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Chapter 10 Star Hotel Waiter

In the autumn of 2017, in a certain city in the north.

Autumn in the north is a very magical season, because it can have clear skies and cool and pleasant periods, but there will also be sudden autumn winds that make people feel flustered.

Autumn always seems to be a little sad, the mood when the school is about to start, and the coolness of the night.Also, the appearance of fallen leaves.

I still continue the habit of going out to do part-time jobs on particularly boring days off.In fact, there are not many such opportunities, because the rest time is often full of arrangements of one kind or another.Either go out to eat, drink and have fun with a few friends, or just sleep at home or go out to visit relatives.As for career...it is more appropriate to say it is work than career.Because it was just a means of subsistence with low wages and no prospects at all.

This weekend is an unplanned weekend. I plan to take a day off to do a part-time job, and only one day of rest is enough for myself.After all, work is not too busy, and daily life is not hard.

After waking up early for five days in a row, I planned to take a day off first, sleep in for a day, and then go out to work part-time on the second day off.When I fell asleep and woke up naturally, I turned on my mobile phone contentedly and looked through the news in the part-time job group to find a part-time job to do the next day.I saw a part-time team leader with the head of a little dolphin send a message with five part-time jobs.I carefully read the content of the information he sent, and found that every part-time job is closed on a daily basis, and the location and type of work are very suitable for me.There are temporary community security guards, as well as the execution of activities at the exhibition venue, etc.I quickly clicked on the leader's profile picture to add friends.Just when I clicked on the option to add friends, I was able to send messages and chat in an instant. Only then did I find out that the option to add friends on WeChat was open and no verification certificate was required.

I greeted him politely, then forwarded the two recruitment messages I wanted to do to him and asked him if the two jobs were still being recruited, but I didn't get a reply from him.For a team leader like him who has more than one or two part-time jobs to match and recruit, it's normal that he doesn't have time to check his mobile phone messages when he's busy, so he can't reply immediately.All I have to do is be more patient and wait for his reply.So, I continued my rest life.

In the afternoon, I did not wait for the reply from the leader of the "little dolphin".I think maybe he was too busy to read the messages on his phone, or there were too many unread messages on WeChat, maybe he overwrote the one I sent and missed my message? If I ask again, will it annoy him, and it will be counterproductive?I kept guessing what kind of situation it would be in my heart, and the more I guessed, the more anxious I felt.I don't want to bother others too much, but I don't want to lose a chance I like.This inner conflict actually made me a little panicked.After going through a lot of struggles in my heart, I feel that I need to fight for opportunities by myself.If it is really annoying to be disturbed and eliminated me, then I will admit it, but I can't accept that I will continue to be passive like this.What you want to get, you have to actively pursue it yourself.

I found the WeChat account of the team leader of "Little Dolphin" again, sent a polite greeting and asked whether the part-time position still needs to employ people.I don't know when he will get back to me.

After a day's rest, towards the evening, I still haven't waited for the reply from the leader of the "little dolphin".I continued to browse the WeChat part-time job group to find the second solution.After all, life has to go on, and people will not stop because of any episode, and there is no need to "hang to death" on a tree.

I found the part-time job information that I had planned in my mind as the second plan.It was a five-star hotel recruiting temporary banquet attendants, and a deposit of 20 yuan was required.Job requirements are not limited to men and women, aged 35 to 11.The salary is calculated based on working hours, [-] yuan per hour, more pay for more work.Regular working hours are from [-]:[-] am to [-]:[-] pm. There may be overtime work or early end of get off work. The wages will be settled together with the deposit after get off work.

Since there is no suitable part-time job issued by the "Little Dolphin" team leader, and because of the deposit, I can only use it as an alternative.

