Long night.

 

Man down was an understatement tonight. Lost a waiter off the bat to food poisoning. And a dishwasher, to well, sickness but stupid circumstance.

 

Kid just got dealt a suspension for throwing a beer at a girl during a staff camping trip, and then fel sick on the weekend. Convienent? Maybe, but I'm not here to judge him. His Dad called in sick for him yesterday, causing mild discomfort with my fellow managers. We had to shuffle a busser and a few people around, but it was all covered.

 

Dad was nice enough to say that he would give us a call early on in the day if Son wasn't feeling well so we could have lots of time. The afternoon went by with no call, so no worries.

 

4:15 rolls around and Mom is on the line saying her baby can't work. We open at 4:30. I'm the closing manager, this falls on my lap when I walk in the door at 5 as the day manager didn't want to deal with it. I didn't know who I wanted to strangle more, the kid, the mom or the day guy. It was kind of a roll of the dice at his point.

 

I have no issues with someone calling in sick. But dude, don't get you mom to do it for you. Thats lame.

 

This event happened to cause more havok than needed. We normaly have two dish pigs on, and one was already hurt with some turf toe suffered from high school football. This was icing on the cake. Now I have no dish pigs.

 

It could've made for an interesting night had A not stepped up and ran the whole show. He got lots of help from staff, managers, salad people and the like. But Cheers to you regardless A, job well done.

 

I have a way I like to run the show when it's my show to run. I think the staff should have some fun when working, and that it's generally lacking at work as of late. I liek to gather the staff up and do rounds of shots and make sure the tunes are kicking. I view my job when I'm running the place is that of a host. One who sets the mood and tone of the night. That was tough to do tonight.

 

Man(Men now) down meant everyone was picking up for someone at some point, and most people don't mind, in fact it's very rare wher i work that the team can't pull together and make it happen no matter what. No one tonight complained, but you could tell the idea was wearing thin in the eyes of some.

 

I bring a solution to the table to help quel the pain.

 

Booze!

 

Shots start to make thier way around to the staff that are of age to partake and for me, I feel I've done what I can, what little it may be, to make everyone just a bit more chill. Take a step to the back to change the tempo of the tunes and suddenly the place seems a bt more friendly.

 

I love it when booze does what it's supposed to.

 

FW.

Look I'm stating now, that even though I haven't wrote in a long time, despite good referral traffic, I'm throwing this up here as random thoughts from my mind, not work related ones. I do that form time to time, and will have something to put up here shortly.

 

Dreams are really strange. It's really one thing about yourself you have little to no control over.

 

I'm fat, I can lose weight. I have control over that.

 

I'm a bit of a miserable sod, and if what they say about life being what you make of it, I have control over that.

 

I hang out with a cat who is a total douché, I stopped calling him. I have exersized control over that.

 

But dreams? I've got nothing.

 

Work dreams are something people have all the time. Especially us in the "industry". We give them clever little nick-names like; "Hut-Mares" for those who work at the ever fasionable Pizza Hut. I could go on for a bit, but you get the idea. We even have little names for all the drama that goes on in our places of work. "As the Apple Turns" was what we used at Applebees during my time there. Trust me when I say that what happens inside the doors of our stores is far more interesting than what happens on TV Soaps.

 

Is the cook is screwing the owners wife on the prep table?

 

Is the office manager taking a round out of the chef next to fireplace at table 38 during the daytime?

 

She got the nickname "puddles" on what table?

 

Really, with what goes on in the store during non buisness hours I'm surprised even I eat there.

 

I would be remorse to say I haven't participated in some ill concieved ideas after the lights go off, but hey, when in Rome.

 

I actually started this with the intention of talking about dreams.

 

Not even so much as controling them, just one that I had. I just felt compelled to write about it.

 

I haven't seen my one ex in almost a year and a half. It was a rough break-up and even though I regreted it, it was the right thing to do, we had grown apart and it was a rift that kept getting wider. So that was it.

 

I ran into her in the movie theatre a little while ago, and she looked great. Don't think I'm pining for the past here, she really did. I am often surprised at my own ability to go thru the dry spells and come up bagging some pretty good looking girls to break up the drought. And she looked great. Even with the new guy.

 

Before you get concerned, I was cool with it. A professional as one in that situation must be. I get that it's been over a year, but every human, no matter how callous K, is always a little surprised to see thier ex for the first time in a long time, especially with the new guy/girl. Truthfull moment here, I was hoping it would've been a new girl. That's hot.

 

None of that really matters as it were, I just happened to have a bad dream starring her last night. And she was pregnant. Really pregnant.

 

I don't why it shook me, and why I'm still thinking about it. Just am.

 

She was also being a little mean in the dream, she threw out my CD binders. No clue why. Just did, and boy did it hurt.

 

I suppose what I'm most worried about is that my dreams have a tendancy of seeming to come true. Kinda like Deja Vu, and again something you have no control over.

 

I know that some people that fancy themselves a dream analyst, and might try to crack some meaning out of this. Please do, I would be interested to see what people have to say.

 

I'm also wondering if I should hide my CD's.

 

FW.