Chapter 8: The First Day of the Night Shift
"Hey, is it Lin Duo?"
"Yes, may I ask who you are?"
"Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot to let you save my phone, last night's interview, do you remember?"
"Well, remember, I remember, you are Manager Ma, Manager Ma of Cigarette Rose, right?"
"Mmmm, it's me, what are you thinking about when you go back yesterday? Will you come to work tonight?"
"Yes, we go to work at eight o'clock in the evening, right?" Lin Duo glanced at his watch, the current time is 17:30, and there is still half an hour to get off the day shift.
"Yes, I'm just sure if you're going to come to work tonight, I hope you don't mind, because there are a lot of girls who come to the interview, and few of them come to work after they leave. The front desk, which is now on the night shift, will leave in a few days. I'm sorry, but I really shouldn't have told you that. ”
"It's okay, don't worry, I'll be over tonight. Well, that, can I ask a question?"
"What a problem, please speak. ”
"You just said that the front desk is leaving, in other words, it won't be long before I'm working the night shift alone, right?"
"Alas, yes, it's getting harder and harder to recruit the front desk of nightclubs nowadays, especially in regular nightclubs like ours, where most of the young girls go to work in bars. But don't take it personally, although there are not enough people, we will always recruit people, and the online job postings have never been offline. I think it won't be long before someone comes in for another interview. ”
This sentence is completely to stabilize Lin Duo, Lin Duo is not stupid, she understands.
"Well, then, I'll be over on time tonight. ”
After hanging up the phone, Lin Duo put the phone on the table, straightened up, and leaned back on the chair for a long time, feeling a little sour.
"I'll send you over tonight, Sister Lin. Chen Yu said.
"Thank you, Chen Yu, but I can do it myself, I remember the way there. Lindo said. She lied, she had only been there once, and she didn't remember the way there at all, she just said this so as not to cause trouble to Chen Yu.
"Do you really remember? You've only been there once, can you really remember the route?" Chen Yu was a little uneasy.
"Really, don't worry, I have a good memory. Lin Duo said, with a rare bright smile on her face, which was enough to dispel the doubts of others.
"Okay, but if there's anything, be sure to contact me, I'm off the night shift, and if there's nothing wrong, I'll come and see you. Chen Yu said, her tone full of concern.
Lin Duo looked at her with some gratitude in his heart.
After getting off work, Lin Duo left in a hurry, Chen Yu still wanted to give her a ride, but unfortunately Bai Yang had something to discuss with her, saying that there were some small problems with the report, and she couldn't solve it by herself, and she needed experienced Chen Yu to help. Chen Yu was a little disappointed, but he could only stay and help Bai Yang sort out the information.
Lin Duo ate something casually on the street, and after eating, he looked at his watch, the time is still early to go to work, if this will pass, it is estimated that he will have to wait. Thinking of this, she suddenly realized a problem, and that was how to get to cigarette roses.
At first she thought she would be willing to walk over and walk home after work if she could. But when she opened the map software on her mobile phone and searched for it, she immediately gave up, because the cigarette rose KTV was 4 kilometers away from where she lived, which made her feel that she really couldn't afford to toss.
So, what to do? The problem is that she doesn't have transportation, if only she could have a bicycle. Lin Duo looked around, most of the shops around him were in the catering business, and it was difficult to have a shop like a bicycle near such a living area. She walked around and found a garage in the alley not far away, and it occurred to her that maybe there was something she was looking for. So he walked briskly towards there.
The shop was small, dirty from the inside out, with years of dirt deposited on the floor, black oil and dirt mixed together, sticking to the floor, making it feel like stepping on it would stick your shoes. The shop was dark, damp and empty, as if there was no one but the dirty fan on the ceiling spinning lonely.
"Excuse me, anyone?" Lin Duo tried to shout inside, maybe his voice was a little quiet, and he didn't answer for a long time.
Lin Duo cleared her throat and tried to shout again, this time she raised her voice slightly.
"Excuse me, anyone?"
The black door of the room opened, revealing a crack, and the sound of slippers tapping from inside. A middle-aged man walked out, his hair unkempt, glanced at Lin Duo, and asked, "Repair the car?"
