I’m home! You know, I remember my dad used to go to work and it would be dark when he got to work and dark when he left during Winter. While of course it’s Summer at the moment, I think I have quite a good system in leaving for work while it’s still light and not getting back until it’s light again :p.
I had a 10 hour shift which was 4pm to 2am which I have been dreading given the longest I have worked is an 8 hour which dragged and that would be working on the assumption that we would get out at 2am which I wasn’t as everyone said they never do. We got things done fairly quickly last night and got out at 2:30 so the 2am finish is really stretching the truth on the schedule. Still it’s an extra £0.50 an hour after midnight so there is a plus side.
The shift actually went ok. I had my break at 6:15-7:00 so the result was I had to work 7 and a half hours straight after that but once it got past about 10 o’clock when we had pretty much shut most things down and had very few customers it was fine as it was just cleaning and such which is more relaxed than during the day.
Afterwards we all hung around outside the restaurant talking for a while then the 5 of us working close (myself, James, Rich, Danny and Kayleigh) went back to Rich’s and played Buzz which is a PS2 quiz game. Well, after a quick stop off at Tesco for alcoholic based supplies :D. Although I was not benifiting from said purchase as I wasn’t going to drink while I had the car.
I also have money on the way. I’ve seen the pay I’m owed and that was only up to midnight last night so you can add on the morning hours and my shift on Saturday to my first pay packet. The downside is I’ll get taxed on it which while I can claim back, means I won’t have the money straight away. Mooching government. They are so lazy to not even work out if I should be paying tax or not, it’s a system that really screws students as most of us don’t pay tax but could really use our money asap.
Anyway, I have food in the oven for breakfast then I am going to get some sleep. Later today I am going to continue blogging about some interesting topics which I think I need to leave until I have a fresh mind.
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