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[tamakun]

So the first day is over, and I have learned a LOT in the short 8 hours that I was working there. I have been shadowing Laura, the Senior/Team Leader there, and I've learned about how to process the cash for the previous day (man, shades of Canadian Tire's Cash Office, just more up-to-date!), and heck, I made the daily bank deposit, too. :)

As I was working the closing shift, most of the day's baking was done, so I was focusing on the retail, learning their cash register (what's called a Versaterm), and while I had trouble finding a lot of the particular items at first, once they handed me a Production List (what they made that day) I had to spend some time trying to find all the items so that they could be entered. Once I got that down, the rest of the day was awesome. :D (I still need to get the terminology down for all the different breads - cobs, buns, rolls, vienna, baguette, baps, loaf, mini-loaf, scroll, and so on!)

The closing requires a lot of cleanup, and COBS donates all its leftover bread to a local charity daily -- and they come in to take it, so we don't even have to worry about it! :D We just clean up the breadcrumbs that're left behind. XD I can handle dealing with the customers and keeping the retail front clean (and we did a major cleanup today in the middle of it all since the Ontario Manager and the VP stopped by for a visit!)

Near the end of the day, Laura had said that she may not be in as she kinda slipped/fell earlier, but she felt that I was pretty confident in handling myself for a day on my own -- what I remember was that the said "You don't look like you've been here only for a day, you look like you've been here for a couple of weeks already." In spirit, definitely. ^^

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You may have noticed the new icon that replaced the other Baking Layton that I had up for awhile. zillabean offered to draw a new Baking Layton for me, and I just couldn't say no! In less than a week with a little back-and-forth, and just prior to my new start, this shows up in my inbox, and I'm totally floored by it. I still keep going back to it and looking at it. :D (You know what I should do next? Mimic the pose with a COBS Bread Cob. XD)

Comments

[umadoshi.livejournal.com]

So glad it went well! And it's nice to hear about the leftover bread being donated. ^_^

[tamakun.livejournal.com]

I think I'm going to do really well, if this first day was any indicator. :D

Donating the leftover bread to charity is what COBS has been doing even in Australia/New Zealand. I am so glad to see that it's not being wasted. :)

What I noticed yesterday is that there are two more bakeries just down the street - Bread and Roses (no official website) and the Hot Oven Bakery. Apparently we get a lot of people popping their head in asking if we have the "cheap bread after 6pm" - that's Hot Oven since they're a minute's walk away. But we try to win them over by telling them that all our bread is fresh (no day-olds) and that we donate it to charity at the end of the night :)

[zillabean.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad to hear that leftovers get donated! It always breaks my heart when I hear how much waste goes on in the food industry, and how very little of it actually makes it to food kitchens and needy folks. I'm glad to hear a charity takes care of all that for you and that nothing goes to waste :)

I'm SO happy you like your new icon! It was such a joy to draw and color, and I'm so thrilled you like!

Also, even though the LJ DDoS thingywhatevers have been mostly fixed, I'm still having that weirdo problem with your journals specifically where yours is the ONLY one on my FL that I can't read the comments page from w/o getting creepy error goat. I always have to open you in your own journal window, THEN click on the comments link.

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