A brief update on my life.
Dec. 15th, 2010 08:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xiphiasThings are good.
Anyway, yesterday, at work, we were expecting a party of 15 people to show up at 3:30. I tend to do most of my prep for the evening between, oh, 2 and 4 or so, which is the slack time between lunch and dinner (we're still open, but there are fewer guests), so I made sure to be done with prep on the early side.
Then, at 3, about fifteen people came in. I asked if they were the party we were waiting for, and they said, no, they hadn't called ahead or anything -- they had all just been laid off, their entire department.
Vincent bought their first round for them. They stayed for quite some time -- some of them were still there when I left at 7. They drank, and played Buzztime Trivia (we have a subscription to a nationwide trivia service -- after each game, each player is ranked against the other players in the bar, but also, each bar is ranked against each other), and actually had a pretty good Irish wake for their jobs.
Tuesday afternoons are not typically busy. But we were really hopping yesterday.
Anyway, yesterday, at work, we were expecting a party of 15 people to show up at 3:30. I tend to do most of my prep for the evening between, oh, 2 and 4 or so, which is the slack time between lunch and dinner (we're still open, but there are fewer guests), so I made sure to be done with prep on the early side.
Then, at 3, about fifteen people came in. I asked if they were the party we were waiting for, and they said, no, they hadn't called ahead or anything -- they had all just been laid off, their entire department.
Vincent bought their first round for them. They stayed for quite some time -- some of them were still there when I left at 7. They drank, and played Buzztime Trivia (we have a subscription to a nationwide trivia service -- after each game, each player is ranked against the other players in the bar, but also, each bar is ranked against each other), and actually had a pretty good Irish wake for their jobs.
Tuesday afternoons are not typically busy. But we were really hopping yesterday.
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Date: 2010-12-15 07:05 pm (UTC)I want to punch something. Need to stop typing.
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Date: 2010-12-16 12:25 am (UTC)Which they already had.
Because they'd already bought it.
For the birthday of one of them.
They didn't eat it in the office, but, well, they had a bar/restaurant to eat it in, anyway.
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Date: 2010-12-16 03:09 am (UTC)This was in/near Kendall, right? I wonder what company.
I'm secular so I can't pray for those people, but my heart and my thoughts go out to each and every one of them. Especially the birthday person.
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Date: 2010-12-16 03:48 am (UTC)