Wow, in Working in the Shadows Gabriel Thompson, the author, did back breaking work. He worked with immigrants, he changed his job 3 different times, he worked in different locations. All I did was work at Dairy Queen for a couple months, then I quit.
It was my third week working at Dairy Queen, around 7 pm it started to get busy. People in the drive, people in the lobby; there was only two registers and four people working that night. It was chaos.
Well, an order came in for two ice creams in little baseball caps, my first time ever doing this. I was terrified that I'd mess up this order. I tried making it and it was more difficult than you may imagine, you had to get at the right angle or the ice cream wouldn't be presentable. I gave it to the customer thinking it was an alright first try. When I look up, one of my co-workers took away the ice cream to make new ones because the boss was standing within the crowd observing the team in action. "Great, I just looked real stupid in front of the boss," I thought to myself.
Later on, when the crowds were gone and we were cleaning to close up shop, the boss calls me over with his thick Indian accent, "Alondra, come here". I took the walk of shame towards his desk, looking back at my co-workers hoping to see a sign of reassurance. Nobody looked up, they knew what I was getting. "Yes sir?" I asked as politely as possible. He starts yelling at asking me, "Do you know what common sense is?" so on and so fore. Finally, after he finished talking I looked up and said, "If only somebody would have taught me how to do anything around here." There was a look of astonishment on his face, "Nobody has taught you? Well, I'm surprised and I'm sorry." Wow, that felt great, the boss apologized to me, I didn't think that would ever happen. As I walked out the door that night, it felt good to leave work with the understanding of how to put ice cream in a cap correctly. I guess, in the end, it's not that bad to ask for help
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Me after work.
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