21/03/12 - marks the last day I am working partime at Korean BBQ Restaurant.
Never would I expected to end so fast.
But this is the very day that I felt my pride was hurt to the max.
I usually reached the restaurant at 6pm something.
So, I usually missed out orders which were taken before I reach.
It's either the other girls helped to write it down or I would ask them directly if they've not written anything.
There's this one friend of boss.
Who is a total pervert.
He has been in the restaurant last night with another 4 more people.
But tonight, he is here alone, eating and drinking with the boss.
The thing I hate him the most was his eyes.
He tends to look at us from head to toe in a different way, right in front of us.
Then he'll say something to the boss in korean, and they both laugh together.
TOTAL PERVERTNESS.
When the boss went to the toilet,
This pervert suddenly came inside and talked loudly.
Started touching our hands and even slapped my ass.
Then he moved forward to touch Ija's waist and face.
FTW.
We all try to bear with it and just simply rejected him softly.
As we all knew, we cannot offend him in any way.
Since he is a friend of our boss.
When the boss returned, he quickily pulled him and the chef outside to his table.
After that, he came back in and said he wanted to pay for his bill.
Last night, his bill was paid by our boss.
I didn expect him to ask for the bill so soon.
As usual, the bill was empty since I arrived late just now.
I asked Ija and she pin-pointed all his orders.
When I asked him to reconfirm are all the orders correct, he said no, this and that.
Due to he cannot speak nor understand English, he blurted a lot of korean words that none of us can even understand.
Then I told him I will go ask the boss and the chef to reconfirm his orders first.
He blocked our way and shake his head and hands telling us we do not have to go ask.
I paused and I just assumed I got the orders correct.
Thinking that the boss would not really charge his friend for the full amount.
I handed the bill over to him.
After he left the money on the counter, he went out complaining to the boss.
We both cannot understand a thing because their conversations are fully in korean.
Our boss walked in and checked his bill.
Suddenly he angrily slammed the bill book and said loudly "THIS IS WHAT YOU ASKED HIM TO PAY? THAT'S WHY YOU NO GOOD."
Me and Ija stand there stunned and trying to understand what had happened.
After that, he went out with his friend, back to the table.
Not long after that, me and Ija were both summoned to the table.
The boss asked why I wrote the orders like that.
So, I explained everything from the starting where I have not arrive the restaurant, to where his friend asked us not to come out and ask.
Then, he said loudly to Ija "IJA, THIS IS WHAT HE ORDER? YOU DUNNO WHAT HE ORDER YA?"
Boss and his friend started to speak in korean again.
By their facial expression and body language, I can guessed that they were talking bad things about us.
The pervert friend even pointed this and that, doing the hand sign on the head, I think he probably mean us both are stupid.
Not only our boss is not standing up for us, he even talked loudly the whole time right on our faces.
In the end he said angrily to the both of us "HE ORDERED SOJU FOUR, DWAEJIGALBI TWO, BEER ONE, KOFCHANG TWO, WHAT IS THIS RUBBISH ON THE BILL"
Upon saying that sentence, he threw the bill book and pen towards me, I ended up going to pick it up on the floor.
The last word I heard from our boss was "DEDUCT FROM SALARY" before I walk into the counter.
I cried after the boss and his friend left.
This is the first time I felt such a humiliation and disrespect.
I guessed the boss didn't even hear what I explained earlier.
He just wanted to stand up for his friend.
Ija and the chef comforted me.
Ija felt so unfair, she said "dia mana da order kofchang, seafood bah tu, sia tau apa yang serve bagi dia, tu daging pun bukan dwaejigalbi tapi chadolbaki tu."
Although the chef could not understand us but he agreed with Ija's statement, he also pointed out the orders on the menu and said what I wrote was correct.
That's when we realized the guy must have been doing this on purpose.
Even if I did extra count him on the bill, 100% he will tell the boss that he did not order this and that.
No matter how we do it, we will always be at the wrong side.
Nonsense guy with a nonsense attitude and a nonsense order.
Can't believe the boss just stand up for his friend like that.
I've been working here for 2 weeks and I never messed up any orders.
Why can't he just try to stand at our place and look at things?
Feeling very disappointed, I took out all the restaurant money and hand it to the chef.
I told him I am not going to come anymore after today.
I even told the chef that the boss can have my salary, I am not going to take anything from him.
The girls and the chef got shocked and continued to comfort me.
They tried to change my mind and make me stay until at least the end of the month.
They said everyone will be in trouble if the captain is not around, moreover, I'm always the translator in between them + the local customers with the boss + chef.
But everytime the incident flashed back in my mind again and again,
I become firm with my decision and I apologized to them if I have offended anyone in anyway.
The chef told me he understand and will informed the boss about it.
He saw everything and knew what exactly had happened just now, he almost punch the guy in the face.
I guessed in the end he was pity and felt sad with what had happened, he fed everyone with kimchi and cola. LOL.
I'm familiar with korean drama, I knew exactly how koreans get mad and what did they looked like.
But when you are there experiencing it yourself, it's a whole different story.
I cannot even withstand the whole situation and atmosphere.
What more to say if you have the language barrier?
Only now do I really understand how hard will it be like surviving alone in a foreign country.
So many happenings in one night, sometimes things in drama does happen in real life.
Guessed I've just acted in my own drama huh?
Try to look from the bright side then.
At least, I don't have to work more than 12 hours per day and sleep only 5 hours per day anymore right?
At least, I don't have to face anymore perverts right?
No choice but to treat the free working as charity work.
It's Lent season afterall, I am just going to treat this as my penance.
Maybe I committed too much sins that this is just one of the way of doing penance.
I'm going to miss you all after this, especially the chef.
Everytime he fed me with delicious korean food, I felt as if he is my hal-abeoji (grandfather). LOL.
Wish you all good business in the coming days.
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