Monday 8 September 2008

My fears and hopes for the next year

I hope I will find a better job than I had last year. I was working three months in Starbucks Coffee. But it became to be very stressful for me. Every day I must smile and talk to people in the american way. It seemed to me like I must do like we all are in America. I think it sometimes should be annoying for customers. I remember when an American guy came to Starbucks and we asked him for his name, when he asked why, my Starbucks partner told him that he will better know which drink is his. The ameican boy told him that we are trying to be much American and he went away and he did a fuck off. I was wondering how much we are pushingness. In this case it wasn’t our problem, but there are many cases similar to this one. And I became to feel it also. Every time I want to work my manager was smiling at me and asking me like Americans do “How are you today?” and I know that she wouldn’t ask me anyway if she didn’t have to be kind to me. And I want to change the way of acting people like this. My big hope is that manager’s in Starbucks coffee will find out that it is not the better way how to talk to people and maybe they will think about it after they will not have anyone who will be working with them. It is also my biggest fear because I loved the job but I can’t work with people which are really insincere. The better side of working in Starbucks Coffee was that I was speaking English and I hope it will help me to speak better. Also my fear is that I will not work in the really nice coffee house and I will not be able to smell the wonderful essence of coffee. I also hope that if I will come back after three years maybe I meet there people whom I can believe that they are saying things which are really true.

1 comment:

Gafna said...

Dear Zdeňka,
It is a very interesting thought and I have to say I agree with most of what you said. The American culture is very “positive oriented,” especially in customer service. Sometimes it looks very insincere and it makes people feel worse.

Your essay has a fairly good structure, only next time divide it into paragraphs.

Be careful with your grammar mistakes – relative clauses (which/what, capital letters and word order.)

Lot´s of luck in your job this year!