I added the team leader's WeChat, and I can chat directly without friend verification just like the previous team leader.My heart immediately turned cold, it was the shadow left by the previous team leader.At this moment, I have already tacitly accepted that the team leader will not reply to my message, and I am already mentally prepared that I will not be able to find a part-time job for the next day and need to spend a boring day resting.But just when I was lost and desperate, the mobile phone message rang, and it was a message from the part-time team leader. "Hello" is a simple word, but it has won me hope.I quickly asked him if he was still recruiting for this part-time job, and he gave me an affirmative answer.I asked him about the requirements of the job, and he told me that I had better bring a pair of black leather shoes and a belt. It doesn’t matter whether the leather shoes are dress shoes or casual leather shoes, as long as they are black.There is no requirement for the style of the belt, as long as it can be used.I quickly replied that there is no problem with these, but do I have to pay a deposit?He told me that he did it in case he met someone who "released pigeons", and he was also scared by this kind of person.He also told me that he has been a part-time team leader for many years and has never been in arrears of wages, otherwise he would not have been in this circle for so long, not to mention that if he was a liar, he would have been reported by the part-timers in the part-time group , kicked out of the group.

I hesitated for a while.In fact, what he said is not unreasonable, besides, whoever is put too many "pigeons" will feel jealous.Take a step back and think about it, if you are really cheated, then you should spend 20 yuan to buy a lesson!This lesson is not expensive.

I sent the bet money to him in the form of a WeChat red envelope, and signed up smoothly.He asked for my name, mobile phone number and ID number for the record of the labor service company.I didn't give him my real ID number. Although an ID number doesn't necessarily mean that it will be used for bad things, I still feel a little bit taboo about giving my ID number to a strange part-time team leader.Simply take it as that I am fulfilling the saying "defense against others is indispensable".

He sent me a location and a phone number, and told me to get here before 07:30 tomorrow morning. When I got there, I would call this phone number and someone would answer me.I took a look at the location he sent. It was a five-star hotel owned by a well-known company. It was built in recent years. Both the exterior and interior decoration were brand new.The location is prosperous and the background is strong, but for some reason, it changed to a new owner in the previous stage.Fortunately, these questions are not what I should care about. What I really need to do is to set the alarm clock, prepare the leather shoes and belt, and wait for the next day's work.

Early the next morning, I drove to the vicinity of this star hotel.The weekend morning traffic was much smoother than I expected.So it's still early, I plan to have a simple breakfast nearby.It is next to a large shopping mall. The shopping mall is divided into two parts, one is a well-known home furnishing mall, and the other is an equally well-known large supermarket.I was here looking for a place to have breakfast and I overheard a loudspeaker playing the sound of breakfast being sold.I walked along the sound, and an old man in thick clothes was sitting in the city square of the shopping mall. A foam box and a loudspeaker were placed in front of him, and the types of breakfast sold were repeated in the loudspeaker. , probably some fast food such as buns, pies and soy milk.At the end, a piece of advice "don't be late for work in the morning" was added.I went up to buy steamed stuffed buns and soy milk, and the uncle handed them to me enthusiastically, and said to me, "Thank you for working so early on weekends."

I know that he must come out to sell breakfast every morning. In fact, in terms of hard work, he should work harder than me.Morning and evening peaks support the prosperity of the city, and everyone is working hard to survive.

Breakfast was still hot, and I filled my stomach while walking.I came to the hotel and entered the lobby from the main entrance.The luxurious and exquisite decoration style combined with comfortable light music makes people relieve tension and anxiety. The magnificent surroundings and the landscape fountain in front of me almost make me forget that I am here as a part-time job.The two girls welcoming guests at the door wore elegant light blue cheongsams, with pretty faces, long smooth hair, long legs, and high-heeled shoes, exuding the charm of oriental beauties all the time.

I quickly pulled out from this erratic and dreamy state, found the contact person's phone number and dialed it.It was a man's voice that answered the phone. The voice was rough and impatient, so that I was a little caught off guard, and the voice trembled a little when he spoke.I told the other end of the phone that I had arrived at the hotel, and he asked me to come to the door to find him and hung up the phone in a hurry.

