Learning Something New Every Day
On this, my second day at my new job, I have learned the following:
1. Belgians drink a hellaton of chocolate milk. I work in a coffee place and over the past two days I have sold, by far, more hot chocolate than coffee.
2. Those irritating people that rub and crumple the nice shiny new bill in order to be absolutely sure that it isn’t two bills sticking together are an international phenomenon.
3. Leaving work smelling like cocoa powder is not as yummy as you’d think.
But overall, everything is okay. I haven’t worked a basic counter/customer service type job in years so I’m not used to standing for almost 8 hours straight, but I’ll get used to it. Otherwise, it’s exactly what I just said; your basic counter/service job. I’ve done it before and I have no problem doing it now. My coworkers all seem very nice and it’s corporate, so I don’t have to deal with any tyrannical bastards.
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Yay! I’m glad it’s working out ok for you. I think standing for eight hours straight probably beats having Stalin for a boss.
Do you serve Cécémel? I am always so disappointed when I order warme chocolademelk and I end up with that stuff instead. Oh, and do all customers get a tiny speculaas biscuit with their drink? That also seems to be a Belgian custom.
I hope that all that standing isn’t too hard on your back, and that you are enjoying your shorter commute.
I am one of those irritating people…I simply can’t tolerate the thought of two $5, 10 or 20 dollar bills sticking together..I work WAAAY too hard for my money to not crinkle em up to make sure
I’m sure that we’ll drink a lot less chocomelk once it turns summer. Besides that, it’s true that we don’t have a take-out coffee culture (yet).