First time working~

Hi people, it's me again after so long~ I'll be telling you guys about my experience throughout during my first time working- The events that occured... I was actually pretty nervous about my first time working and it’s for a catering event. What made it worse was that it is a pretty big event where you have to meet and serve a large group of people. At the beginning, I was actually pretty reluctant to go and work because of the timing as I am doing C.I.P early next morning which will probably make my body too tired. But what had kept me ‘enthusiastic’ about the job was I could apply what I had learnt in my poly into real life working conditions and I had also wanted to experience what it’s like to be working behind the scenes during a dinner function. During the day of the job itself, my friend had originally wanted to meet up together but it was also with other friends also which had made me pretty reluctant as I don’t like to go out in mixed groups of friends as it’s very troublesome plus I don’t wanna waste the tiny amount on transport fare to go to the meeting place. But after meeting them, things went pretty well I suppose which had somehow changed my overall perception of such outings for now BUT I still have my reservations. Guess I'm kinna anti-social then? When we had reached the place where the catering event was to be help which was the Singapore Expo, we had actually gone to the wrong meeting place as my friends and I had gone to the meeting place where those hired by the agency are supposed to meet. We ended up walking quite some distance and even asked the concierge in the expo for directions to our meeting place which was the expo loading bay. My friends and I ended up reaching the place ‘late’ I suppose but luckily for us, the ones in charge are still taking down attendance of the hired waiters but we were one the last few to take down our attendance.. hahas. After the attendance taking, we sat down for a while before we went to place our bags inside the café for safety purposes before sitting back down together again. After a while, the manager called us up and separated us into groups. Sadly enough, I was separated from my friend( plus one of my friends was from the agency side so he wasn't there also) and I was placed together with my new friend. The group that I was placed in was pretty unique as it has only 4 boys and 6 girls so we were lacking of boys who are supposed to act as runners to carry the food. We were briefly introduced to our team manager and he gave us an detailed instruction what what we were supposed to do like how to carry the various courses and handling of trays, checking of table setting and how to properly serve the guests. ‘Luckily’ enough, my new friend and I were made to do slave labour by the team manager and some of the event coordinators like the carrying and placement of the ice packs into the proper position and the carrying of heavy water jugs via trolleys and placing them in the correct position. One problem that I had encounterd was that I don’t quite understand the ‘pronunciation’ or the words of what we were supposed to do by one of the Chinese event coordinators :p After all that slave labor, my friends and I were released for a long lunch or dinner break to prepare for the actual service which was going to start soon. The food offered was rather simple: Some rice, noodles and chicken/fish nuggets that’s all and I took double portions hahas :p My friends and I then went to talk for a while and my friends was discussing about his difficulty of getting a clean and proper break from his ex-girlfriend but she had still wanted to attend a class outing which was gonna happen soon. After the meal, we began the final preparations which was the placing of the bread and ‘appetizer’ which flooded the entire table.. Oh my.. That had indeed caused some minor problems in placing the food on the table. After that we had waited some time before the guests started coming in and we were made to stand and wait for the guests to come for so so so so long and I had to deal with the ‘funky’ music whicle standing and waiting :/ When the guests actually arrived, we had to place the napkins on their legs and asked for their preference of drinks. Some guests were well-dressed while some were dressed rather fancily which really appealed out or were just hilarious :p What made the whole thing really fun was the actually serving of food to the guests. During the queuing up to carry the food, we were just playing around and were just discussing about some stuff and the food that they had served. It was really interesting during those times. Soon after we had carried the food into the eating area, the servers( which were the girls except for one) were very efficient as they had helped to carry the food to serve to the various guests in sequence starting from the last table furthest from the door to the kitchen. We, the runners and the sercers had formed pretty good combos as we had performed our jobs efficiently. We had also assisted each other in the handling of drinks and the clearing of plates from the guests table. Inevitably, we had encounted troublesome guests which were creating trouble by asking for things such as food or drinks and hen rejecting them after we had prepared and carried it to them. Despet that, the guests were pretty good and they were dancing along the rick Ashley’s wonderful and ‘hilarious’ as he had told the guests to stand up and shake their asses LOLOLOLOLOLOL! Overall, it was an rather enjoyable working experience despite the fact that I had regrettably not exchanged numbers with them and one the girls were pretty nice too. We met up together afterwards and went to take attendance again before we received our pay directly. It was a rather ‘fun celebration’ afterwards and we went our separate ways as we had missed our last train of the day amd the taxi fare was rather expensive- $10 surcharge OMG. I had ended up taking the same cab with my new friend back home because my friends had ABANDONED me to go walking all the way from Choa Chu Kang area… Siao sia I really do hope that I can have more chances of working at such catering events :D To infinity and beyond~~~