I walked out of the hotel and came to the gate. There was no one at the gate, except for the patrolling security personnel and a few scattered people who entered and exited the hotel.I stood at the door and waited for a while, the weather in the morning was cool rather than cool.I moved a few times and couldn't help but make another phone call to my contact.

When I picked up the phone, I asked him where he was, and he said he was at the door, and he could be seen when he came in.I told him that I didn't see it, and he asked me where I was, and I replied that I was at the main entrance of the hotel.He said that's not okay, you have to come to the door of the staff passage to see me, and then hung up the phone hastily.The other end of the phone was very noisy. It sounded like he was handling something for the new employee. From time to time, there would be the sound of "Didi" and a few words of artificial intelligence.

I am a little angry.This guy couldn't understand what he said, and he hung up the phone very quickly!If you look for me at the door one by one, but don't tell me which door, everyone will default to the main entrance of the hotel.

I started to look for the staff passage, and after searching for a while, I couldn't find it, so I asked the gatekeeper of the hotel's open-air parking.He told me that the location of the employee passageway is somewhat hidden, and it takes a long way around to see the inconspicuous door.I thanked him and followed the route he showed me while walking and searching.After walking for five or six minutes, I saw a white anti-theft door, which was about the same size as a home anti-theft door.The words "Employee Passage" are pasted on the top of the anti-theft door in red.The handwriting was very mottled, and some places were already incomplete, but it was barely recognizable as these words.

Before I walked into the staff corridor, I heard the familiar rough voice a few meters away from the door, and I felt relieved.

I walked in.In the employee passageway, two or three people are standing in front of the facial attendance machine on the wall to record their names and face recognition.Two of the young men stood there in casual clothes, and the man who answered the phone was recorded for them.He was 34 and [-] years old, wearing a hotel waiter's uniform, with a heavy build and a little seborrheic alopecia on the top of his head.

"Don't move around, lower your head a little bit, okay, okay, that's it!"

He directs the recorders until both of them have been recorded by him.

"Are you new here too?" He turned to me and asked.

"Yes." I nodded.

"Come here." He beckoned and signaled that I would also go to his place to record.

I said to him suspiciously: "I'm a part-time day job, and I only work for today."

"Then I have to record it too. Come on, I'm going to gather for work later." He didn't beat around the bush, and his tone was very straight. He was a pure northerner.

I stood in front of the attendance machine and participated in the recording with many unanswered questions.The performance of the time attendance machine is not very good. Either it is stuck or the captured portrait is not successful. It takes three recordings to count as recording.The recorded information only includes name and portrait, but it is enough.

After the recording, the man led us up the stairs from the side to the area where we will be working.He walked quickly, with long strides, and could cover two or three flights of stairs in one step.We also followed closely for fear of falling behind.

As he walked, he told us that no matter what time we got off work, after get off work, we had to go to the place where the face was recorded just now to check in. After checking in, we had to take a picture of the successful check in page and save it and send it to our part-time team leaders.The part-time team leader will settle your wages according to your working hours. If you don’t have a photo of your off-duty time, they may embarrass you and not pay you your wages.Whether your part-time team leader likes to play tricks or not, taking photos is always the safest.

After saying this, we have already reached the third floor.This is the high-end luxury decoration style of the staff area and the normal area of ​​the hotel is simply a world of difference!To be precise, there is basically no decoration here.Wooden door panels, poor-quality marble floors, and walls created by partitions are like being in a color steel room.

The third floor is the staff locker room. It is not so much a room, but a small space made of leftover partitions.There were two large boxes in the dressing room, and the uniform jackets and pants of the waiters were piled up in disorder.There is only one style, you can choose the one you think is suitable, but the so-called suitable is just a little cleaner.The moment I changed into my uniform pants, I finally understood why I had to wear a belt.The trousers were not elastic, and they could be described as two straight rags.I looked at the public leather shoes scattered on the ground, which were for those who did not bring leather shoes.The uppers of the leather shoes have been trampled to the point of being loose, and they probably barely cover the feet when worn on them. Everything is for the needs of work.I'm glad I brought a pair of leather shoes, at least I still have one thing that suits me.

