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Perks:

1. one pound of coffee free per week!!(yey for me!!:) )

2. free coffee during my shift (i save about $8 a day for 2 frappuccinos!!cool)

3. 30% off on drinks when you're not on shift

4. meeting new people (some customers are really funny actually-super fun to talk to!!and they're so encouraging pa!during my first day at the register, i kept screwing up orders-mga 5 lang that day- and i just kept making pacute by saying "sorry, it's my first day", so they become all nice and all, and would encourage me pa..they even gave tips!!haha!!)plus there was this cute guy who was like "so, you're new huh?doesn't look like it!!"haha!!too bad i don't remember his face!!ahhaha

5. working with awesome people(i love the people i work with!!they're all so nice and helpful and very funny!!!they're all so pasaway!ahlavit)

6. free pizza!!(haha!!since the starbucks i work at is beside domino's pizza, we give them free drinks in exchange of free pizza!!How cool is that?haha)

7. knowing how to make the drinks!!(mind you, i can make frappuccinos na-as in the drink mismo and the base pa)well, i can just make the fraps and the tazo iced tea and the caramel macchiatto..the others, i have yet to learn...

8. $8 an hour beybeh!!(but they still have to take out the tax...boohoo, so i don't know how much pa!)

9. paid vacations--after 3 months, i get one day off from october ata to april na bayad ng starbucks...cool diba?

did i mention free coffee?:)

disperks (shyet, i have my own language na!!)

1. standing for the whole shift (which i don't actually mind since there are soo much people na you don't know the time...i get 10 minute breaks but i take less time because i get bored sitting down..haha)i only notice na i've stood up the whole time when my legs begin to hurt at night

2. insomnia...yep, i get too much caffeine!!like right now, it's 12:20 at night na but i'm still super hyper because today, i had a workshop where we had to taste different types of starbucks coffee, i think i've tasted 7 kinds kanina...eh i'm a bold coffee type of person, so i liked the sadani (i think that's what you call it)the sumatra coffee tastes really funky, i don't know why people like it..tastes like dirt-not that i've tried it!!haha!!in addition, i got pa a caramel light frappuccino and a strawberries and cream frap(sorry na, i was hungry kasi eh, we had a lecture na 4 hours, so i got the crf (caramel frap) at the start and the stcf during the break..i got din a banana loaf since i was hungry..haha!!shyet!!i'm really gonna gain weight here!!haha!!i'm so hyper talaga!!It's not even funny!!

3. calling orders!!this is the one i need to get used to pa naman...i'm having a hard time distinguishing saying order and order cold...kasi they told me to say"order cold for cold drinks--mga frap,etc and say "order" for the hot drinks..so sometimes, i say"order cold" for an iced coffee and they'd correct me..basta my point is i have yet to distinguish which iced coffee is order cold or just order..plus, sometimes, people say their orders too fast or too long na i just zone out!!haha!!it's not like kasi in manila wherein people just order their fraps or their iced mocha or something..as in here, they have pa a dupio no foam no whip whatever espresso bladiblah na when i call it, i say "order" and then i just let the customer repeat her/his order to the other barista, tapos she/he will guide me nalang on the register...haha!!it was so bad talaga my first day on the register..as in i zoned out on this girl who was talking so fast tapos she handed me pa a splenda...i was thinking "pongalangala!!what am i supposed to do)..buti talaga, the customers and the people i work with are really nice and patient with me...my supervisor nga yesterday said that i was doing fine with the register, so i was happy about that!!and the assistant manager told me that it took her like 2 months to get the register, so no worries for me...gosh buti nalang..and the others told me na it will get better..so i hope it will talaga!!haha

4. getting coffee spilled on your clothes...i know that's part of the job...i mean the occassional spritz of coffee or water is fine...but seriously...this afternoon,as i said, we had a coffee tasting session..being the clumsy person that i am (parang i got gulat ata, i don't remember), i spilled my coffee on my pants..mind you i was wearing khaki pa naman...and i just bought it last saturday(shyet)..we have a dress code eh:black or khaki/tan pants, and a black/white polo shirt...so today i decided to wear my khaki pants...wrong decision...being the smart as that i am naman, i didn't wet the stain(kakahiya naman kasi...would you really wet your pants in starbucks).pero one of the guys i was with naman (he was a shift supervisor in seattles best before he moved to starbucks) said na water can make it go away...so i only tried to remove the stain when i got home...haha...smart butt!!sana talaga it goes away!!gosh!!!

