Worldly Chatter

Wow, this is most interesting and I must tell you! I have worked in fast food before and know how hard it is and all the wonderfulness of it all. I also remember how hard it was to move ahead in such an atmosphere. I really did like it but it was impossible to move up in the company. I have been working in Subway for going on three weeks now and I have a key to the place! How can that be!?

Well according to my boss when we first had our meeting, we discussed management and whether I could handle it. I thought I could and expressed as such. When I started, I was merely trying to show them that I could work well and manage well with the Dutch. Two weeks later we discussed the management again and he is disappointed! Why is that? Because I am not taking the initiative enough! There is a sign in the window for a management position and I asked him about it. Is there a chance I can obtain such a position? Well, he said, while I work my butt off and try my best at Dutch I don’t take enough of my own thought to have others do stuff, or attempt to run the thing myself. Bloody hell, I was just trying to show I could survive here and now I am not showing enough initiative!

So how did I end up with a key?

Well we talked some more, we do that a lot you know, and I am doing my best to show that I can do this and run it too. Apparently this past week has gone well and what he has decided is that we are going to try me on for size. He has been giving little tasks that I normally wouldn’t do to see how I handle it while still doing all the other tasks. One such task is to show up at 8:30 in the morning and get the store ready. AWESOME! I can do this damn it. I will show him and myself every day!

The point of this.

That this wouldn’t happen in two weeks in America! The fact that I bring home 10.45 € wouldn’t happen and giving an employee a key to the store after two weeks wouldn’t happen either. Ah, how life is so different here!

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