I looked at myself in the waiter's clothes in the mirror, and at that moment, I really didn't know myself.A set of light gray uniform is loose and baggy. The top is not a Chinese tunic suit or a suit, but the layout of the suit and the Chinese tunic suit. It is completely assembled in the "four different" style.What's more terrible is the collar part, which is neither a round neck nor a lapel, but a style that is shorter than the lapel and longer than the round neck, and there is a style in between.Stuck in the middle of your neck, it will look dull and sluggish regardless of neck length.It can be said bluntly that no matter how handsome or beautiful a celebrity wears this uniform, it will not look good, and at the same time, it will make the person wearing it as ugly as the uniform!Literally, anyone, really.

I suddenly realized, ugly?Ugly is right!Because you are not allowed to be beautiful here!They don't allow you to have too much of your own ideas, so are you ashamed to show your ugliest side when you wear it?What face do you have to brag and show off your past glory?You can only obediently obey their arrangements and do the lowest-level labor.This uniform confines your thinking invisibly and controls your whole being.

After changing clothes, everyone went to the second floor to line up to gather.Not many newcomers came this day, except me and three others, and the rest are employees who have already been here for a long time.After the assembly, it was the manager in charge of the food delivery department in the banquet hall who opened the pre-job meeting for us.The manager is a male, about 27 years old, about 1.7 meters tall, very white, slightly fat, wearing a black suit and uniform.Standing next to him was an assistant manager. The assistant manager was a middle-aged woman with a fat body, wearing a black suit, skirt, uniform and black stockings, but her body was not sexy at all in the uniform and stockings.It can be seen that she herself is very uncomfortable with such a dress, but she can only dress like this for work.The manager first asked us to sort out our appearance, and then explained the rules here to us.

From his words, I know that everyone is a temporary worker, and this hotel does not have its own banquet waiter.When necessary, they will be hired from various labor service companies, and the settlement will be made with the labor service companies according to the working hours. There is no need to take any responsibility, which can save costs and save a lot of unnecessary troubles.Some people work here almost every day for two or three years.

As for the work requirements here, the manager told us that the first thing we should pay attention to is that the waiters are not allowed to enter the hotel area except for delivering dishes and working, and can only be active in the staff area.Especially the bathroom problem. Those who need to go to the bathroom take the elevator to go to the employee bathroom on the first floor. It is strictly forbidden to use the bathroom in the hotel. Once found by other employees in the hotel, they will be immediately expelled and all wages for the day will be cancelled.Employees who smoke have to smoke outdoors on the first floor. If they are caught smoking in the bathroom, they will be expelled immediately and fined [-] yuan. Those who do not pay the fine will call the police and hand them over to the police. The price is determined by the police in accordance with relevant regulations.

When working, especially when passing dishes, you must serve them one by one according to the order of serving, and the order cannot be messed up.Remember not to show off your abilities, you must work within the range you can bear.If you feel that it is too heavy, take less than two plates and run more times, so as not to overturn the dishes or fall to the ground and break.If there is a situation where the dish falls to the ground and breaks, if it is just a plate of ingredients or cold dishes, even ordinary meat dishes.In the case that the back kitchen still has a backup, then he will not embarrass everyone, does not need compensation, learns from the lesson, and just be careful to deliver some.But if it is an expensive dish that requires expensive and limited ingredients to make.So I'm sorry, I need to make compensation according to the price of the dish sold by the hotel.

At the same time, he also reminded us that people's living conditions are relatively affluent now, and many people have more or less two luxury items in their hands, and they are willing to wear them to show off at such gatherings.What a donkey!horse!Those big names.So be careful when serving the dishes, and don't spill the soup in the dishes on the guests, especially those who look expensive, because it will be difficult to deal with.Then, he also cited a past case for us.

