A lady who works at the deli Saturday’s is leaving, so I am filling in for her. She has multiple jobs and can’t handle the deli. Although she isn’t leaving permanently she isn’t going to be there every Saturday anymore. However, I will be working with her alone on an upcoming weekend. From what I had heard about her, the other employees said I probably knew more than her. Gossipers.

I met her today and she jabbered nonstop. There wasn’t a customer who didn’t hear something about her personal life. She said “you’re so quiet, you hardly say anything” and other permutations so many times I lost count. When I work, I go to work to work, not to talk up a storm. I do my business and I learn my position. Today I learned how to make sandwiches that I had never made before.

Just because I am quiet or don’t talk much does not mean I don’t talk at all. I do my job and ask the customers what they need, and get what they want for them. That is, assuming I know how to perform the task essential to obtaining what they want. The only thing I do not actively do is slice meat and cheeses for customers present. I have ran the slicer to make hoagies for pick up and for pre-made hoagies sold in the deli.

Saturday’s are supposed to be hectic and crazy nonstop. Today was so slow and boring, that at one point we were all sitting down in back. I thought the lady wasn’t working today and I would just be with the bosses’ son but the three of us worked. Probably due to the fact I’ll only be working with her one weekend instead. They were talking at one point and said “He doesn’t joke around.”

I do my job and get it done, which is precisely why I am looking to buy a new flat screen TV.