The day started out normally, I had my appropriate breaks (which I need in order to stay sane and friendly...). I knew I was scheduled for a long day so my shift length was not due to someone calling out sick. We had a full team on hand. Then, it happened.
Dull, dawdling Dora came in. I really, really dislike working with this particular co-worker. I'd imagine my name for her gives it away, but let me explain further to paint the full picture of this encounter.
She's dull. I mean, dull like a number 2 pencil after the SATs. I mean, she's so dull I know nothing about her at all. Dull like the monotonous tone of some sleep machine that you'd actually fall asleep to, while trying to stay awake.
If I could type 'dawdling' as slow as she actually is, it would take me 3 minutes. Really, she walks, rather shuffles, in slow motion. She speaks slowly, but it sounds as if she's trying to be intentional. It's irritating.
She's slow on the cash register and can't make coffee. She works very few hours, mostly because the manager knows she's not good but for whatever reason, won't fire her...
In any case. DDD came in to work and our shifts overlapped by 30 minutes. That rarely happens. Everyone immediately bristled as no one really likes working with her because she's so slow that everyone else has to help pick up the slack.
So, back to me being a bad barista... we had four customers waiting for their drinks to be made. DDD came over to help with the coffee bar (which is shocking because I've never seen her come near it) and kept asking the customers what they wanted.
So I said, "DDD I've marked the cups" and pointed to the black sharpie marking on the side of each cup.
"Yah, but you didn't mark them right" she slowly managed to get out.
I snipped, "I did mark them right, see 'skim cappuchino'" pointing to the marking.
"But that's not right" she insisted.
"Funny, I've worked 25-30 hours every week for the past 4 months and no one else has ever told me I marked it wrong." I replied condescendingly.
When, instead, I should have just written off her questions to the customers as her way of trying to be engaging.
ug. I suck.
Currently Caffeinated, Dee
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