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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast!
Hello, hello!
Hey guys!
Alright.
Alrighty.
So...
How do you choose your DMs?
No...
No method?
No method.
Just pure randomness?
Alright.
So...
But basically from the oldest one.
Okay, got it.
Like, older.
First...
First come first...
What was it?
First...
First come first serve?
Like, kind of...
Yeah.
Kind of method?
Kind of.
Yeah.
But, you know, I kind of...
Now I don't pick all the, you know, all the messages now.
Okay.
I just kind of skip some messages.
Okay.
So that, you know, we're never able to reach the latest one.
Right, right, right.
If we do this.
Makes sense.
Yeah, makes sense.
So...
Thank you.
Right.
What was that?
2022...
November 23rd.
November 23rd.
15 o'clock.
Okay.
Right in the middle of work.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Thank you.
Thank you.
100% on her side.
On her side?
Yeah, 100% for me.
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I had like a similar experience when I was working at Starbucks.
Oh.
I was the...
I had to do some gym work, right?
The computer room, you can't see what's going on at the bar.
And in Starbucks, there's a system where there's a button.
There's actually a button on the cashier.
Oh.
So when you click that button, there's an alarm goes on in the staff room.
Yeah.
Beep.
That means when that noise comes up, that means there's something going on.
Oh.
Someone needs help in that kitchen.
Okay.
And then whatever we're doing, when that beep goes on, we stop, we go out, we help whoever needs help.
Okay.
So that system is there.
So we really didn't need that knocking communication.
Sure.
But whoever's like working on gym sagyo are not obligated, I think, to completely be on the lookout for what's happening at all times.
I feel like people who are in that kitchen has the obligation to let the people in the office know that help is needed.
Yeah.
So I don't think it's your fault.
I think that whoever knocked really hard did not have the capabilities of being nice to whoever was working at the desk.
Yep.
And was an act of arrogance.
Yeah, I believe.
I think so.
Yeah.
I agree with that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Have you ever had an experience that you were like too, you know, rushed and had no like capability of being kind to anybody?
Um, I am a person who cares a lot about not feeling stressed during workplaces.
Yeah.
So even if the Starbucks temple was so super busy, the one thing I would never do is be angry or like be a little bit like aggressive towards like a new,
like a new staff or like whoever's working that I would 100% that's where that you never done as kind guy.
You're a gentle guy.
Yeah.
True.
But there, I mean, I do have, I do remember times where I, I feel.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I said, and maybe led to like, Oh, I forgot about this.
I forgot about this.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Which led to confusing the people around me.
Okay.
Like, okay, what's going on?
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What's going on with this?
Like what's going on?
Are you, are you working on this or am I supposed to work on this?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That has happened before.
Okay.
But rushing into them and just slapping your slapping that slapping the emotions is never something that I do.
Okay.
That's never going to happen.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's very hot guy.
Thank you.
I'm sure you had a lot of busy experiences during your Yoshinoya ages.
Yeah.
Matsuya.
Matsuya ages, you know, a lot of busy workplaces, you know, a lot of benches necessary.
Got customers coming in.
Yeah.
Kitchen's all busy.
Yeah.
You know, right.
Managers in the staff room.
Yeah.
Get that plan going on.
How was that?
How was that like?
I don't remember.
Oh, you don't remember.
I mean, so first of all, I just went there for like a few times, quite a few times.
Like how many?
Like three or four.
No.
So I had no experience of like being in rush.
Of course, like the store was like so busy.
Yeah.
But I was always like out of like, you know, send.
You're looking, right?
You're learning.
Yeah.
I wasn't like, you know, I was just.
You're on the job.
You're in the kitchen.
Yeah.
So there were four people, enough people in the store.
To run the kitchen.
Yeah.
So I was just like, see them.
Yeah.
All good?
All good.
All good.
Oh, the store is getting busier and busier right now.
Good?
Good.
Good.
Yeah.
Why did you quit in the first place?
Well, because I, you know, I wasn't able to get in the shift.
I see.
That much.
You were busy with the circle, the dagaku and everything.
I see.
And I was kind of, it was, I wanted to try, you know, I want to experience those things,
right?
It was my first arubaito.
And I wanted to experience the real like that.
Yeah.
The real cliche, yeah.
Arubaito.
Yeah.
Which is quite like, I see.
Busy and tough, but you get not many paid.
Yeah.
Those, you know.
Right.
And yeah, I did it.
Sometimes.
And I kind of, okay.
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You understood the whole thing.
Yeah.
Kind of.
Yeah.
Okay.
I did it.
The dynamics of everything.
You understood it.
Yeah.
And I think, you know, huge motivation to, you know, arubaito.
Yeah.
Rather like it was, you know, toward like circle.
Like my zemi.
So, you know.
Yeah.
Maybe I don't need this.
This is a fair deal.
Yeah.
This is fair.
Completely fair.
Yeah.
So the, you know, stock luck, all the store was good.
They were nice guys.
Yeah.
All people great.
But the stock was quite fun.
Look for the pause there.
Because I haven't actually worked.
I see.
I see.
Yeah.
Were the people there around your age like all the other sons?
Were they higher?
Like more frita people or?
There were some like older people who were like the managers or like tencho san.
Well, a bit older than me, like 30, 40.
But they were like college students or like a senmon gakkose.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Okay.
So.
I see.
Not bad as an arubaito.
What do you think about, were you able to get along with the arubaito people?
Because that's my struggle.
Like I always struggle with like the dynamics of like the workplace of arubaitos, right?
There's people who are younger, who are more experienced than you, who there are people who's much more aged, but has less experience.
And there's all that difficult dynamic they have to navigate through.
And that has always felt like it's a difficult part about arubaitos.
Did you feel anything?
Not at all. From my, you know, all my experiences.
But yeah, I do.
They're like, I thought he was like 18 or 19, which means younger than me.
But he has been working in that store for like many years.
And then he was kind of leader now.
I see.
Yeah.
And he was kind of proud of, you know, being, you know, working as a leader, which sometimes led him to be a bit like an arubagant.
And even, you know, the times there were like elder, like 40-year-old arubaito people, like 30-year-old arubaito people, and then 18-year-old arubaito leader.
And then he sometimes, you know, being like, you know, kind of, "konna koto mo wakannai no ka yo?"
I see.
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Mood sometimes.
And then that kind of difficult, I found, you know, but he's like the eldest guy in this store.
Right.
But, you know, still younger than him, I'm being.
So it's a bit, yeah, I understand that situation.
Yeah, that's difficult.
Especially you were kind of a boss, right? Tencho, right?
Yeah, fukutencho.
Fukutencho in the store.
And you have to manage all the people who are like elder than you.
Yeah.
Yeah, I can imagine that would be difficult.
Like, yeah.
A lot of younger people who are more experienced than I am, right?
Yeah.
Oh, true.
That was difficult, too.
Yeah, but you are fukutencho.
Right.
Yeah.
Right.
So, difficult dynamic to navigate through.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
True.
But that's actually one of the interesting things.
Yeah.
When you do arubaito.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
It's like a, it's the real shakai is like this, right?
Yeah, you're right.
It's not like, yeah.
It's more skill based, I guess, right?
Yeah.
We sometimes teach how to, you know, put videos on YouTube to elder people, for example.
Right.
So, yeah, that's how shakai is.
Yeah.
Right, right.
Yeah.
You can take that as a very interesting, that's a very interesting slide, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
You can look at it like that.
Yeah.
It was, it was.
It's probably one of the reasons why I quit that environment.
The whole.
Yeah.
You know, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Right.
True.
So, thanks for listening guys.
Thank you.
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