can you believe this crap?! from the papers of diana freeburg

worlds most fascinating college graduate

Thursday, May 24, 2007

Dear Diary,
Since I'm not in Europe anymore, it's time to become gainfully employed. And I am gainfully employed, i've been doing some catering here and there. Summer catering is much different than school year catering at Lewis and Clark. So far I have done a formal served dinner honoring about 90 nuns and another buffet for a bunch of chemistry geeks talking about brewing beer. i have concluded that nuns like to go boxes for just about unfinished morsel and chemistry people are geeks. (by the way i got a C in highschool chemistry and i'm still bitter)
So now I am an aspiring waitress. Since I'm 21 I am doing my best to skip the whole hostessing bit and move straight to server. It sucks being an aspiring waitress because people aren't even that impressed when you are a real waitress let alone just trying to be one. I have had 5 interviews at three restaurants so far and I have one more today. I am catching on to these big chain restaurant managers. They all ask the same questions and I am doing my best not to sound like a phony jerk. Because I can't stand phony jerks. And I honestly do like working in restaurants. But how do I convey this without sounding like someone who sucks? Sources tell me that at the first restaurant I applied to that the GM didn't hire me because I didn't look him in the eye. I don't remember not looking him in the eye. But he apparently just decided that this was a non negotiable. today at my interview i am probably going to over compensate by giving the GM the staredown the whole time and i won't get hired for being a creep. It's really rough being rejected by somewhere that you weren't that impressed with in the first place, and somewhere where you know for a fact that they hire idiots on a regular basis. But you know what? I'm over it. I'm so over it that I'm going to stop talking about it.
Love,
Diana

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