So I got the job! Whoot! Well, Starbucks sounds like its a great place to work...They're not all corporate based. They have the right mentality, take care of the employee's and they'll defiantly take care of your business. If you want to adopt they'll pay five grand of the bills, up to five attempts. Health care is payed for, after 3 or 6 months...Shawn wasn't sure, but he said after a year of working there they give you stocks. Depending on how long you've worked for them depends how much you get for going back to school, that and what your taking...You also get a pound of coffee or tea for free every week. Pretty cool, even if i don't drink coffee tea will be nice, especially for these cold Canadian winters :P We get 30% off of whatever we buy as well. AND the cooperate guys from the top acctually come and talk to YOU and get YOUR OPINION! That was probably the most impressive thing, next to the adoption assistance. It's a large company but its got a small company feel to it. I like that.
My dinner party thing went well. Ryan thinks I should be a cook, lol. He wants to get in contact with a guy named Kyle who works in a four star resteraunt and is the only person in S.A.I.T.'s history that got 100% on the cooking exam, If he would take me on as an underling.Which would be awesome! I figure as long as its during the evening and not the day then I should be able to make it without much of a problem. Anyways I have to get ready for my last night at Boston Pizza...thank gods!! lol I will let the manager know I'm not working anymore after tonight...I will be working mornings....cant do that and then go to work again at 5....especially when they are in two different parts of the city, the transit system needs a complete overhaul...but that wont happen until sometime next year the word is, so till then gotta have one job until I can get around better. oh well Im sure Ill scrape by! lol.
Jessica
Friday, June 27, 2008
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Todays going to be a slow day, I just know it...its like a feeling you get when you first roll out of bed, forget you finally have a bed frame and fall down off of the bed. :) But I don't feel so clutzy, Donald did it too. Today we are having people over for dinner today, I am pretty excited. Never done one of these get togethers to be honest. This being our first place and all.
The cool thing about this place is that three people live in the building, you can walk to the store and to work...The not so cool thing is that I don't think there is insulation in between the walls. Mainly because you can hear the people above you talking at a normal voice or the T.V. on. But aside from that and the uneven tile floor, best to wear shoes or socks lol. Its pretty nice, were just off of a major street and you can hear the gunshots sometimes, but not be close enough to actually get hit by one (or a few) of them. :P
So I have a job interview tomorrow for Star-bucks. (No I'm not in school, Thats what is TRYING to be done, its not going so well.) Maybe I can convince them to pay me 11 or 12 to start because of my experience, I don't know it couldn't hurt to ask. Right?
People here are all white collar and black pants...where as I am jeans and tight t-shirts, relaxed, but ready to work hard. I don't understand the reason behind judging how some ones dressed, on how they will do in their work environment. I understand that if you do not fit you just...don't. It's how it is...But I can probably work windows better then some employees that they've already hired. I don't have the office experience, I tried to go to the placement agency, and they told me that they couldn't take me. My math mark was too low. But when are you going to use math like the square root of 135 at reception? If you need to know it you'll have a calculator, the tests were stupid, using MS word with no shortcuts...like who does that once they know the shortcuts? it takes four times as long....same with MS excel. Though I was reffered there by a friend of mine, when I told the girl at front desk that I didn't have any previous office experience she cringed but still kept that never wavering fake plastered on by chuckey smile...That whole place is like something out of a nightmare. If later on I decide I want to try to get an office job again I'll go to another placement agency, not Friday Professional, thats for sure. I think I'll take my 27 rejection letters over going back in there. :) I forgot to mention, they were a last kinda ditch effort after the rejection pile reached 22. But I learned something valuable here, people don't want you if you don't have any work behind it, and trying to get it is almost next to impossible.So I'm not going to be looking for a receptionist job for a little while, I'll just work at BP and hopefully Star-Bucks. Who knows? Office work isn't for everyone, and maybe this is a sign saying "DO NOT ENTER BAKA-MON!" lol *baka-mon means idiot or stupid person.* Who knows? Anyways, I gotta get this place cleaner and better organized, this is my last day off before night shift again.
Thanks for reading
-Jessica
The cool thing about this place is that three people live in the building, you can walk to the store and to work...The not so cool thing is that I don't think there is insulation in between the walls. Mainly because you can hear the people above you talking at a normal voice or the T.V. on. But aside from that and the uneven tile floor, best to wear shoes or socks lol. Its pretty nice, were just off of a major street and you can hear the gunshots sometimes, but not be close enough to actually get hit by one (or a few) of them. :P
So I have a job interview tomorrow for Star-bucks. (No I'm not in school, Thats what is TRYING to be done, its not going so well.) Maybe I can convince them to pay me 11 or 12 to start because of my experience, I don't know it couldn't hurt to ask. Right?
People here are all white collar and black pants...where as I am jeans and tight t-shirts, relaxed, but ready to work hard. I don't understand the reason behind judging how some ones dressed, on how they will do in their work environment. I understand that if you do not fit you just...don't. It's how it is...But I can probably work windows better then some employees that they've already hired. I don't have the office experience, I tried to go to the placement agency, and they told me that they couldn't take me. My math mark was too low. But when are you going to use math like the square root of 135 at reception? If you need to know it you'll have a calculator, the tests were stupid, using MS word with no shortcuts...like who does that once they know the shortcuts? it takes four times as long....same with MS excel. Though I was reffered there by a friend of mine, when I told the girl at front desk that I didn't have any previous office experience she cringed but still kept that never wavering fake plastered on by chuckey smile...That whole place is like something out of a nightmare. If later on I decide I want to try to get an office job again I'll go to another placement agency, not Friday Professional, thats for sure. I think I'll take my 27 rejection letters over going back in there. :) I forgot to mention, they were a last kinda ditch effort after the rejection pile reached 22. But I learned something valuable here, people don't want you if you don't have any work behind it, and trying to get it is almost next to impossible.So I'm not going to be looking for a receptionist job for a little while, I'll just work at BP and hopefully Star-Bucks. Who knows? Office work isn't for everyone, and maybe this is a sign saying "DO NOT ENTER BAKA-MON!" lol *baka-mon means idiot or stupid person.* Who knows? Anyways, I gotta get this place cleaner and better organized, this is my last day off before night shift again.
Thanks for reading
-Jessica
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