Hello. Today I'm writing about my new job.
I've been looking for a part time job since last fall. At first I was very hesitant to work in fast food, I wanted to work in some sort of retail store. I applied to a LOT of different places, Food Lion, Target, Walmart, Big Lots, Walgreens, CVS, everywhere. Most places did not even call me back or contact me in any way after I filled out the online application. A month or two ago I had finally stooped down to applying to McDonalds, and it was looking like that was a possibility. I still need a lot of hours driving in order to get my driver's license, so I was out one day driving with my mom when we stopped at Waffle House. We ate their for lunch and it was pretty good, and mom pointed out a Now Hiring brochure on the table. At the time McDonald's was looking like I was going to be hired, but I had to try applying there too just in case. I applied online and within a day, someone had called me asking to schedule an interview there. It was the fastest I'd ever been contacted by any place I had applied to, and of course I accepted the interview. I went to the interview and it was mostly just a couple questions you would expect, mostly just clarifying things I had on the online application. The interview went very well, and they scheduled a second interview. The second interview was mostly about what I would be doing there at Waffle House. The manager said that he would like to make me a Door Corp, which is someone that comes in on the weekends and greets people, seats them, and cleans tables after they leave. Eventually he said he would make me a Grill Op, which is a cook. I thought that sounded great, and he wanted to quickly get me to start my classes so I could get started working. The only problem was that the classes were only on Thursdays and Fridays, during school hours. Unfortunately I had to wait until school was out to take those classes so I could start work. The Thursday after school was out I showed up to the Waffle House in Inwood for my interview in my black pants, black shoes, and white dress shirt. The classes were very boring and we sat in a very small, cold, back room filling out huge Waffle House books and watching cheesy information videos. I was very glad when it was over on Friday. Last Monday was when I was first working on the floor at the Waffle House I had applied to. I was getting paid of course but I wasn't getting any tips because I was shadowing another server in her section, so I took my own orders, but it was all in her section and she taught me a lot about how the restaurant worked. Tuesday was also a day where I was shadowing, and I quickly became sufficient at taking orders and calling them out to the cooks, which is the hardest parts about being a server. Last Thursday I had to go to the Inwood Waffle House one last time in order to get my Red Star Certification, which is what you need to be an official server at Waffle House. I got my certification easily enough, and showed up for my first real day working that Saturday at 6:30. It was pretty busy compared to the other two days I had been working there, but according to my coworkers it was slow for a weekend. I served twenty tables over the course of seven hours, and I did side work in between like filling up the ice containers, working the dishpit, and cleaning off tables. At the end of my first work day I was very tired and a little stressed from all the busyness, but I had come out of it with $59 worth of tips, and that was awesome.
Having a job is really great and although it's going to be tiring and sometimes stressful, it feels good to be doing it. Bye.
- By Ashton
The Grey Jack Frost
Sunday, June 19, 2016
Sunday, June 12, 2016
Leap Day
Hello. Today I'm reviewing another mobile game.
