Scuba Shifts North and Debt.

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

I think its more the feeling of security being near where I grew up, rather than being two or three council districts away. Silly maybe but I'll do my research properly when I'm in a position to think about my own home again.

Anyway tonight I'm mostly drinking pink wine, watching Pirates of the Caribbean and playing Chomping Shark with my friend Emma from uni while our other friend usually known as Spanky sits and complains we're being children.

And this is a problem...why?

scubaangel

Which bit?

The game Spanky thinks is silly and childish, I've pointed out that the website says 3+ so its perfectly reasonable.

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

Which bit?

The being children bit, there's nothing wrong with enjoying yourself with silly things.

The other bit, moving 3 councils away is quite far - I can get to Scotland from here doing that.

scubaangel wrote: »

The game Spanky thinks is silly and childish, I've pointed out that the website says 3+ so its perfectly reasonable.

Have you noticed how good I am at not asking what people have to do to end up with the nickname "Spanky"... :A

But 3 am - must have been good...

scubaangel

His middle name is Spencer and we met him the year some guy from Big Brother called Spencer was nick named Spanky.

Yup was a really good night, although we discovered that in 2016 there will be not only the sequel to Finding Nemo but also a new Pirates of the Caribbean film, and a 10 minute short which explains how Cotton lost his tongue and why the two prostitutes in Tortuga slap Jack in the first one.

I may have completely geeked out at that point.

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

His middle name is Spencer and we met him the year some guy from Big Brother called Spencer was nick named Spanky.

Well I must be far too conventional, because I would have just called him "Frank"...

scubaangel wrote: »

Yup was a really good night, although we discovered that in 2016 there will be not only the sequel to Finding Nemo but also a new Pirates of the Caribbean film,

Another one? Flog that horse...

scubaangel wrote: »

and a 10 minute short which explains how Cotton lost his tongue and why the two prostitutes in Tortuga slap Jack in the first one.

I may have completely geeked out at that point.

It's looking like it...

scubaangel

Yeah think they should have stopped after the first three (although stopping after the first one would have been wiser) but I'll still take myself off to watch it.

What can I say, it amused me while I was a little drunk.

Am now trying to write up the mystery shops I did yesterday and making notes on my future work place from the point of view of a mystery shopper.

Things like needing to check the 'brand standard' for coffee since my Costa training taught me that you should always heat the milk before adding the coffee and that while the milk is being steamed a drink in latte glass needs to be warmed with hot water while today the girl serving put the espresso shots in to the cold glass while she was steaming the milk. Not upselling at the till etc. On the upside while we were drinking our coffees there were a steady trickle of customers and alot were buying cakes and biscuits or ordering hot food so upselling shouldn't be too tough.

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

Yeah think they should have stopped after the first three (although stopping after the first one would have been wiser)

The second two aren't the worst films in the world. They just outlast their silliness.

scubaangel wrote: »

but I'll still take myself off to watch it.

There's a whole wealth of bad films out there...

scubaangel wrote: »

What can I say, it amused me while I was a little drunk.

I could say that about so, so many things. Many paths lead from there. Many of them end up in places you'd never admit to.

So be careful - you never know what you end up doing for an evening...

scubaangel wrote: »

Am now trying to write up the mystery shops I did yesterday and making notes on my future work place from the point of view of a mystery shopper.

Things like needing to check the 'brand standard' for coffee since my Costa training taught me that you should always heat the milk before adding the coffee and that while the milk is being steamed a drink in latte glass needs to be warmed with hot water while today the girl serving put the espresso shots in to the cold glass while she was steaming the milk. Not upselling at the till etc. On the upside while we were drinking our coffees there were a steady trickle of customers and alot were buying cakes and biscuits or ordering hot food so upselling shouldn't be too tough.

That's very professional. Very much so. Now I can see why you didn't get a trainee job.

scubaangel

The front of house stuff I know I can do, the training they gave me at the Costa branded coffee shop and my mystery shopping means I can generally see things from the perspective of a customer. But the rest of it is going to be totally new to me, managing staff, the paper work and to a degree orders and budgetting are all going to be new (I'm not sure the ordering at the dive centre is quite the same what with that all being stuff which could sit on shelves for months unlike food which has a very limited shelf life if it's done wrong).

ZTD

scubaangel wrote: »

The front of house stuff I know I can do, the training they gave me at the Costa branded coffee shop and my mystery shopping means I can generally see things from the perspective of a customer. But the rest of it is going to be totally new to me, managing staff,

And dealing with staff turnover.

scubaangel wrote: »

the paper work and to a degree orders and budgetting are all going to be new (I'm not sure the ordering at the dive centre is quite the same what with that all being stuff which could sit on shelves for months unlike food which has a very limited shelf life if it's done wrong).

Well if it's a big organisation, then the ordering should be computerised (you'd hope) such that JIT techniques will minimise the stock carried at outlet level, but still allow outlets to access local(ish) stock in a timely manner. Whether or not that's true, is something you'd have to find out, but most large & geographically spread organisations work like that.

Which is why there's chaos whenever it snows, and JIT falls on its arrse...

scubaangel

All of which is why I expected a trainee or assistant manager position first.....