kate158

Joined June 2021

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College Student that got a little too carried away in their English Courses.

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A Ode to Italian Food
A Ode to Italian Food, what a way to start this off. Much like the picture above, I thought my job working at a high end Italian restaurant was quite picturesque. I was making well above my monthly need and even made a friend along the way. You see this job wasn't your typical waitressing job. The owners of the restaurant were beyond unique, one of them having schizophrenia and the other being the only and final say on how things were to be run. All chaos would break loose the moment the words "the owners are on their way!" would be muttered. From my manager frantically screaming at us to do our side work even though it would be in the middle of dinner rush to the kitchen staff trying to ensure their lemon butter sauce didn't break in the five minutes it would take for said owners to interrogate the restaurant. We were also required to have our white shirts professionally dry cleaned which was not compensated for by the company and if you committed the sin of showing up to work with out your dry cleaners tag, off you went home until you could provide the needed evidence of such a transaction. The kitchen manager was also notorious for cussing out servers because little did we know but, he was having a affair with a server that could have been his daughter and his wife had found out and so his life had become quite chaotic at home. Of course, all of this was known to the general manager who did nothing about the issue. I was also told directly that my manager did not have faith in me to do my job after I have had 3 years of experience in the fine dining field, I looked unattractive and many other wonderful things that left me feeling totally appreciated for my efforts. After being cursed out by the kitchen manager on a busy Saturday for him thinking a entree was already sent out when it hadn't been and no correction, I put in my two week notice. I had been working there a year and was frankly over it. My manager had convinced me to stay saying all the sweet nothings I had longed so long to hear one of them being there was going to be a complete staff meeting where the owners were going to come and address the problems in the restaurant themselves. Hearing that it seemed like after all this time my manager actually maybe somewhat slightly cared about me, I agreed to stay. Flash forward to the highly hyped up meeting and the owners are a no show. My manager had read a script of things about uniform standards and job expectations and nothing of the promised words were mentioned. Keep in mind, I am just a string of 5 people that have left the restaurant within the month due to the way it was run. My next scheduled day, I decided I was going to stick it out for a week. I was on a private event and the money that goes with those was something I did not want to miss. I came in to get the event decorated with the needed plate ware and ordered myself a Margarita pizza. As I was eating, I was told there wasn't enough plates or silverware to set the room and that I would have to carry the plates back from a building across the property in beyond hot weather. I ate my pizza and walked out. Haven't looked back sense. Here's to you, Margarita pizza.
By kate1583 years ago in Confessions
Eve of Glenoie
Part 1: Eve My name is Eve. Ever since the “New Dawn” regime began, everyone’s name now relates to a celestial or altruistic theme. We were told that it would remind us of where we came from and who we are. You see, my people and I lived on Earth for hundreds of years but before, we lived somewhere else. From what the history books have taught me, it was some place, some space outside of this one before the New Dawn happened. I am originally from Glenoie, a planet that hides just behind Titan, the moon of Saturn. We pride ourselves on having the cleanest ecosystem in the Universe. We are far more technologically advanced than those of Earth which has allowed our planet to be free of any pollution or waste. Our bodies have evolved to be their own recycle machines. Any bio waste or trash simply absorbs into our bodies and that acts as our energy source. Livestock and wildlife are free from fear of consumption because that is something simply not required by my people. There is no famine, war or natural disasters. We simply exist with each other and everything that surrounds us. Our political system is led by 3 leaders. Cheos is the leader of the professionals. He oversees and assigns jobs to those who are old enough to work and manages trade between the 3 sectors. Lias is the leader of the elderly. She oversees the retirement and medical treatment of the elderly. The elderly are the only ones of my people who may suffer from fatigue or illness. Lastly, there’s Effit. Effit is the leader of the hatchlings. These are the children of my population and Effit manages their care, oversees their growth and assigns them to their family. Together, Cheos, Lias and Effit forged the “New Dawn” program to purge Earth of their disasters. The New Dawn program was proposed as a means to take over the people of Earth. To seize control of their bodies and fill them with our own consciousness. That way, we could save this planet so different from our own from its ultimate demise. Originally, it was only the ones from the professional sector that were selected to go to Earth but then, we began to realize that the population of Earth was much larger than first imagined. Reports began to flood in about how the people of Earth must not have believed in self control because their population was overwhelming the planet. Scarcity of resources, water, food and even land to live were becoming inaccessible simply because these small minded people couldn’t be content with just having one offspring like the people of Glenoie were. So, the leaders decided to send the elderly to Earth. Even though their physical bodies weren’t up to the standards the Leaders agreed upon, it was only their consciousness that would be transferred. As more and more of the people of Earth began being filled with our mind and spirit, more issues started to arise. Crime so unimaginable to my people started booming. Lies began to spread that we were an alien species trying to consume the people of Earth and we were bloodthirsty. Rebel groups started forming of the disasters. Disasters was the term our leaders gave for the original inhabitants of Earth. The Disasters tried to harm my people even though we had their same physical form. After that, the leaders did what was necessary. They sent everyone including themselves and the Hatchlings to Earth and when that still wasn’t enough to conquer the last of the rebels, we had to do the unspeakable. We had to commit the first and only crime of our people, murder. It was painless as Lias had the knowledge of how to do it painlessly due to her work with the edlerly but we still mourned the act anyway. The leaders committed the acts in private as to not bring shame onto the rest of my people. The last loss of life was said to come from a female. She resembled the hatchlings and she wore a silver necklace with a pendant on it. The day was then turned into a global day of morning and the pendant was called a heart locket. Every year that goes on, we remember that final day as the Day of loss. A moment to reflect on what had to be done to ensure that the New Dawn Regime continued and from that day on, every female hatchling was granted with a silver heart locket. The locket would be opened on her 17th birthday and she would be given the chance to go back to the home planet of Glenoie or continue to stay on earth and become more and more human everyday.
By kate1583 years ago in Fiction