Liberties taken, dinner gratis
Saturday, November 29th, 2008Just got off working a 60 hour week doing heavy lifting. My boss is an absolute liberty taker. Talking me into working the second consecutive Saturday in a row telling me that ‘it’ll be a short day, only 10am until about 2’ making me think that I would actually get a worthwhile weekend this week. I ended up working 10 hours non-stop. That coupled with the impromptu 12 hour day I had on Friday means that I am an absolutely knackered (albeit rich) backpacker. That’s the only thing with working cash in hand (if there are any authorities reading this, this is hypothetical of course,) and that’s that the employee doesn’t have any say so or recompense if his employer takes all the liberties he can with your time. Thankfully the pay is well above minimum wage, and due to my excessive workload, I haven’t really been able to spend too much – there’s only so much you can do with your evenings if you get up at 5:55 am and don’t finish work until 8p.m. that night.
There was on nice bonus though, my boss took the boys for a meal in one of his restaurants. He is a very successful, and wealthy, restauranteur. For the first time since our anniversary back in July and back on Koh Tao I had a full 3 course meal. The most preposterously pretentious appetizer of fig salami with some kind of cheese. I forget the name now, but it was the sort of cheese that comes in a cheese board. Not the brie/camembert, not the blue, not the cheddar, not the soft/wendslydale, but the other-one. An Edamarien cheese. All very tasty, but if I was paying I would have assumed that the kitchen staff were trying to insult me. $10 for 2 bits of fig salami the size of my little fingernail adorned the plate, although the cheese portions were more generous.
Mains was a lambstravenganza. Rump cooked pretty well along with a spring roll filled with lamb cooked in a greek style. t tasted delicious, although the spring roll did look odd on the plate with the lamb, like it was a last minute edition.
Desert was tiramasu. One of my favourites.
All this was free, lucky really ‘cos my dinner alone probably came to around $150 with drinks, and there were 4 of us. The boss joined us later in the evening and we had some more drinks.
Next week is my last week of employment. Between you and me, internet, we’re trying to eek it out as long as possible really. We’ve definately got 3 solid days of work left, but we really wanna try and make it last until Friday.
Lauren went out last night with one of her friends from work. I met up with the briefly before I had to go for the meal. They were patronizing a trendy bar whose entrance was set down a grimy alley between two bins. I hear that this sort of thing marks the entrance to most of the genuinely cool bars in the city, so we’ll have to keep an eye open.
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