The game is called Leap Day, and I'm reviewing it for iOS. The game is titled Leap Day because every day there's a new jumping puzzle level consisting of 15 parts. It's a very innovate game in that it literally produces more content for you play every day. Theoretically you could keep playing it and every day it would be new. You play as a small yellow creature with a green nose and the ability to jump once or twice in midair. The levels are scrolling platformers. There are walls on either side of the screen that limit your horizontal movement, but the level progresses by traveling upwards. Your character walks from left to right on the screen, turning back around when he comes into contact with a wall, or dying if he hits a hazard or monster. You tap the screen to make him jump, the character can double jump off of the ground. If it falls off of a platform, it can make two jumps because it didn't use a jump to leave the platform. It can also jump onto and off of walls, and off of monsters it jumps onto. Each level is comprised of 15 parts. In each part there are obstacles, hazards, and monsters that make it hard to finish that section. If you pass over the red banners at the top of the section, then you can unlock a checkpoint in case you die in the next section. To unlock a checkpoint you jump into a room through a door that opens up off the right side of the level. In the room there are two chests, if you jump into one chest you can buy the checkpoint with 20 fruit. There are fruit located throughout the entire level that can be dangerous to acquire, they function to keep track of your score. If you don't have twenty fruit, you can bump into the second chest which will unlock the checkpoint if you watch an add. If you jump into another room next to that one, you can bump into a chest to buy the premium version of the game for only a few dollars. The premium version is the same except when you jump into a checkpoint room there is only one large chest that will unlock the checkpoint for free. The checkpoints are numbered 1-15, starting at 15. The screen that shows all the levels is a calendar, with a level every day going all the way back to when the game was released. If you pass checkpoint 10, you earn a bronze trophy for that level on the calendar. If you pass checkpoint 5, you get s silver trophy. If you finish the level, you get a gold trophy, and if you finish the level and collect every fruit you get a crown with an apple. After completing checkpoint 1, you jump above a banner platform with black and white finish line colors. You jump up onto a late red button on an enormous trophy to complete the level. The trophy will total the percent of fruit you found, and if you found them all a crown and an apple will sprout from the trophy. Each level has a different back ground behind the obstacles, like a forest, or a castle, or even space. Every level is filled with countless hazards like spikes, sawblades, or fire. The number of monsters in each level is staggering, with things like purple crawlers that spit at you or large electric octopi.
I highly recommend getting Leap Day free on the App Store if you're ready for a daily dose of fun. Bye.
- By Ashton
The game is called Leap Day, and I'm reviewing it for iOS. The game is titled Leap Day because every day there's a new jumping puzzle level consisting of 15 parts. It's a very innovate game in that it literally produces more content for you play every day. Theoretically you could keep playing it and every day it would be new. You play as a small yellow creature with a green nose and the ability to jump once or twice in midair. The levels are scrolling platformers. There are walls on either side of the screen that limit your horizontal movement, but the level progresses by traveling upwards. Your character walks from left to right on the screen, turning back around when he comes into contact with a wall, or dying if he hits a hazard or monster. You tap the screen to make him jump, the character can double jump off of the ground. If it falls off of a platform, it can make two jumps because it didn't use a jump to leave the platform. It can also jump onto and off of walls, and off of monsters it jumps onto. Each level is comprised of 15 parts. In each part there are obstacles, hazards, and monsters that make it hard to finish that section. If you pass over the red banners at the top of the section, then you can unlock a checkpoint in case you die in the next section. To unlock a checkpoint you jump into a room through a door that opens up off the right side of the level. In the room there are two chests, if you jump into one chest you can buy the checkpoint with 20 fruit. There are fruit located throughout the entire level that can be dangerous to acquire, they function to keep track of your score. If you don't have twenty fruit, you can bump into the second chest which will unlock the checkpoint if you watch an add. If you jump into another room next to that one, you can bump into a chest to buy the premium version of the game for only a few dollars. The premium version is the same except when you jump into a checkpoint room there is only one large chest that will unlock the checkpoint for free. The checkpoints are numbered 1-15, starting at 15. The screen that shows all the levels is a calendar, with a level every day going all the way back to when the game was released. If you pass checkpoint 10, you earn a bronze trophy for that level on the calendar. If you pass checkpoint 5, you get s silver trophy. If you finish the level, you get a gold trophy, and if you finish the level and collect every fruit you get a crown with an apple. After completing checkpoint 1, you jump above a banner platform with black and white finish line colors. You jump up onto a late red button on an enormous trophy to complete the level. The trophy will total the percent of fruit you found, and if you found them all a crown and an apple will sprout from the trophy. Each level has a different back ground behind the obstacles, like a forest, or a castle, or even space. Every level is filled with countless hazards like spikes, sawblades, or fire. The number of monsters in each level is staggering, with things like purple crawlers that spit at you or large electric octopi.
I highly recommend getting Leap Day free on the App Store if you're ready for a daily dose of fun. Bye.
- By Ashton
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