“Do What Tastes Right.”
Written: May 23, 2007 at 12:29PM EST
After months and months of searching, I was finally able to get a job! It may not be my dream job, but its a start and at $7.25/hr, I can’t complain. Starting from the beginning is probably the best way to go about this, so that is what I will do.
Last Summer I applied at Subway, was interviewed, but didn’t get the job. After that rejection, I began looking at other places, asking for applications, seeing if they were hiring, but I was not able to get a job.  I even went so far as to go to the mall and enter EVERY store and ask for applications; quite sad if I do say so myself.
Lucikly, one day, my mother and I went into Wendy’s and were eating and the manager came into the dining area and my mom asked if they were hiring, and they were. A week or so later I was at my interview and I was hired on the spot.
Today was the first day of orientation and I have to say it was one of the most boring experiences of my life. First off, we learned how to wash our hands and then what to do if a customer comes in with a seeing-eye dog, basic stuff that is common sense, but they still need to teach. We then took a tour of the kitchen and it was crazy, the entire space was probably 10ft long by 4ft wide and there were somthing like 20 people crammed in there. To make matters worse, the floors were slippery and people were running all over the place!Â
After the tour, the did sort of a background check on the phone and were asked questions like, in the last 6 months have you or your family recieved food stamps, have you or your family recieved government aid checks in the last 2 years, and general stuff like that. Not too sure why they needed to do it over the phone as we answered questions like that during the interview, but its not a big deal.  Finally 9:00 rolled around and I could FINALLY go home. The entire ordeal was probably one of the dullest things I have done in my life, and the splitting headache I had certainly did not help any.
So tomorrow I go back and pick up my uniform and other stuff required to work, then after my trip to Myrtle Beach, I start work. It should be nice having extra money, but I still am going to miss having my summers completely free.
I have tried to get a job a countless amount of times but the best I could find was a job on a fruit & veg stall. I don’t think so. I’m not being outdoors in the winter selling friggin’ letuces. Especially since all of my friends would start hanging around on the market and knicking apples to get a chase. Haha.
Your job sounds pretty cool. Money money money. Do it for the money.
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