Second Day At New Work.

My second day at Ireland & Miami went...pretty well, actually. I'll admit, I started the date feeling very bratty and "No wanna" about it, but coming home was the complete opposite.

Everyone has been perfectly nice to me, making sure I'm getting settled in. There was a fun moment, while I was sitting and waiting to be able to clock in, when Shift N (who seems to be all-but-Assistant-Manager there, in a good way) asked if I'd worked with a certain barista yet. I hadn't. She told me, in no uncertain terms, that if he disrespected me at all, I should let her or Boss Woman know ASAP. He is known far and wide for being disrespectful, obnoxious, etc.

...He was perfectly nice to me. Joked around, but not in the obnoxious, forced-down-your-throat way I had both heard about and witnessed at the store meeting on Monday. He was friendly, he was helpful...I was dumbfounded.

I mentioned this when I got home to both roommates and our friend Aurelie (via text). Between Aurelie and Sameh, I found out that M, a barista at another location who works with Certain Barista, and Shift J, CB's girlfriend and a beloved ex-corker of mine, and Aurelie herself (via M) had told CB that he had damned well better be nice to me or he would pay for it in painful and unhappy ways.*

My response to Aurelie: "D'aw, I have Guardian Baristas!"
Aurelie: "Of course. You're loved."

:)

Today's plans are to clean and tidy up both the apartment and myself, do as much laundry as possible when Ryan gets home in just over an hour, and get my butt to 933 by 3:30. Aurelie gets off then and will be studying, and Katie** will be coming in for the sole purpose of hanging out with us because she misses me.

And tomorrow, on what was supposed to be a third day off I didn't really want, I get to have LW's hours over at 933!

:)

So, off I go to eat and shower and clean and make a list of things to work on at 933...or, as BJ now calls it, Cloud-933. Le sigh. :)

*If requested, I can draw up relationship charts for everyone in that paragraph. Actually, it'd be pretty interesting to draw up a relationship chart for the district...hmmmm....

**To be honest, Katie is one the of the worst parts of leaving 933 when I did. She went on leave to get thorasic surgery the week before I found out, and won't be back until the end of March. I have no idea when, if ever, I'll be able to work with her again. She was one of my all-time favorites to work with. Poop.