Friday, July 25, 2025

Some work banter...

...at the one (Thai) restaurant where I work now, like a couple of months ago:

1) On a weekday dinner shift that I usually have off, I walk in, and immediately my one (chubby) (Thai) coworker is like, "Why are you here?! Where's [first name of our one (newer) (taller) (Thai) coworker who usually works that shift]?!"

So, right away, I put on a very pained look on my face and I'm like, "Okay, what is happening here...?  No 'hi', no 'how are you ?', no 'nice to see you,' only, Why are you here?!"

2) Later that same night, there's a to-do about swapping around several shifts later that week because suddenly our one (younger) (taller) (Latino-American) coworker needs Sunday lunch off, so while we're standing around behind the counter, my one (chubby) (Thai) coworker sees all that happening on her phone and so she speaks out loud to me and is like, "What are you doing on Sunday?"

And, immediately, I'm like, "Sunday?  I'll be in church all day, praying," and I immediately clasp my hands together and I look up and I speak like I'm talking to G-d, and I'm like, "G-d, I know that [first name of my one (chubby) (Thai) coworker] has a good heart, but she doesn't always show her good heart at work. Please, G-d, can you help her to show her good heart at work, when she says hello to people?"

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