November 11, 2024

Current mood: Feeling directionless

OKayy it's been a lil bit not gonna lieee... How are you doing today? Hope you're doing well.. I'm doin alright myself! Uhh I really don't know how to start this entry so I'll begin with some good news.

For starters, my pet dog, Yuki had a strange pimple/wart/lump on her bottom eyelid, which worried my family and I quite a bit. However; within the past week of me and my families worries the pimple has gotten significantlly smaller and less red! Which is awesome news because that means that It wasn't anything grave or permanenet. We're really grateful that It wasn't anything causing her any harm and pain.. PHEW

Other then that, nothing really big or exciting has occured in my life. My life is, at the moment, incredibly dull and boring. I mostly lay at home all day, either watching youtube, playing games, drawing or working on this website. If I'm not doing that then I'm headingn off to my part-time job, which, I don't really like if Im being honest T_T

Literally the only part I truly dislike is the fact that I have to pick up phone calls and talk to people like oml help me my socially anxious incompentent self cannot handle this pleasee,,,

I work as a hostess for a restaurant, which is like the easiest job you can get at a restaurant but still I wanna complain T_T

My main task is to sit people down and make sure all the waiters get a equal amount of tables within a shift. The other two things I gotta do is make sure to ring in orders that come through the food delivery apps like doordash and chownow and then I also gotta pick up the phone anytime someone calls the restaurant. T_T It's always so nervewracking for me when some random company calls asking to speak to the managaer or the owner, or if they're trying to pitch something to me... Like ma'am sir I'm just a random hostess why you asking me >:|

It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the fact that the managers kinda scary,,, like just being around him kinda stresses one out. Atleast it stresses me out. He's just a pretty rude guy all around. He's not a bad manager though. He never gets up in your business or abuses his position of power or anything.. His personalities just not one I resonate with at all -_-

One of the most annoying parts about this job, like many jobs can be the customers. I'm very fortunate that I don't really have to deal with customers or anything, since my main job is to just seat them down, but my goodness sometimes they can be a bit fustrating. Especially since I work the morning shift. Most people that come into restaurants in the morning are middle aged folk or the elderly.

The thing about an elderly person is that they can either be the most kindest, sweetest, humble and comforting person to be around, or the most irratating, fustrating, unbearable person. Just absolutely flowing with bitterness at the world.

One of my biggest pet peeves is when I want to seat someone down and they insist I seat them down at a booth when I'm about to sit them at a table.

The thing is, I understand that for the older customers they're going to have back pain and weaker bodies; so I absolutely do not mind sitting them at a booth, with cushioned seats. There are also times when a customer is hard of hearing and requests to sit at the quietest spot we have, which is completely valid.

What does annoy me is people who are very PICKY about where they wanna sit for superficial reasons, and especially when the place they wanna sit at is already very pact and overwhelming for the waiter managing that section.

I'll tell them that the booth they wanna sit at will have much slower service and still hasn't been cleaned off yet and they'll still insist they wanna sit at that particular booth. PLEASE JUST TAKE THE HINTT you're making this harder for the waiter who now has to deal with more tables then necessary and making me waste my time having to clean that one table for you filled with used plates and cups when you could've sat somewhere else T_T

WELP, despite my minor complaints I'm pretty grateful that I have this job and that I now have a little teansy amount of money under my possession. I'm able to buy things that I want and help my mother a little bit with some bills. While talking with customers or answering phone calls is stress inducing for me It has overall greatly helped me with my social skills, and I find myself being able to naturally converse with others far more easier then I did before I had this job. Ultimatetly, this job has helped me grow as a person, and I now have an ample amount of experience in the customer service industry, which has both humbled me, and given me enough experience to put on my resume.

If you've made it this far then I thank you for listening to me complain about the small insignificant woes I have, I REALLY DO APPRECIATE IT T_T

I hope you have an amazing morning, day and night. This is miss yapper, signing out;

PEACEE!!