"Sorry, didnt work out. I tried, and I did my very best"

My appearance at work is still questionable, and unacceptable to the manager at my afternoon job. Plus they werent happy for last Saturday party that I left work at 2:15am, earlier than others, and left them stayed until the party over after 3am. So they called me in to talk when I showed up this afternoon around 4:30pm, a little later than I normally do.

I always finish from the Sandwich Planet at 3:30pm, and run to Prem-On Thai around 4. But my only uniform was dirty, so Daniel did laundry for me in the morning when I left for work. He dropped it off before I left the Sandwich place. Poor me, left it under the counter, and reallised myself when I almost got to Prem-On Thai. So i had to ride back to the Sandwich to pick it up. Then I showed up at 4:30pm, not 4pm as usual.

Manager: "Are you happy to work here?"

Me: "Do you wanna hear the truth? NO, never been happy since I got here."

"What's wrong?"

"I dont know what direction of your restaurant going to?? High-end?? Freindly trend restaurant?? Or fast-paced oriental Thai restaurant?? There is no such a committed standardment of this place"

"I think we re not very high-end, and we re not like old customed thai restaurant. We re in between."

"What is in between?? Good, not so good, but not too bad neither type?? You have the meeting the other day for the procedure of service, blah, blah, blah, that we have to follow. It's so for a very fancy restaurant, pull out the chair for customers, fold napkins when they left table, show em the way to bathroom door. No, this is not me. I hardly follow those things."

"So you dont agree with my decision??"

"No, coz those things are for very pricey restaurant. We re in between, like you mentioned, you dont need to reach that standrad. I dont agree with that. I made 30 bucks for tip a night, and 50 on friday and saturday night. This is not acceptable, and cant be counted as a nice working environment for financial purposes of me"

At face-to face discussion with my manager, he gave me a hard time by disciplining me. Starting from overall of my performance at work is quite low. At dinnertime, employees have to be in at 3:30pm, but me, who always come in at 4, as a favored exception from the former manager who accepted me in. Then he asked if I could be in at same time with others, I said "No". I have to work there till 3:30pm, coz they pay me hourly plus tip. But not here, I make only $10 all night from 4 to 12 plus tip. It's not fair if I have to cut my hour overthere.

Then he move further to other things that I performed during at work are unacceptable;

• too much socialized with co-workers,
  

• eat before starting to work,
  

• talked bad about customers who left cheap tips
  

• very picky, and always picked the lighter jobs, and left others work harder
  

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