, and I didn't even have to take the test over again..... Ah well such is life. Unfortunatly I do have to take remedial math, and 2 classes of it too. It should be pretty easy until we get to factors though, and the review will help. After completing these two classes I can get on with my math educaation. It will work it will be just fine. I am working the evening, but not late night shift, so I still will be home tongiht, but later than I have ever been home from my paid job. It will be ok though....

More later

burgerflipper

I am working nights whooooohooooo

2005-07-19T06:10:00.000-07:00

Finally. They transfered me to my most loved night shift. I am sooooo happy. working gnerally 4-11 and as late as 5-12 but that works a whole lot better that 7-2. I am also g0ing to take the ASSET testing today, so that they will have my placement scores, for college tomorrow...... This is all wonderful wonderful news. Unfortunatly, My Move in date for my apartment is 2 weeks later than I thought it was, and so school will start all of 10 days before I get to move in. I am not allowed to take time off from school to move, so unfortunatly my parents will in all likelyhood doing most of the moving for me. I am going to take that monday off of work mabye.... not sure it will be the first day before we open our new store. They probably will need to see me. Ah well....... It will all work out the way it is supposed to in the end. I just know it.

I subscribed to a Harry Potter Mailing list online, and withover 1000 members thought that individual emails would be a good idea, so I woke up to well over 75 emails in my box. If you sent me something, and I did not appear to recieve it please send it again.... I hunted through there fairly quickly, and then made sure to change my thing to read daily digest instead of individual emails. This works so much better, because for a low volume group, you can read all the messages in one line, and then respond to them, if you want too. For larger groups you can bite off small pieces, and it is always easier to read one exceptionally long email than 100's of shorter ones.

I think thats all for now.

Wait I submitted this to the leading blog indexer on the web so that mabye some more people can actually come and read this. That would always be nice wouldn't it.

Talk to ya'all later

burgerflipper

Something strange is happening at work......

2005-07-18T10:09:00.000-07:00

I work at a well known national food chain.... this is as specifc as I am getting and you will see why, shortly. I was scheduled to work 7AM to 2PM today, which was a full days work. It is now shortly before one and I have been off since 10:30. I am to call betweeen 3 and 5 to get my work schedule for the rest of the week. This would be quite strange exept that every other person I am training with that got there at 7 was also cut today...... Not sure what it all means but it was aparently an order from upper managament. Mabye, they realized that they were going to give us more than 40 hours on our paycheck if they continued to work us. Not sure...... well with my newly found free time I went out to the college where I will be regerstering on Wednesday and got information about taking the placement test again.... something about English 95.... bad news but it will be fine. I am taking the test tomorrow after work..... provided that I even have a job tomorrow...... I then went to my apartment complex and discovered that move in day is Augest 15. Augest 16th our new store opens and Augest 10 classes start at the community college.

More later

I have a love/hate relationship with my job now..........

2005-07-16T14:09:00.000-07:00

I love my job.
I hate my job
I love my job
I hate my job.

On and on and on........ I got stuck on fries today again and for the first 30 minutes or so it was dead. I was cooking, but throwing most of it away. Then I had just settled into that, and then I noticed I am working alone. Then lunch rush hit, and the entire staff start saying things all at once. I have a one track mind, but can expand to up to 4 tracks. Then when those are overloaded, there is no more. once I go into overload.... it takes a while to catch up. The manager came out, and fired a whole bunch of fries, and then had me prestage some. That meant that there were fries in containers, without owners yet, on the very accurate assumption that they were going to be used. After that it was easy to maintain, that stock of all of the common order sizes, and then restock those, at a slightly less frenetic pace. I then got transfered to sandwiches, which was pretty easy in comparison. This was made easier by the fact that we had a manager, and a very competent employee helping us.

White
Red
Green
White
Red
Green
Yellow
Meat

This is the pattern that we follow, and it works pretty well.

Also by the way Harry Potter came out this weekend and I am eagarly looking forward to reading it. I am also reading P is for Peril by Sue Grafton, and Tom Clancy's Exective Orders. Actually I am having this read to me, in the car, on my 45 minute commute to and from work.

Fries Fries Fries Fries and did I mention Fries

2005-07-15T17:15:00.000-07:00

Ok. This is not a gripe. I am not upset in any way. I like doing fries. I was stuck doing fries for the entire lunch rush. This was not a good thing.

Actually I cant say that I was sharing the duties of fries. Someone else was taking orders and dishing...... and it was all I could do to drop fries. Fries take 3 Minutes to cook. Wings and strips take another minute and a half. Hold time on Strips and Nuggets is 30 minutes. Hold time on fries is a measly 7 minutes. What does this mean for you, and why should you care?

Ever notice that unless you order nuggets or strips during a peak time, they have a habit of either making your order and delivering them seperatly for dine in, or making you wait for the drive through? This is because usually you managed to hit them when they had none in the fryer. They are a popular item, in certain places at certain times of day, but other times, yeah they can make them but your going to have to wait for the person doing fries, which goes out with almost everything to finish what they are doing, go to the freezer pull your nuggets or strips out drop them in the fryer wait 4.5 minutes pull them out, put them in the box, dish, and then serve them to you.

Fries occasionaly if you hit them post rush, like 2:40 can be the same way. I think I impressed the regional manager with my ability to fire fries rapidly, and effeciently without getting too flustered........... or dumping the bag on the floor. That was yesterday.

I have had nothing but cafinated beverages for the past 36 hours, I have eaten 3 fast food meals, and did not eat breakfast this morning. I am hungry now, and am considering what there is to eat. I'm not going out again......... No way no how.

burgerflipper

Hello and introduction

2005-07-14T14:46:00.000-07:00

I am a burger flipper. I work at _______ in _____. It is my second day. I am tired. I love the work but thats exactly what it is work. I have been certified in drinks, both front end and drivethrough.... but I've never worked drivethrough before. I can also do fries. My favorite is drinks but I might learn to love fries. At WORK the fries we serve are no older than 7 minutes. No matter what time of day or night we serve them, they were frozen no more than 7 minutes ago. It takes 3.5 minutes to fry them, and they are fried in two seperate fryers each with two baskets. At Lunch rush, you may get fries that only came out of the fryer, 10 seconds earlier. It might take you a while because the same person has to dish them out of their bag, drop them, pull them out wait for them to drain, and dish them up. It is well worth the wait though.

I am a college student.
I am busy
I am a burger flipper
I am well known on amatur radio in my area
I am tired.

my email is pherring05@yahoo.com or pherring05@gmail.com- pictures please send to gmail and then a note to yahoo to check it.

I am pherring05 on yahoo instant messenger
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If I don't answer your email, don't worry I most likely got it. I will write back, but it may take me a while. If I am online talk to me. I will talk back. If my away message is on, that will give you the most current info.

burgerflipper