He said that once a waiter accidentally spilled vegetable soup on a piece of clothing that was hung behind the seat of the customer when serving food. The clothing was a relatively expensive fur.The owner of the clothes is a gentle woman in her 40s.When the manager stepped forward to apologize and said that our hotel has its own dry cleaning department that can clean for her, the hostess just said calmly that she didn’t trust the hotel’s dry cleaning department, but asked him to ask if the dry cleaning department could wash her. Clothes made of that material, because her fur would be cleaned in a special way if she wanted to clean it, not just a random dry cleaner.The person in charge of the dry-cleaning department was resting that day, so the manager could call him and talk about it before calling him over to have a look.The person in charge of the dry-cleaning department knew it was bad at a glance, because not only the dry-cleaning department couldn't wash that kind of material, but there were only a handful of shops in the whole city that could wash it.After many twists and turns, I found a dry cleaning shop that specializes in cleaning luxury goods far away from here, and the dry cleaning shop was very busy. It was several times the salary he earned as a part-time job that day!It is really not worth the candle, so we must pay special attention to such problems.

After all the requirements and precautions are explained, it is grouped.A boy and a girl are in a group, and a group is responsible for the food and drink for four tables.Boys are responsible for passing the dishes from the back kitchen to the banquet hall, and girls are responsible for placing the dishes on each of the four tables.Everyone in the group was very concerned about whether the table they were assigned was close to the door leading to the banquet hall.The people who work here are not good-looking, whether they are boys or girls.I was assigned to a group with a short girl. I don't know her name, but someone called her Xiaoxia.

Xiao Xia has worked here for a long time, and she took me to the door leading to the banquet hall and pointed out to me the positions of the four tables we were in charge of.The location is not too close to the door, but not too far either.A wedding is being held in the banquet hall, and the wedding is still going on, and the emcee on the stage is also trying his best to control the stage, that is his job.Next, we can take a short break and wait for the arrival of the banquet after the wedding ceremony in the banquet hall.

The floor we are on is also extremely simple, and it is connected to the kitchen and various banquet halls.When we have nothing to do, we have to find a place to sit or stand in the warehouse by ourselves.Nearly [-] men and women crowded into a warehouse of more than ten square meters. The scene was very similar to the scene in a movie where people were hiding in a corner of the ship and were smuggling.

People who come here to work are generally of low quality, and their speech is very vulgar.A man asked the two new part-timers if they were college students nearby who came out to do part-time jobs.The two college students nodded their heads and answered "yes".After he heard it, he said loudly that he would not go to school until he finished junior high school, and then asked the two college students what life in college was like with a little irony.Is the pretty little girl chasing casually, talking casually?Several people who knew him very well laughed out loud.He looks ugly, and his smirk looks like a villain in a movie.There are also a few people with exaggerated tattoos on their arms talking about their experiences of beating and killing.A short boy yawned. In that scene, he showed the fatigue and helplessness of the waiter.The man who recorded the face recognition for me in the morning is already an old acquaintance here. Judging from their chat, he should have been working here for three years.That is to say, since the opening of this hotel, everyone calls him Lao Yang.

The time for rest is always short, especially for hourly workers.The banquet session is about to start, and we also started to get busy ahead of schedule.Some cold dishes and appetizers have already been plated, and we brought them to the platform closest to the door leading to the banquet hall to be ready at all times, and the girls have already entered the banquet hall in advance.I can vaguely hear the newlyweds in the banquet hall uttering their wedding vows. I don't know if they are living happily now, and whether the previous vows are being fulfilled.

