"I don't think you'd fit in here." "I have fast food experience." "Yeah, like twenty years ago!"

[batskeets]

Right, so I put my nice clothes on today and went to Outback, and filled out the application, only to be promptly told that they don't take servers without at least THREE YEARS of experience waiting tables. They MUST be joking. What the hell is there about waiting tables that takes three years to learn?? (seriously, I'd like to know!)

Anyway, they said they're probably hiring Host/Hostess types mid-September, but that doesn't exactly get me excited. I've seen the kind of chicks that the more expensive restaurants have doing the hostess gig, and I don't think I look enough like a recovering sorostitute to qualify. ;p It's okay, though, because I'd rather work at Kinko's anyway, and I'd be spectacularly good at that job. And Hostesses probably don't have the advantage of massive tips.

I think I'm going to apply to Misako and Sakura, when I get a chance. I love Japanese food, and perhaps I'd get an opportunity to speak Japanese I know in a real-life situation, seeing as I'm probably not going to make it to Japan in the immediate future. That would probably be the coolest food service job *ever*, as far as I'm concerned.

This train of thought really makes me want to make sushi and oyako don. I *need* to go to Sunrise!

ANYWAY. Last night at work was actually pretty long, and I was behind the wheel for most of the night. Boss James started a sort of religious discussion, at one point, which basically amounted to us agreeing that we're agnostic and that the process of education tends to make religious folk question their beliefs.

See, these days I'm of the belief that, if people want to pursue a religion, they should actually study up on it and read the religious text(s) associated with it. It seems that a lot of folks attend religious services, where they're told that such-and-such passage from the Bible/Koran/Book of Mormon/whatever means X and Y, and they accept that as The One Correct Interpretation, rather than reading it for themselves and drawing their own conclusions. There's a lot that can be left to interpretation, and while religion is not a bad thing in and of itself, the system of attending churches and bible schools seems to preclude the kind of critical thought that *should* be put into an individual's belief system. You'd think that people would want to invest more time and energy into something that they believe in so vehemently.

And yes, that was an incredibly broad generalization. I have personally known people who actually strive to think intelligently about what their belief system means to them, and that's the kind of thing I wholeheartedly support. That's what *everyone* should be doing.

Speaking of reading up on religion, I bought Chuck Palahniuk's Invisible Monsters and the Tao Te Ching yesterday, and I can't decide which one I want to read first. Gwaaaaa. :D I've read parts of the Tao Te Ching before, though, so maybe I'll put that off for a bit.

If you couldn't tell, I'm in kind of a bogged down mood, and I'm terribly sleepy to boot, so I'm going to go watch the TV and perhaps catch a few extra winks.

Comments

[starkodama.livejournal.com]

Waiting tables is actually really tough. (I used to serve at IHOP and Applebee's). But certainly not three-years kinda tough. :/

[skeets.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've waited tables before, too. I worked at a Friendly's in the touristy part of Connecticut, at a time when they were severely understaffed and the CT stores were scrambling just to train enough management personnel to keep them all running, so it was a pretty hectic situation. ^^;

But yeh, I don't figure there'd be *that* much to learn at this joint, aside from a new menu and a few standard procedures. Bugger.

[wednesday]

Ahh, but the side effect of religious study can be to turn out like me. ;)

Gah. I had more to say on this, but then the blood sugar went AWOOGA.

[sarapada.livejournal.com]

Speaking of incredibly broad generalizations... out of (completely straightforward and not bitchy) curiosity, do you know a lot of girls who belong to a sorority? Are they all "sorostitutes"?

[alleycatsphinx.livejournal.com]

I do, and amazingly they're not! I was quite shocked and dissapointed to have my stereotype broken.

I still suspect that the cool ones are the exception and not the rule, though.

[skeets.livejournal.com]

On a deep and personal level, no. But I work for the Designated Driver Shuttle here, which is frequented by folks who subscribe to the Greek system, so I'd say I'm regularly exposed to a pretty large sampling of them.

And yeah, they're probably not that bad when you come right down to it. (a few are terribly nice as patrons to the service) But they really should learn to wear pants that don't expose ass crack. ;p

[alleycatsphinx.livejournal.com]

Mass religion seems to have dual purposes of bringing people closer to enlightment/god and bringing people closer to other people. Subsuquently the relationship to the church is more emphasized than the actual context of the religion itself - almost as if religion were only a pretense for creating a social club.

I suppose it's logical that the orginazations which put focus for community before theory would grow (like bacterial colonies) to become the most noticable. It's been the subject of many debates though, as I think both the Protestant reformation (in religious, not political context) and the Cha'an/Zen/Bodidharma Buddhisim movement we're focused on reaffirming a personal relationship with the theory, and not simply a (corrupt?) community under the tent of the unstudied text. The theme being that a relationship with enlightenment can only be understood imminently and is knowledge that cannot be transferred from one person to another.

Interestingly enough, a similiar movement occured (is occuring) with regard to Science, in that the empirical method is actually flawed for the same reasons (no one can do all expirments, thus they must trust the expirences of others, no one can do their "own" expirments because they already locked thinking in terms of science, subsuquently the world cannot be expirenced through science...). Some attempt to rebel against this with transcendentialism, others take attempt to ramify it through studies of history. Regardless, Science, like all worldview/religions, attempts to BE the world, and through the study of it one may understand it (but... of course then you only understand Science and can never truely answer whether it IS the world - thus, you're anger at followers and the revolving demand for imminence).

People probably don't think its very important though. There's an unspoken sentiment that it isn't. Also, it's "difficult", and difficult is bad, m'kay? Please forgive me I've had too much caffine.

[alleycatsphinx.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I accidentally used the wrong from of your again. Don't kill me Ran!

[whiteraevyn.livejournal.com]

>>Interestingly enough, a similiar movement occured (is occuring) with regard to Science, in that the empirical method is actually flawed for the same reasons ...<<

I completely agree.

[skeets.livejournal.com]

That icon rocks. :D

[alleycatsphinx.livejournal.com]

Thats my thinking cap!

It's a new lj trend we're starting. Put a stuffed (or otherwise) animal on your head, take a picture (neck or sholders up, no cloths visible) and name it Animal on Head (except where animal is... well, you know.) Everyone needs to do it. It's elite.

[skeets.livejournal.com]

Heh, well, I used to have an icon with a can of Mountain Dew on my head... go go gadget caffeine!

[storm_dancer]

Whoops, I forgot about the previous experience thingy. Our Outback you're supposed to have a year, but they've been waiving that 'cause we're understaffed. I think that's because they don't want to have to train you how to wait on customers, just the menu. Plus, if you've waited tables for years, you must be pretty good at it, or you'd have quit or starved to death.

But I like your Japanese restaurant idea even more. You get to use your mad language skills, and you never know what kind of other job contacts that will bring you.