5. my morning shifts...yeck!!!this friday, my shift is from 7-11 am, next wednesday 7-12, and thursday 6:30-12...buti nalang my monday and friday next week shifts are during the afternoon...not that i'm complaining...i mean, it's okay naman for me to have morning shifts, it's just that i'm insomniac na so i have to find a way to sleep early diba?i mean at least i have a good reason to sleep early...and at least i can get my caramel macchiatto in the morning...the iced one tastes like shit talaga!!I hate iced caramel macchiatto!!eww!!!eh i can't have the hot one in the afternoon because summer weather na here!!haha:)

 ahh!!!i'm still hyper!!waaaaah!!!I need to sleep real bad!!!!and oh yeah, i still get bulol and barok over some words so don't even think that i'm slang na!!!hahaha

starting tomorrow, may 22 2007, i am officially a starbucks barista!!!

 haha!!so i got interviewed last saturday, and i kinda felt that the job was for me because of the signs...anyway, i got a free caramel macchiato because i was there(i made drama pa na i was gonna reach in for my purse pa but the manager was like, oh no it's alright) tapos during the interview, she kept talking about free coffee and all the benefits...and we were talking lang...i liked that interview kasi it wasn't like the formal type that i thought it was gonna be.and i like the manager-she looks so friendly, and i was telling her that we had starbucks planners in the philippines, tapos she got mad na how come they don't have those daw here..she was so funny..and she was like, are you reAdy to start tuesday?i was like yeah!!haha!!tapos at the end of the interview,i was like, thanks for the free coffee, and she was like, "oh you'll get used to it!"haha!!!

so tomorrow i'm gonna learn how to make frappucinos and drip coffee for 3 hours!!How cool is that?and she was saying na i can make my coffee anytime during the day, so i get free fraps and caramel macchiattos  when i work!plus, i get a pound of coffee free every week!!fun fun fun!!i can make that a business din!!haha!joke!!when i get home in manila, malay mo i can make frappucinnos for you guys!!yiha!:)

though i may not like the dress code(slacks and a white/black collared shirt...i hate slacks!!and leather shoes..ick)i think i can live with it naman, i think din that i'm really gonna enjoy working at starbucks!!!haha

if i like this job, which i think i will, i might continue working til next year siguro!!lol:)

hay naku guys!!the things you make me do talaga!!!gosh.haha!!!

 background:i applied kasi at northwest airlines as a customer service agent(as in the one sa check in).tapos mga friday last week, the girl i talked to set up an interview for me last saturday at the dulles airport at 10am..she told me nga na if i was late for the interview, i wouldn't be allowed to reschedule til 6 months later....as in ilan beses ko inulit yung airport ha mind you to confirm...

 so saturday, i was at the airport 20 minutes early ha...tapos when i went to the front desk, the person there said na the manager wasn't there yet and to just wait for her...so i waited...as in mga 10:10 na ulit when i went up to the counter and they said na she wasn't there, so i called northwest na...you know what the guy said? i was at the wrong place!!pongalangala!i was supposed to be daw at the dulles hyatt hotel and i was late na so i can't reschedule na daw for 6 months!!what an ass!!!as in asar talaga!!kasi the girl naman i talked to said to go to the airport...tapos basta to make the long story short, i went home na...so asar right?

 so much for a free ticket...

 anyway, good times naman kasi there's this starbucks branch super near my place, as in i can walk lang..when you get out of our "village" you just need to cross the street tapos starbucks na...so i don't even remember applying at there kasi i know i printed the application form...so i wasn't really expecting a call right?so mga wednesday morning, someone was calling me...it was the manager of starbucks and she wanted an interview with me...so i went nung wed but when i got there, she just left daw(kasi naman she was there daw buong afternoon, so i went there at 2...hassle!!ang short ng afternoon niya ah!) so i called her up to tell her that...tapos yesterday morning, she woke me up again to tell me na she was sorry, and if it were okay to meet with her friday..so i said okay na naman diba?tapos this morning, she woke me up again! parang when i woke up, i was like "ano ba to?she's been waking me up for the past three days!!naman!!"she called me up to reschedule for tomorrow kasi she forgot daw na she had a meeting today...hay naku!!so tomorrow, if she calls me up again, i'm applying na to another starbucks place...hinayups!!haha!!pero i have this feeling na i might get this job...sana....hope so....i really want....:)

 well my first interview came actually yesterday at build a bear workshop...background ulit...kasi last monday, i was just applying online lang to different stores sa mall na close to our place, and build a bear was one of them...so imagine my surprise when after an hour, someone from there called me up and set me up for an appointment yesterday...so i went there...imagine it was my first time to ride a metro bus, kasi i'm used to the metro train...having failed my freaking vision exam sa dmv, i still have to go to an optometrist so i can get my driving permit(that's another story but i'll give you the gist...i haven't worn my glasses for almost a year so imagine my surprise when i was given a vision test tapos i couldn't see...pongalangala!!)..so being the first time na i rode the bus, i got off the wrong stop...i had to find my way pa talaga to the mall...buti nalang it wasn't so hard...goodjob to me!!and i was early pa for the interview, so i was walking around lang and stuff, and then i ran into amanda quiambao!!haha!!she works pala in the store below build a bear!!she works at a hair styling kiosk tapos she was offering pa to fix my hair...i wanted pero i might be late na if i did...

the interview went well naman eh...the girl was really nice, and it was so kid friendly!!hahaha!!mali nga lang answer ko, kasi she asked "if you were an animal, what do you want to be and why?" tapos i said i wanted to be a dog because it's man's best friend,and all those shit...and then i remembered, hala!i applied pala at build a BEAR!!!not build a dog!!shit!!!hahaha!!they made me answer a survey, tapos the results will be released next week, so i'll find out if i got the job next week...hahaha