New Beginnings

June 3rd.
I went in for a couple hours of dish washing and have since been told that I won't be doing that anymore. I started following this guy Chris around today, he's the storage manager for the Lodge Cafeteria. Pretty decent guy, he smokes a lot and cusses a lot but we get along just fine. First off, we oversee the unloading of our supply truck. It brings new food in every day, and I get to put it all away. A majority of the time, I'm in refrigerated areas, particularly the freezer, about 0 degrees (I keep joking that I'm right at home!). So I put foods away, somewhat organize them as well and label and rotate what we have according to when it came in. So now that I know where to find all the food in addition to the location of all of our pots pans and utensils, I'm starting to feel like I own the place haha. After moving food around for a bit, I get to go over orders for the next day. It seems that I pretty much sit with the head chefs and ask them what they need, which is totally awesome. I met the lead Pantry chef today, Adam, he's a really neat guy and offered to help me if I ever had any questions. The other that I would consult with is Jen, and we're pretty tight already. I'll probably have to report to Frank more often than not, but he seems to have taken a liking to me we'll be old friends in no-time. Once I'm done taking orders I get to enter them into our computer. Frank kept asking me if I had computer skills, nothing I know could have prepared me for this one. I think the computer might be older than I am. I've been told its running the very first OS for Windows. The printer looks just as old. I was thinking that with Graphic Design I've learned how to handle extremely high tech and complex printers and scanners as well as the most basic copper plate igntalio printing presses... but this one is another matter entirely. Fortunately, it all seems very straightforward, I'll have it down in a couple days.
I ate dinner with Chris, and he somewhat brought up how I'm the 'Relief Storage Manager", he's looking for an out so it's quite possible that I'll be stepping into his position in a month or so. I have to order new uniforms, one for the storage managing and one for the cooks position (I get to hold onto the hat!!!). Another thing that I'm looking forward to this job, because I'll know where everything is, everyone can come to me looking for things. I'll get to know our kitchen staff pretty well.
I think we've just brought in 6 new people to man the dish crew. Staci, one of the girls with ACMNP that I worked with, will be moved into the Pantry. I'm glad she got out, I would have felt bad if she had gotten stuck there.
Just a reminder of what some people are like around here, one of our workers was busted for underage drinking and we probably won't be seeing him again. I can't remember how many times during our training that they told us and warned us about providing alcohol to minors or having alcohol if you were underaged... poor kid.
Finally, I get back to my room after work and there are a few new bags on the floor. One of my new roommates moved in today. I'm not sure yet who the other will be, Jeremy moves out in a couple days though, maybe tomorrow. But the new guy, I must say I am pretty excited! His name is Niah (no clue if its spelled right) and he's from Hanoi, Vietnam. He seems to be a pretty quiet cool guy. He just finished his Freshman year in college in Hanoi as a Business Management major. He's been learning English for about 12 years, so he's pretty good. He's a little hard to understand at times, but he's eager to improve his English. As much as I "liked" my last roommates, I think I'm really going to enjoy having Niah here.
So that's all I've got. I keep forgetting which day of the week it is mainly because of my weird schedule, so hopefully I won't forget to work on my "sermon". I told Staci that it would be just the two of us running the services this weekend and I think she's just as nervous as I am haha. God knows what He's doing!