Post by Stal on Oct 24, 2003 15:36:36 GMT -5
^_^ I'm so freakin' happy. Guess I'll start at the beginning which was actually Wednesday.
I get home from work Wed, and my mom and sister leave. So I'm stuck alone in the house, and work up the nerve to call a friend of mine. Normally you wouldn't have to work yourself up to call a friend? Right?
Well, when that friend happens to live in Cinci (about 7 hours away), a female, and someone you'd like to be going out with (which she knows, by the way. But we mutually agreed to be friends, for now....I still don't know if she has feelings for me...), and the fact I hardly ever call anyone, yeah, I need to work myself up.
I dial...my phone acts up, I get no answer or something. i dunno. It was weird. I hang up. 20 seconds later, the phone rings...
It's another friend of mine, Jon, he lives in Georgia (well, his house is in Alabama, but they're in the middle of moving from AL to GA), and we get to talking. We inquire to how the other's Feast of Tabernacles was.
He had gotten in touble. Big trouble. I won't go into it, because it's long, complicated, and you'd have to know him.
So we talk for awhile. He tells me he wants it to go no further, except I could maybe tell Sarah/Yui (the friend I had tried to call earlier. We both know her, and until recently, he was wanting to go out with her as well...but he's found someone else...yeah)
I e-mail Sarah that night to apologize about the weird phone call. Like if anyone had answered (I'd heard no ring, but it sounded like someone else may've been on the line) and all...I also mention she may want to talk to Jon and get his story.
I don't hear from her that day. Enter Thursday.
Yesterday I'm online, and still haven't heard from Sarah. That's typical of her, as she slacks with her e-mail. XP Jon signs online and starts talking. He tells me he'd rather talk over the phone, so he signs off and calls. We talk, I ask how things are going. He tells me it's looking better. He's had some time to talk with his dad about everything that happened, and yeah, things might not be as bad as they seemed...
I ask him if Sarah called him yet. I explain why I ask, and he's like "Let's call her now." So he gets her number, clicks over, dials, clicks back.
After talking with her mom, she gets on the line. She's all quiet and stuff and I'm thinking we caught her at a bad time, like maybe she was busy with homework. But the more Jon and I listen, the more we realize, something's wrong, and she's crying.
We talk to her, and try to console her from the problems she was having. It was difficult for me to hear with as quiet as she was. But we stayed on the phone for nearly over an hour talking with her. At the end of that hour, she wasn't crying anymore, and we had gotten her to laugh and talk like we normally do.
Man, the sound of pain in her voice tore me up inside. I couldn't handle it without nearly crying myself. ;-;
But it was nice that at the end, she was normal again. I will be there for her, if she ever needs anyone to talk with. To give me a call, or e-mail, and I'll listen and console if needed.
...I'm tempted to call up there soon, just to make sure everything is still all right. She asked us to call again, soon, but Jon is unavailable the next few days...
So I'm very thankful for calling when we did. I don't think it was mere coincidence, or an accident, either. That's what I feel, though.
Then today, on an entirely other subject, something cool happened at work.
To give you some background: I work at Steak and Shake. I run the Drive-Thru station, and I'm the best Drive-Thru guy they have. Last year about Thanksgiving time, we started accepting Credit cards. One of the perks that came with that was an area for credit card tips. People would occasionally throw a tip on for me when they used their card in the Drive-Thru.
Well, back in July they took off the tip screen in drive-thru, as well as removing the area of "tips" from the slip that gets printed for signing. No more credit card tips in Drive-Thru because too many people were charging fake tips to it. So they screw us all over.
I was angry. My manager was angry, too, because she knew I averaged 6.00 a week in credit card tips. She tried to stop it, but district said no, and told them to just give me an extra 15 cents on my next raise.
I got a .50 cent raise altogether come my next review...
Anyway...today, I swipe a credit card, and tap the screen after it says "approval". I expect the register to pop open, and a receipt to start printing. Except it goes to that familiar "Apply tip", "Save for tips", or "Finalize Order" screen. I freak.
I finalize order, and hand the card and receipt.
"MICKY!" ((That's my manager)
"What?"
"They gave it back! The tip screen is back for Drive-Thru!"
"No way!"
"Yeah. Except the slip doesn't print slot for tips, still."
"Aw."
So a few minutes later, someone else pays credit card. I call her over, to show her. Lady finishes signing, I take the slip back, and go to point out that no tip slot remains.
Except there's a tip slot, and on this slip, it has "1.00" written into it.
