This is my third week at the Sheraton and I'm starting to feel like I'm finally getting traction with this job. The last few days have been a struggle because I'm being torn with a few conflicting things about this job.
When I am on wok bar, I have to set up and do breakfast and lunch service. I officially start at 6:30AM (hence the 04:25AM wake up to catch the 5:02AM train to get to work by 6AM. As soon as I get there I have to get my station ready for making omelettes, poached and fried eggs. First customer walks in at 6:30AM and I have to be ready.
A couple of cool things happened at the breakfast service today. There's this asian chick who looked so familiar asking me for poached eggs. Then it hit me who she was so I just blurted out "Oh, Natalie ... ahhh youtuber ... ummm what can I get for you?" Thee was a queue of about 4 people waiting for their omelettes, so I was so busy I couldn't introduce myself properly or have a photo taken with Natalie http://www.youtube.com/user/communitychannel. Then when I fished out her poached eggs, one of the yolks had broken. I offered to make her another one, but she just said that "It all goes down to the same place anyway." And then took her broken poached eggs with her. Bloody typical, we had Lady Gaga staying at the hotel, but did I ever get to serve her? Instead, it's this other semi-celebrity. It felt really weird that I know so much about her (due to her VLOGS) and yet she knows nothing of me, I'm not even young enough to be in her audience demography (ie. 15-25). I just begged her to please not vlog about the poached egg I had ruined for her.
The second cool thing was this older english gentlemen and he tells me I make the best omelettes. It feels great to be appreciated.
The best part of the day was finishing my prep at 4:08PM, I was only nearly an hour overtime, I usually spend at least 2 hours chopping and dicing. I'm slowly getting things right, and that is fuckin' awsome!
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