Showing posts with label lesson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lesson. Show all posts
Friday, November 4, 2011
Lessons from the Lunchlady: it's all soup to me
It's Friday! You know what that means...it is time to review what we have learned in the cafeteria.
The computer likes to taunt me. Every day, when logging off of the computer in the cafeteria, it asks "Do you really want to quit?". So. Freakin'. Bad. I can't shake the I HATE MY FREAKIN JOB blues. Why? I'm not sure. Morale in the entire building is very low, the kids are increasingly rude and disrespectful and I often feel like a maid. Anyone have any spare happy pills?
Requiring manners makes for a slow moving lunch line. As stated above, rude kids push my buttons so my boss and I have decided to wait for a please and a thank you before releasing their tray. You'd be surprised to find out just how long some of the kids will stand there as they try to figure out what we are waiting for. Our hope is that after 30 days it will become a habit.
The computer likes to taunt me. Every day, when logging off of the computer in the cafeteria, it asks "Do you really want to quit?". So. Freakin'. Bad. I can't shake the I HATE MY FREAKIN JOB blues. Why? I'm not sure. Morale in the entire building is very low, the kids are increasingly rude and disrespectful and I often feel like a maid. Anyone have any spare happy pills?
Requiring manners makes for a slow moving lunch line. As stated above, rude kids push my buttons so my boss and I have decided to wait for a please and a thank you before releasing their tray. You'd be surprised to find out just how long some of the kids will stand there as they try to figure out what we are waiting for. Our hope is that after 30 days it will become a habit.
Mashed Potatoes are hard to draw. I lamented a few weeks ago about the dificulties I had drawing corn but they were nothing compared to the challenges I faced attempting to draw mashed potatoes. I knew I was in trouble when those kids started asking for soup.
You don't know how much you'll miss someone until they're gone. Our custodian needed to take a few days off this week and let me tell you that ain't fun. Suddenly the garbage, the floors and the tray dumping all fell on the cafeteria staff. Thumbs up to our principal, who isn't afraid to get a little messy.
Mental Health Days are recommended. I took today off. I spent it with my good friend, who also took the day off.
We went shopping at a craft warehouse and I got lots of goodies.
You don't know how much you'll miss someone until they're gone. Our custodian needed to take a few days off this week and let me tell you that ain't fun. Suddenly the garbage, the floors and the tray dumping all fell on the cafeteria staff. Thumbs up to our principal, who isn't afraid to get a little messy.
Mental Health Days are recommended. I took today off. I spent it with my good friend, who also took the day off.
We went shopping at a craft warehouse and I got lots of goodies.
And we drank our lunch.
I might actually be able to face that computer on Monday without saying "HELL YEAH I WANNA QUIT"
What did you learn this week?
What did you learn this week?
Friday, April 29, 2011
Lessons from the Lunchlady: short weeks, long days
This week was very short. Only three days but for some reason it felt much longer. I can't really explain it, but these three days felt like nine.
Here's what I learned.
- chicken, chicken, chicken. We served lunch three days this week. Two of those days we served chicken. One day we had chicken tenders--the kids only get two and they complain the entire time. Of course, if they actually ate the broccoli, the Alfredo noodles, and the fruit they are given they wouldn't be STARVING when they got home, but alas they only eat the processed chicken parts.
- fortune cookies. Attention fortune cookie manufacturers--I would like to suggest three things: (1) Stop putting SOY in your cookies. This limits our ability to serve them. (2) Pick an oil: Either peanut, soybean, or vegetable but pick one. When you put things on your label that indicate that the cookies could have been made with this or may have been made with that you not only look stupid but you limit our ability to serve them. (3) This one may be the most important. Come up with fortunes kids would care about and can understand. When a 5-year old opens a fortune about meeting love at work it is meaningless to them. Here are a few suggestions: Math will be easy for you today-- You are Great at Reading --Your next birthday will be the bestest ever! -- Your Lunch lady is Really a Princess.
- Zippers. I thought urine in the lunch line was bad but this week we may have had something more...here's what I know. I'm serving lunch. It's 1st grade. Suddenly at least five girls all start saying the same things. They include: "He's taking something out of his pants." "Why is he touching his zipper." "Don't do that!" "EWWWWWW...." I don't know what happened but I sent him to the office with his lunch tray.
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| Guess where the valve is? **hint** Carrots really shouldn't have legs.. |
- Helium balloons. My co-worker used to work at a balloon factory or something like that. She is a jack of all trades. She can easily manipulate a straw into a helium balloon and through the valve so she can suck the helium and manipulate her voice to sound like Alvin from the Chipmunks. **FYI: This really isn't a marketable skill** For me, it's difficult to watch if balloon looks like a giant carrot with legs and the valve is located where it's zipper should be.
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- kisatrtle
- I'm a 41 year old (gasp) freelance writer, school cafeteria manager, wife and mother. I have three children and one anxious and overweight beagle. I use my blog to make others laugh, to share some cool crafts, to document my lunchlady adventures and to lament about the challenges faced by us all on the journey called life. Thanks for visiting. Please leave some crack...um...I meant some comments.
