The Struggle

There has been many times where I have help many different people but that would be too many. Where helping someone comes the best is where I work. So at McDonald’s in Lisbon Falls there are many different positions to working with customer service, being a grill person and most of all being a manager. My title is customer service and what I do is well take customers orders and cash. That’s for front counter and drive though but I know it as deep end because it just you, the register and the dish washing area. I hate doing dishes because there are always so many and when you finally get them done and you turn around to take a order they just pile right back up. But they all have to be done before you are able to leave your shift. The worst part about it though is in the winter when it’s really cold out and your going back and forth from the window to the washing bin. But this is not about talking about my issues that is about me helping others. Now when I first started to work there I didn’t really know what to do and I’ll admit it but I was scared half the time, but I found my confidence just in time when other newbies started to come. The first person that I ever helped is my friend Ivy. She was scared at first like me but when there were nobody waiting for their order to be taken I gave he a rundown of the register and where to find different items. Once I did that she was able to find some things but very slowly. When I look back at that day I think wow I really did that and it just came natural with many different people but all places are different like the second window. At the second window your job is to make all kinds of different coffee drinks and making sure each car is given the right order. This can be really tricky where if there’s a special request with a drink and you didn’t quite get it you have to ask over the headset what it was. But sometimes things can get quicker then what you make it and you would need someone’s help with making drinks. Even grill can get a little busy when there’s only two people and you just need to step in and figure out what goes on what. I think the easiest job is cleaning.

I’m not really one for drama but somehow it always finds me and I can’t help but get dragged in. So when I comes down to it I’m always the one who resolves a fight or a breakup situation of some sort but there are some times where I’m the one who needs help. I know what your thinking right. The savier needs saving but it’s true. I don’t have the most perfect or straightforward life. There is some ups and downs but I don’t always ask for the help it sometimes just finds me. One of those times was I had a really big fight with my step mother about how our differences collided because of the different ways on how we think. Let’s take last night as an example. I was playing on my phone and i had a earbud in and just minding my own business and I did not realize that she was even talking to me and all she does is make a rude comment and when I knew something was wrong I had asked what was she saying and she got all huffy and stormed off so I decided to put my phone up and go to my room as the is my place to be but that was the wrong decision too and that’s when my father gets home and wonders what is going on and why there’s so much tension and that’s when all hell breaks loose and it happens every time where my father will step in and it always turns into him “protecting” (her words) me or sticking up for me when he supposedly never sticks up for her kids when they never got yelled at as much as I do. It still goes on to this day and there are times when I just want to leave and be done with everything. I am so grateful for the many friends that I have because they are the ones that get me thought the day and make me look forward to the next day and the day after that.

Another time was at a girl scout camp and we went down to Rhode Island in camp Hoffman with a bunch of team building to when we got there it was pitch black outside and we had to set up the ten in the dark after sitting in a car for about four and a half to five hours and being tired but it turned out to be a team building exercising. When the next day started we had a running match that we as a troop came in second with a string burning where there was different people gathering supplies and then the last thing that we did was a mystery hike through the woods before we went home.

Over all I have learned from these three experiences that we can get over many things even though they can stick with you and you will always remember them.

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