Who will save your soul?

Work today was hilarious. The kitchen line-up was something like

Mark 6:30 - 1
Rick 8 - 2
Me 10 - 5
Pedro 11 - 5

Immediately, there's a problem - Pedro and I are the only cooks from 2 - 5 (actually 4, since that's when Tony came in, but that's another story).

But Mark had to go and exacerbate the problem by kicking Rick off of dresser and throwing him on swamp. Literally. Rick was on dresser, Pedro on grill, and I was on swamp, when Mark went over to Rick and told him to go to swamp side. WTF? Rick's definitely better at dresser than swamp, and Mark's not good at either one. That, and he doesn't know how to work with Pedro (who still sucks hardcore). I knew as soon as he did it that there would be serious problems. Needless to say (but still said at great length anyway), we had major problems during lunch. Rick and I had our stuff out as soon as we saw it (the swamp monitor doesn't advance nearly as fast as the grill side monitors), and had to repeatedly go over and help them out. Dave was yelling a storm out, and Mark started imitated him. That really helps. They were really getting on Pedro. I mean, the guy sucks, but it's not going to help anything by continuously yelling at him. Lunch was just a nightmare. We did survive, though, and Mark eventually left. I'm fairly sure Dave gave him a ride home. He'd been asking the carhop that leaves early (read: female) for rides home, and that's just not appropriate. The whole manager/employee thing, first of all - it'd be different if they offered, or they're family, or a couple of other mitigating factors I can think of. But they're aren't any here. Erica came up to me Tuesday and asked me to talk to him about it; I did so today, and he said Dave already had. I've talked to Allison and Erica and told them to come to me immediately if he does it again.

I hate that guy.

Two o'clock came around, but Rick stayed 'til about 2:30. That left Dora as the only manager and myself as the only blue shirt (Anita doesn't count) in the store.

Carhops: Lacy, Ashley, Kenny
Fountains: Anita, Allison, Dora

So that was fun. I had to do all of swamp side (Pedro keeps turning around to turn off beeping fryer timers without knowning what to pull up, which screws things up), work the grill as well, and occasionally go up and bag, take a board, or make drinks. I wanted to smack people. Tony got there at 4, which helped, because there was another cook, but didn't, because he's an idiot as well. Seriously. I mean, he has a chance, but he's blowing it. Anyhoo, we got out of there about 5:45 or so.

The night crew for today is/was hilarous. Oringally, the fountains were Kris, Dave, Laurie, and Javi, and the carhops were supposed to be Kristen, Adam, and Dave. Yeah, he double-scheduled Dave. There's really no excuse for that. Then, Dave got fired (Yay!!), which left both an empty fountain and carhop slot. He didn't bring in another fountain, just had Laurie close (which is funny. Laurie resembles Leah in many ways, which means she's stupid and doesn't learn quickly at all. And she hasn't fountained before). Then he brought in Katie and Megan to carhop. Megan's a new carhop that is Tracy's roommate. And looks kinda goofy. Kristen said she was going to try to hook me up with Lilie, which seems a little... out of the blue. I don't know, though - I heard she was 24 and going through a divorce. So we'll see how that turns out.

Turns out there's no lab tomorrow, so I only have Chem and Intro to Fine Arts, which is 10 - 12. I have a good four and a half hours with nothing to do. Cool. I'll definitely spend at least part of it playing DDR - that'll be during lunch, which is a good time if you're an attention whore like me. I got a response from my Prob & Stat professor which seemed tinged with sarcasm, which is both good and bad. That, and I got in a debate with my CS professor. We were covering two dimensional arrays, coupled with readind simple data in from multiple files. The basic idea was to read in two two-dimensional arrays from two different files, each with two numbers at the beginning which specified their dimensions, then add them together in a third two-dimensional array. She, for whatever reason, declared a pair of 100x100 matrices, then read the file in and write the data into a smaller sub-matrix of the giant arrays we already have. I thought that seemed fairly inefficient, since we know how large the matrices are supposed to be, and said so. She seemed surprised that someone would question how she did something, and kept trying to counter my argument at every move with (inane) reasons why it wouldn't work. I eventually got her to understand what I was saying, and she *still* resisted, citing the fact that she was old school, where you had to declare all of your variables first. Big deal. Is that a good reason to stifle your students' creativity? No. I look foward to doing that repeatedly throughout the semester, and if I have her again, during those semesters as well.

I'm going to go play some Star Ocean 3 now. It's going to be fun.