Wednesday, May 31, 2006
It's Month-End And I Don't Have To Do Stock-Count!
I had a see-saw shift today. The first half of the morning couldn't get any worse... both my openers came late... again... sigh. So I had to do a solo opening till about 7am. which isn't really bad, and I'm not complaining about them. It's just that since today is month-end (for non-Starbucks readers, month-end means we have to count almost everything in the store, yup, almost everything) the closing shift last night didn't do much prep work or topping up... sigh... and the pastry case wasn't working, there was a power trip, both there as well as at the microwave / panini toaster area... when I finally got the power back on, I realised the light switch for the pastry case was spoilt, so it would be dark in there the whole day. I was really tempted to light tea-lights... hmm... thought for another day perhaps?
I managed to open at 7.20am, of course I always do, come hell or high water! So everything went well after? I wish. At about 8.05am, I had 2 partners come in. one was late, the other was early. Both thought they were working the other's shift! That was the ok part. But by 8.30am, we had marked out two lemon tarts, two monster cookies, one blueberry muffin, six half batches of coffee... and counting... (sorry Adilah, it was just one of those shifts. It was all Chalene's and Oliver's faults!)
What else happened? We had three deliveries, each with between five to eight drinks... we spilled tons of milk and frap mix... the queue was just raging long... and then... Brother-Love came. just icing on the cake! He tried to make conversation, most of us just went about our own business... but he seemed in a dandy mood, he even commented that the shift was going well, and the store seemed alive...
And then it struck me! Hey, despite all the screw-ups, we were having fun (ok, Farhan, Zan, Chalene and Oliver, my dear partners-in-crime, feel free to jump in and protest violently here...) I guess we bond better during times of crises... when there are not enough hands on-deck, and you gotta cover each other's backs... I had fun this morning, I really enjoyed the shift... and since I didn't get the chance to say this earlier... thanks, guys. You make it all worthwhile!
After that, when the closing shift came in, although I was grateful for the extra help, the spell was broken, and it was back to "just-another-shift-in-the-store"... oh well... here's hoping that tomorrow will be just as enjoyable...
Posted by jack at 8:19 AM
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