Following the master of ceremonies' words, the wedding ended successfully, and the banquet officially began, and it was time to serve the food.I held a huge tray with both hands, and there were four cold dishes in the tray. I still remember that the cold dish was mixed with dried tofu.The huge tray is really heavy in the hand. It is not the dishes that are heavy, but the plates that hold the dishes.As I walked, I tried to speed up my pace as much as possible or tried my best to reach the area I wanted to reach as soon as possible.Finally delivered the dishes to the place, Xiaoxia brought the four dishes to the table one by one, and I hurried back to prepare to deliver the next dish.Only this round of cold dishes, my arms have already started to feel a little sore.You know, this is just the first dish, and there are still a lot of dishes to be served later.Although it only takes about 3 minutes to walk from the back kitchen to the banquet hall, but when you are holding the huge tray with four dishes, you really want to be as close as possible.Only then did I understand why so many people cared about the distance between the area they were going to reach and the door when they were in groups. It turned out that being only a little closer meant that they could suffer less hardship.

The second dish is a vegetarian dish. The specific dish is just an ordinary lettuce dish, but the platter is very beautiful.I took a deep breath, picked up the large tray with four dishes and continued walking towards the banquet hall.The strength of different people has already begun to show a gap at this time.Lao Yang has great strength and rich experience. When I just picked up the lettuce, he had already delivered it back to prepare the next dish, and the area he is in charge of can be seen from the tables that are far from the door. .However, it was not Lao Yang who had the greatest strength, but the only one in the audience who could not wear the uniform of a waiter.This man is called "Tank". He is about 1.8 meters tall and weighs nearly [-] catties. He is a big fat man.The reason why he can not wear the waiter's uniform is also very simple, because there is no uniform of that size.So the manager asked him to wear his own white shirt and black trousers and leather shoes as work clothes.The same large tray, I tried my best to rely on my arms to hold it in my hand, but it was still very difficult.And "Tank" just held the bottom of the tray on one of his hands, just like the one in a western restaurant when serving steaks.Effortless, walking and lounging, he's not on a level with all of us.

After the two rounds of dish delivery were over, my arms were so sore that it was unnatural, but I had to continue.There are still many dishes waiting for me, really many.By the time I teleported to about the fifth course, I was about two courses behind the others.When I took this tray of single dishes to Xiaoxia, she said anxiously to me that other people's tables already looked very rich, but our table was still so deserted.I wiped the sweat from my forehead, and the oil stains on my sleeves when I picked up the dishes were clearly visible as my arms swung, mixed with the sweat on my forehead, and I could even smell it greasy smell.But at this time, I couldn't care about these details. I stepped up and hurried back to the back kitchen to continue my work of passing dishes.The manager wants to send a faster "tank" to support me to deliver a dish so as not to cause dissatisfaction among the guests because the tables I am in charge of lag behind others too much.With the support of "Tank", the few tables I am in charge of look less bleak.

One dish that stood out to me was a braised fish.Impressed not because of how good it smells, but because of how big and heavy the dish is.A long large plate with many patterns around the plate, so that a large plate can only hold two plates of this dish at a time.This makes the already heavy dishes have to be delivered twice.My arms were already sore and numb, and the last three or two dishes were all completed by the people who had already transmitted them together.This time, the task of passing food was finally completed without any risk.

The work at this stage has finally come to an end, and the manager arranged for us to go to the cafeteria to eat in batches.Lao Yang, "Tank" and I were arranged to have dinner first.The staff canteen is on the first floor. The structure here is very complicated, like a huge maze, and there is no decoration, all white walls.People who are not very familiar with this place will really get lost here.Fortunately, I still have so many people who are familiar with the route leading me.

When we come here to eat, we need a staff meal ticket issued by the manager before we can enter. It has the signature of the manager and the number of people who come here to eat.The canteen is a standard unit canteen. There are several vegetarian dishes and two or three meat dishes for employees to choose from.I just sat there and ate voraciously after being exhausted.I saw the beautiful girl wearing a light blue cheongsam at the entrance of the hotel in the morning and eating here. The simple environment of this cafeteria and her exquisite outfit seemed so out of place.People can't help but feel that behind the elegance there is always a hard side supporting it.