Lin Duo said, "Oh no, may I ask, do you sell bicycles here?"
The man's face showed a disappointed expression when he heard this, and although he was still standing there, his upper body obviously turned around.
Lin Duo looked at the store, which was full of brand-new battery cars, but did not find the bicycle she wanted to buy, although disappointed, but she still did not want to give up, and continued to ask: "So, are there second-hand bicycles? If so, I want to buy them." ”
The man had long lost his patience and said impatiently: "No, there are only battery cars here, not bicycles, where will anyone buy bicycles now." ”
The man's attitude made Lin Duo a little disgusted, but it was right to think about it, in this era, who else would buy a bicycle? When she was in college, she bought a battery car. Looking at the man's expression, Lin Duo felt that he was wasting the other party's time, so he said, "Oh, I'm sorry, I'm sorry to disturb." ”
Just as she turned to leave, the man stopped her and said, "I still have second-hand battery cars in my shop, do you want to take a look?"
Lin Duo stopped and turned around, a glint flashing in the man's eyes.
"Won't it be expensive?" asked Lin Duo.
The man didn't answer, but walked into the last row of the shop, pointed there, and said, "Well, you can come and have a look." ”
Lin Duo walked over, and the man pointed to the so-called second-hand battery cars, most of those cars were old, although it could be seen that they had been washed, but it was still difficult to hide the old appearance. Lin Duo wanted to choose, but the few broken cars made her lose the reason to choose. So he pointed to a slightly newer car and asked, "How much does this cost?"
The boss squinted and said, "No counteroffer, 500." ”
500, hearing this price, Lin Duo was a little excited, this was the price in her heart, but she still said quietly: "500, how can it be so expensive?
The man's eyes widened when he heard this, and then his face showed the same impatient expression as before, and he said bluntly: "I can't see where this car is expensive, to be honest, I didn't plan to sell this broken car to customers, because almost no one will come to buy these broken cars, of course, I didn't expect to make a few bucks from these broken cars, I was going to sell them to scrap collectors at one time, I just tried to ask you, but I didn't expect you to think it was expensive." Forget it, let's just take it as if I didn't mention it. ”
Lin Duo paused for a moment, then didn't say anything, walked towards the door, pretending to leave, she carefully peeked at the shopkeeper out of the corner of her eye as she walked, and found that he muttered a few words, walked into the house without looking back, and closed the door hard. Lin Duo was a little disappointed, it seemed that the other party really had a discarded attitude towards those broken cars. So he re-entered the shop, came to the black door, and knocked.
The man opened the door, still with an impatient expression on his face.
"500 is 500, I bought it. Lin Duo said.
The shopkeeper's face was calm, as if he had known that she would compromise, then sighed, came out and walked to the broken car, squatted down to look at the bottom of the car, and said: "The battery of this car can no longer be used, and it can hardly be charged with a little electricity." If you really want to buy it, add another 1000, and I will replace it with a new battery for you, so that there will be no power failure and leakage in two or three years. What do you think?"
Lin Duo looked at the other party's overlord-like expression, and the patience in her heart was about to run out, she really wanted to leave, but then she would also lose this cheap broken car. I had no choice but to agree.
A quarter of an hour later, Lin Duo rode the battery car out of the alley.
The door opened slightly, and a waiter walked in and said to the man in the chair, "Manager, the front desk has left." ”
"Gone?"
"Yes, let's go, and tell you that she doesn't want this month's salary. ”
"Why are they all like this!" Ma Jun, who was sitting on the sofa, had a disappointed and annoyed expression.
"So manager, do you want me to take the place of the front desk first? The front desk of the night shift has not yet come. ”
"Alright, let's go. Ma Jun waved his hand impatiently. Now he is irritable and has an attitude of indifference to everything. Recently, the company has been doing too much, the employee has resigned, and the boss is about to open a branch again, so he is coming up with ideas and wants the new store to be better than the business here. But his boss refused to adopt his opinion, which made him not have a headache.