So the return of drive-thru credit card tips is very nice. Especially when I get tipped.
--Stal
I get home from work Wed, and my mom and sister leave. So I'm stuck alone in the house, and work up the nerve to call a friend of mine. Normally you wouldn't have to work yourself up to call a friend? Right?
Well, when that friend happens to live in Cinci (about 7 hours away), a female, and someone you'd like to be going out with (which she knows, by the way. But we mutually agreed to be friends, for now....I still don't know if she has feelings for me...), and the fact I hardly ever call anyone, yeah, I need to work myself up.
I dial...my phone acts up, I get no answer or something. i dunno. It was weird. I hang up. 20 seconds later, the phone rings...
It's another friend of mine, Jon, he lives in Georgia (well, his house is in Alabama, but they're in the middle of moving from AL to GA), and we get to talking. We inquire to how the other's Feast of Tabernacles was.
He had gotten in touble. Big trouble. I won't go into it, because it's long, complicated, and you'd have to know him.
So we talk for awhile. He tells me he wants it to go no further, except I could maybe tell Sarah/Yui (the friend I had tried to call earlier. We both know her, and until recently, he was wanting to go out with her as well...but he's found someone else...yeah)
I e-mail Sarah that night to apologize about the weird phone call. Like if anyone had answered (I'd heard no ring, but it sounded like someone else may've been on the line) and all...I also mention she may want to talk to Jon and get his story.
I don't hear from her that day. Enter Thursday.
Yesterday I'm online, and still haven't heard from Sarah. That's typical of her, as she slacks with her e-mail. XP Jon signs online and starts talking. He tells me he'd rather talk over the phone, so he signs off and calls. We talk, I ask how things are going. He tells me it's looking better. He's had some time to talk with his dad about everything that happened, and yeah, things might not be as bad as they seemed...
I ask him if Sarah called him yet. I explain why I ask, and he's like "Let's call her now." So he gets her number, clicks over, dials, clicks back.
After talking with her mom, she gets on the line. She's all quiet and stuff and I'm thinking we caught her at a bad time, like maybe she was busy with homework. But the more Jon and I listen, the more we realize, something's wrong, and she's crying.
We talk to her, and try to console her from the problems she was having. It was difficult for me to hear with as quiet as she was. But we stayed on the phone for nearly over an hour talking with her. At the end of that hour, she wasn't crying anymore, and we had gotten her to laugh and talk like we normally do.
Man, the sound of pain in her voice tore me up inside. I couldn't handle it without nearly crying myself. ;-;
But it was nice that at the end, she was normal again. I will be there for her, if she ever needs anyone to talk with. To give me a call, or e-mail, and I'll listen and console if needed.
...I'm tempted to call up there soon, just to make sure everything is still all right. She asked us to call again, soon, but Jon is unavailable the next few days...
So I'm very thankful for calling when we did. I don't think it was mere coincidence, or an accident, either. That's what I feel, though.
Then today, on an entirely other subject, something cool happened at work.
To give you some background: I work at Steak and Shake. I run the Drive-Thru station, and I'm the best Drive-Thru guy they have. Last year about Thanksgiving time, we started accepting Credit cards. One of the perks that came with that was an area for credit card tips. People would occasionally throw a tip on for me when they used their card in the Drive-Thru.
Well, back in July they took off the tip screen in drive-thru, as well as removing the area of "tips" from the slip that gets printed for signing. No more credit card tips in Drive-Thru because too many people were charging fake tips to it. So they screw us all over.
I was angry. My manager was angry, too, because she knew I averaged 6.00 a week in credit card tips. She tried to stop it, but district said no, and told them to just give me an extra 15 cents on my next raise.
I got a .50 cent raise altogether come my next review...
Anyway...today, I swipe a credit card, and tap the screen after it says "approval". I expect the register to pop open, and a receipt to start printing. Except it goes to that familiar "Apply tip", "Save for tips", or "Finalize Order" screen. I freak.
I finalize order, and hand the card and receipt. "MICKY!" ((That's my manager)
"What?"
"They gave it back! The tip screen is back for Drive-Thru!"
"No way!"
"Yeah. Except the slip doesn't print slot for tips, still."
"Aw."
So a few minutes later, someone else pays credit card. I call her over, to show her. Lady finishes signing, I take the slip back, and go to point out that no tip slot remains.
Except there's a tip slot, and on this slip, it has "1.00" written into it.
So the return of drive-thru credit card tips is very nice. Especially when I get tipped.
--Stal