Lao Yang directly asked "Tank" that it must be difficult to buy suitable clothes for such a fat body. "Tank" replied a little arrogantly, saying that it was easy to buy, and he could wear normal fat clothes.Lao Yang is a straightforward person. He usually has his own job, but whenever he is free, he will come here to do a part-time job. In a blink of an eye, he has persisted for many years.He is very familiar with the manager and deputy manager here, and he often helps guide and teach new part-time workers, and is the manager's right-hand man.

Meals in the cafeteria are free, but the time for eating will also be deducted. In the end, it is still equivalent to spending money on eating.Generally, the waiters after eating like to go outside and smoke a cigarette to "breathe the clouds and mist" for a while, that way they are comfortable and happy.

After taking turns to eat lunch, the banquet in the banquet hall has almost begun to end, and the people who came to the banquet began to gradually leave.When the venue was basically over, we started another job, which was to clean up the venue and put away the dishes.This is a link that many waiters like very much, because there are many customers who have leftover food and beverages that have not been touched, and some drinks have not even been opened. This has become a happy time for these waiters to satisfy their hunger.

We took the big blue tableware turnover box to put the remaining tableware on the table into the box one by one.The mixture of oil stains and the smell of leftovers can make people feel greasy all over.Lao Yang and several waiters grabbed the leftover dish of cumin beef diced by the customer and stuffed it into their own mouths. He uttered the word "cool".Some people go too far with a bowl of leftover rice and then mix it with some leftovers to serve a "rice bowl".He obviously just had lunch, but when he sees these foods, he still can't help but eat and drink.

A gentleman-looking boy wearing glasses held a plate of croquettes and told me that this tastes good, let's try it together.I waved my hand, it’s not because I think of myself as a noble person, nor is it because everyone eats it, but I don’t eat it, so I look different.It's just that I really can't eat in such a greasy environment.I don't think they are ridiculous, and I don't laugh at them for eating other people's leftovers. From a certain perspective, they are completing the "Operation CD" for others and protecting food from being wasted.But from a realistic point of view, this is the truest portrayal of social class.

Like passing dishes, collecting dishes is also a physical job.The turnover box full of dishes is very heavy, and it takes two people to lift it to move it.A thin boy with a pot head rolled up his sleeves to reveal his tattoos all over his arms, his trousers were also rolled up, and his calves were also covered with tattoos, looking like a young man in society.He complained to "Tank" that he hadn't been to work for two years, and it was too much to come out to work suddenly. "Tank" told him that if he wanted to earn this money, he had to do this job, and he just got used to it. The "little youth" was very unconvinced and said that the money earned by working here for a day is not as good as he can earn by doing a game of game training, but it is not easy to play games at the end of the season. "Tank" smiled and didn't speak again, because everyone knew that this was just a lie to forcefully find some sense of existence for himself.

The work of cleaning the "battlefield" is over.This is because the deputy manager said that there is no need for so many people, and those who want to go home and rest can clock out of get off work now.Some people take the initiative to choose to go home from get off work, why don't I want to go home and plunge into the soft bed to sleep comfortably?But my principle is that since I have a part-time job this day, I should make good use of this day's time to make more money. In other words, if I am tired, I can only be tired this day.

Half of the people left, and the rest stayed in the warehouse to wipe the goblets.The goblet will be soaked in a large basin filled with water. We are in charge of wiping off the water stains on the cup with a dry rag, and it is qualified if there is no mark of water droplets or gray stains on the cup under the light, and it is as clear as crystal.The cleaned cups will be inspected by the deputy manager, and if they are not clean, they will be re-scrubbed, but if they are checked by the hotel's tableware safety officer, it will be more cumbersome and troublesome!

Sitting there and wiping the cups, time seemed to freeze. Sitting with a group of people felt a bit like talking at night around the fire. respite.

