I’ve been working probably an excessive amount over the past few weeks. I invariably end up at the Shakes station, which is not surprising; ain’t nobody dip those bitches like I can.
Something I kept noticing over the past week in the shake orders: Someone would order three chocolate milkshakes and nothing else. When I go out to check tables, I usually saw three girls sitting in a booth not saying anything with three chocolate milkshakes.
They’re not taking this Justin Timberlake news well.
You ever wonder what insanity feels like? Like how do I know I’m not insane right now? Would I know it?
These are the things I think about at my new job. I’m an ITaP Lab Assistant. I mind the lab. And I’m the idiot who can’t keep the printer filled with paper when you need your precious lecture notes, you ungrateful meathead. My primary function is customer service. I’m stationed in a lab for a set number of hours and make sure things remain orderly and clean as well as answering questions from meatheads. It’s a pay cut from my other job slinging french fries, but that job is beginning to take a toll on me. I’m afraid I no longer possess the youthful physicality necessary to perform the job without impacting my “day life”, lacking a vigor blessed only upon the young or perhaps actualized for them by a tonic. But I digress. In summary, I’m old.
One of the perks is I get to use a computer and study while I’m working, which is the utterly self-serving draw that brought me to this line of work. However, I hadn’t considered the mind-crushing loneliness. Especially right now, in this empty computer lab. Who comes to do work in a computer lab on a Friday night? (Besides, you know, me.) They’re all off probably having fun or redditing from home or avoiding the cramped, dim computer lab where the lonely lab assistant is narrating ‘is blog post out loud in a ridiculously over-the-top Cockney accent.
It’s not so bad though. It’s quiet, there’s internet, and this chair has some padding still in it. But I think the air system is trying to indoctrinate me…