Ma Jun walked out of the office and was about to check the account book, when he suddenly thought of Lin Duo. The girl was the only receptionist on the night shift, and if she didn't come to work and was busy at night, he would have to sit at the front desk to receive guests. He glanced up at the wall clock on the wall, and it was still half an hour before the start of work. She'll be here in a moment, right?" Ma Jun muttered to himself, turning around and going back to his office.
The positioning of the mobile phone was a little off, and Lin Duo was led to another place, and he couldn't find the cigarette rose KTV after looking for a long time nearby. She was starting to get a little anxious because there was still half an hour left before the start of work, and she didn't want to be late for the first day of work. At this time, the phone rang.
"Hey, Lin Duo?"
"Hello, Manager Ma. ”
"Uh-huh, where are you now?"
"I didn't know, I was on the wrong path and couldn't find where I could go to work. There was a mistake in the navigation that led me to an unfamiliar place. ”
"Oh, I see, so can you find here?"
"I think so, re-downloading a navigation should be fine. ”
"Okay, stay safe on the road. ”
After hanging up the phone, Ma Jun walked into the office, recalling the interview scene that day, Lin Duo sat cautiously aside, almost not speaking, but the girl next to her consulted in detail. Just now he wanted to tell Lin Duo that if he couldn't find here, he would drive to pick her up. But when the words came to his lips, he did not say them.
Fifteen minutes later, Lin Duo found the place to work, and the new navigation software had a low error rate, allowing Lin Duo to catch up with the time. She parked the car in the battery car area of the parking lot next to her and walked into the cigarette rose KTV.
The waiter at the front desk recognized her at a glance and said, "Manager Ma is in the office and wants you to go." ”
Lin Duo drove to the door of the office, calmed down and knocked on the door.
"Please come in. ”
Lin Duo pushed open the door and walked in, Ma Jun was sitting on the sofa, pointing to the seat next to him with a smile, and said, "Sit down." ”
Lin Duo sat down, Ma Jun took out an entry form, and said, "Do the entry first, fill in these." ”
Lin Duo sat there filling out the entry form, and Ma Jun watched her. Lin Duo is wearing professional clothes today, light gray trousers and white shirt, with a strong workplace atmosphere. Although there is no trace of fashion elements on the body, it gives people a fresh and generous feeling.
Ma Jun watched her write stroke by stroke, it seemed to be a momentary illusion, he felt that Lin Duo had a special temperament on his body, which was depriving him of his attention little by little, and he glanced at her from time to time.
"Manager, it's written. Lin Duo pushed the entry form in front of Ma Jun's eyes.
Ma Jun glanced at it and said, "Very good, the characters are very beautiful, have you practiced before?"
Lin Duo nodded embarrassedly.
Ma Jun got up and walked to the cabinet, and while feeling the key, he asked, "What size of clothes do you usually wear?"
Lin Duo said, "L is fine." ”
Ma Jun opened the cabinet, found two sets of L-size overalls from inside and handed them to Lin Duo, saying, "Forget the deposit, these two sets of overalls are new, you should wear them properly." ”
Lin Duo took it, looked at it, and said, "Okay, thank you." So, where is the locker room?"
Ma Jun said: "I'll take you there, the women's locker room is on the first floor, a room on the side of the corridor." ”
Lin Duo followed Ma Jun to the locker room, Ma Jun opened the door, and the two walked in. Ma Jun pointed to a pile of clothes on the ground and said, "This house has time to clean up." ”
Lin Duo responded. Ma Jun wanted to say something, but he couldn't think of anything to say, so he turned around and closed the door.
A few minutes later, Lin Duo walked out and happened to see Ma Jun, which startled her, and hurriedly took two steps back and leaned against the door.
Ma Jun looked Lin Duo up and down, the white shirt and black overalls on Lin Duo's body, although simple but generous, he nodded and said, "Very good, very formal." Ma Jun's eyes made Lin Duo a little uncomfortable, she was not used to being stared at like this, so she said: "Manager, is there anything I need to learn about the work at the front desk?"
Ma Jun came back to his senses, exhaled and said, "Follow me." ”