While wiping the glass, the polite young man with glasses who had invited me to eat croquettes started chatting with me.He is from the southwest of China and is a college student at a nearby university, graduating next summer.Whenever he has time, he will come to this hotel to work part-time, and he has been doing it for nearly two years.There is also a boy who has been bald and has few hairs. He has been working here for a long time. Everyone calls him "Brother Shan". "Brother Shan" is only 27 years old this year, but he is already 47 years old. He is well-known in the circle of local star-rated hotel waiters, and has been working as a star-rated hotel waiter for five or six consecutive years.He has worked in many well-known star-rated hotels in the local area. As long as there is a shortage of hotel labor service companies, he will be the first to think of him.It’s just that all the star-rated hotels in the local area do not have their own regular waiters like this hotel. They are all temporary workers. Is a part-time worker.But "Brother Shan" was a hotel student, and he was used to being a hotel waiter, so he simply stayed in this circle all the time.

"Brother Shan" never complained that the hotel waiters only appeared as part-time workers, which made him less and unstable.He is always proud to say that he is engaged in the service industry and is a waiter in a star-rated hotel, and he loves this profession.People are happy if they can engage in a career they love, even if the career is small.

After a long time, the deputy manager asked some of us boys to go to another meeting place to do some chores of arranging tables and chairs.This is a room similar to a meeting room in a hotel. Tomorrow afternoon, it will be booked by a company for a forum meeting. We need to go to the warehouse to get tables, chairs and office supplies to arrange according to the requirements of the conference.The experienced Lao Yang taught us how to arrange, and then led us to work in full swing.During this period, I went to the staff bathroom on the first floor because of internal urgency.It took me a long time to find the bathroom in the "white maze" that looked the same everywhere, but after I got out, I was completely lost. I couldn't find where the elevator leading to go back to work was, and it was futile to go around for a long time. I'm really lost here.

I looked at the white walls everywhere and my mind was in chaos, when a cleaning employee came here.It was a middle-aged woman, and as soon as she saw me, she knew that I must be lost.After asking me, she personally took me to the location I was looking for. During the period, she told me that this place is a "maze", and only employees who have worked for a long time can tell where is where.I thanked you and went back to my proper job.Seeing the area that the hotel presents to the guests and the area that the staff are in is a stark difference.In fact, the world is like a star-rated hotel, only those with ability and status can see its elegant and luxurious side.And the ants at the bottom can only live in its simple and messy space.

At 04:30, the deputy manager issued dinner tickets for us after a busy day, and I went to the cafeteria with Lao Yang and "Tank" again to have a meal.Lao Yang also teased: "I often go out to work, and I can save food for my family!"

After dinner, the deputy manager secretly brought us a few bottles of drinks for us to drink in the warehouse. She repeatedly emphasized not to drink them in the corridor, and put the bottles in the garbage bag after drinking secretly in the warehouse. Do not leave any traces.After drinking, I clocked in after get off work and went back to my respective homes.She is a very nice person, at least she knows how to sympathize with the hard work of others.

I watched the "tank" hold a large bottle of drink in his hand, but it looked like an ordinary thermos and felt very subtle.Sure enough, everything in the hands of the big fat man will look very small and cute.

The moment I changed back into my clothes, it was like breaking free from the shackles.I looked at myself in the mirror again, and it really was a different feeling. I have never felt so pleasing to the eye like this moment.This time I learned to cherish, to cherish the time when I can wear my own clothes, which may be a proof of ability.

When it came time for the part-time team leader to settle my wages, I worked nine full hours, and there were still eight hours left after deducting two meals.After a busy day, I was so tired that I couldn't lift my sore arms on the bus, but I only earned 88 yuan.The term cheap labor is best vindicated at this time.But society is like this, all kinds of people need to exist, especially the people at the bottom.After all, society is for us to adapt, not to change.isn't it?

(End of this chapter)