unit 4 for AA

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praca na zmiany

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nadgodziny

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zarobki

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samozatrudniony

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podwyżka

Third time lucky

I’ve got a summer job now but for a while I thought I had lost my chance. It all started when I decided to look for work in the local shopping centre. I took my short but professional looking CV to all the shops and cafés. Workers in some of the shops took one and promised to give it to the manager but I wasn’t sure that they would. Others told me they weren’t hiring anyone. It was a time when there were lots of adverts for employees but, even though I was confident of finding something eventually, it was still an effort to keep going.

Fortunately I did, and a pleasant cashier in a café told me that the manager would be there the following Thursday. I felt sure she would pass the CV on and at least now I had a definite time to return. Finally, I went into a bakery. The manager was there, alone, and, without even looking at my CV, offered me a job starting the next day.

The shopping centre opened at nine but the day in the bakery lasted from 7am until 9pm, as we had to take the delivery of bread and cakes and put them on the shelves. The long working hours weren’t a problem as I needed the money. However, I soon found out why they had so much trouble keeping staff. The work was so dull. I stood, waiting for customers, gave them a loaf of bread or some cake and waited impatiently for the next person. By late afternoon, the shelves were almost empty and the manager told me she and the other employee were going home. She left instructions that, after closing time I had to clean all the shelves, surfaces and the floor before I went home. The other girl had been quiet but sympathetic. Now I had no-one even to exchange smiles with.

Thursday came and during a break I went to the café I had visited the week before for an interview. I was offered a job but had to do some training on how to use the coffee machine first. Before the bakery manager left that afternoon, I told her I was going to quit at the end of the day. She didn’t seem at all surprised to lose another employee. After my training at the café I was ready to start my new job properly with a 6am start to help get the café ready to open at nine. Unfortunately, when my alarm went off, I switched it off without getting up and the next thing I knew, it was almost seven. I stayed in bed for a while wondering if it was worth going in but I thought it would be rude not to and there was still a slight possibility that they would let me off with a warning. Unfortunately, before I could say anything or show him how well I remembered my training, I was sacked.

I thought about going back to the bakery but would you re-employ someone who had left you after four days? In the end, I got a job in a burger bar and I’ve been really lucky. I get decent pay, free food and I start at 3pm every day. Even I can’t oversleep for this job!

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