Chapter 7 Whose Scheme
When we reached the 25th floor, Ji Zhen was already making rounds pushing a supply cart, and another mobile waiter was stamping sand on the trash cans and cleaning up cigarette butts and debris.
Junlan quickly stepped forward to greet him, "Hello, I'm the new Lin Junlan. You must be Sister Ji Zhen, right? Supervisor Li Yu arranged for me to study with you today. Please give me your guidance!"
Ji Zhen: "Ah? I'm almost too busy today to teach you. A higher-ranking official can crush anyone. We're just workers after all. I'll just do whatever she tells me to do. You'll just have to follow my lead and don't cause any trouble for me!"
Jun Lan nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, I will try my best not to cause you any trouble."
Ji Zhen called the waiter who was still cleaning in the lobby over.
"Her name is Lihua. She came here half a year earlier than you and has learned a lot. If you have any questions, you can ask her."
Junlan smiled at Lihua to show her friendliness, and Lihua also smiled shyly.
Ji Zhen: "Lihua, go take care of the sanitation on these floors first."
Then he turned to Junlan and said, "I'll first teach you how to check the room, clean the toilet, and then tidy up the room."
She looked at the report and said, "The front desk said room 2501 was just returned, so we'll check that room first. Go to the workshop and get the linen cart and vacuum cleaner."
Junlan was worried when she saw the linen cart that was taller than her in the workshop. It was so heavy that she tried to push it out of the workshop several times but failed.
At this time, Lihua walked in.
"Why can't I push it? Don't look at its weight. As long as I have the skills, I can push it no matter how heavy it is." After saying that, she pushed the cart like a bicycle and pushed it to the place she wanted very easily.
"To push a small cart like this, you can't use brute force. You have to use ingenuity and leverage. You have to learn to choose the right direction and angle."
With her hands-on instruction, Junlan was finally able to drive the linen cart with ease.
Because of this emergency help, Junlan immediately looked at Lihua with a different eye and admired her very much.
"Wow, you're amazing."
"That's nothing. It's just practice. You college students are the ones who have studied!"
"If you hadn't come to teach me in time, I really wouldn't know how to push this linen cart. Did Sister Ji Zhen ask you to help me?"
Lihua sneered, "You wish! How could someone as selfish and calculating as her sincerely help you?"
When Junlan heard this resentful answer, she felt that the atmosphere was very tense, so she quickly changed the subject: "Why don't you go with us to check the room and clean it?"
Lihua sighed: "Do you know what kind of person Ji Zhen is? If some unlucky waitress had bad luck, she would be assigned to do the job."
Junlan is not the kind of person who likes to gossip, but as she has just arrived, she still wants to know more about the kind of people around her colleagues.
"Can you tell me how to say this?"
"Why shouldn't you tell me? Everyone in the hotel knows her character. Didn't you just ask me why I didn't clean with you? It's because she's afraid of having to share my commission, so she's using me to do the common work. She's also asking us to restock supplies, send linens to the wash, and throw all the heavy work on us, the mobile ones, without even letting us into the rooms. She even wants to keep the two dollars of commission that was supposed to be ours. It's really too much."
Junlan didn't know the inside story and didn't know how to respond. She could only make up a few random words to prevaricate: "Maybe she is short of money."
"Who in our line of work is rich if they need money? She gets an eight yuan commission, but she wants to pocket the two yuan we deserve. She likes newcomers like you the most because you can help her clean but you won't give her a share of the commission!"
Junlan felt bad after hearing this, and Lihua noticed that the atmosphere was a bit awkward.
"Alright, since we're both new here, I'm just reminding you to be careful with Ji Zhen. I don't mean anything else. Not only is she greedy for commissions, but she sometimes even frames others. You'll find out later. Be careful not to get sold out by her and end up counting her money!"
Jun Lan nodded seriously. "Thank you for your reminder. I'll keep an eye on it. I'm going to meet up with Ji Zhen at 2501."
Junlan finally pulled the cart to the door of 2501. Ji Zhen asked, "Why did you take so long? Were you and Lihua saying something bad about me?"
"No, it's just that I'm not used to pushing this kind of cart, so I was a little delayed."
"Even if they say bad things about me, I'm not afraid. After all, I get the most money every month among them. The bosses don't dare say anything to me. What can they do to me? I've worked here for more than ten years. I trained all of them. Now that they can stand on their own, they want to teach me a lesson. It's really like teaching the apprentice to starve the master."
After hearing this, Junlan didn't even dare to fart. After scaring Junlan, Ji Zhen went back to work contentedly.
She knocked on the door. "Hello, waiter. Hello, waiter."
Seeing no one agreed, she used the room card to open the door, then scanned the surroundings with eagle-like eyes, and then launched into a barrage of words: "Open all the cup lids, see if there is any damage, see if the toilet lid is broken, and see if the cups and coffee spoons have been taken away by the guests..."
After checking for about fifteen minutes, she said into the intercom, "Room 2501 OK!"
Looking at Junlan, who was still confused, she said angrily, "Why are you still standing there cleaning the toilet? Just clean the toilet the way you should at home. Do you need me to teach you?"
Upon hearing this, Junlan had no choice but to bite the bullet and pick up her toolbox to clean the toilet, wipe the bathtub, wash basin and other housekeeping tasks. She had to do everything herself, and sometimes she even had to change her bed and vacuum.
Most of the time, Ji Zhen was playing with her phone, and sometimes she would just sit in her room and watch TV. When Jun Lan was busy, she would add, "You have to speed up, otherwise you won't be able to get off work until nine o'clock tonight."
They were busy like this until a voice came over the intercom: "Ji Zhen, Ji Zhen, it's your turn to eat."
Without saying a word, Ji Zhen dragged Jun Lan to the dining hall. Sitting at the table, Jun Lan's hands were so sore that she couldn't even pick up her chopsticks.
At this time, I ran into the security guard who had just come to eat. He smiled and said, "Why, I told you you can't do it! Why are you so stubborn? Treat me to wonton noodles tomorrow, then sign your resignation letter and leave! Don't suffer here anymore!"
Ji Zhen glared at him and said, "Get out of here, you little bastard! Go eat! I've just brought someone in, are you trying to run him off?"
The security guard said, "Sister Ji Zhen, please don't be angry. I was just joking with her." After saying that, he quickly left with his lunch box.
Ji Zhen turned to Jun Lan and said, "It's inevitable that it's a bit hard when you first get here because you haven't adapted yet. Experienced people like us can earn at least 7,000 or 8,000 yuan in the off-season. Unlike them, who can only make a little over 4,000 yuan at most. So don't listen to him. For the sake of the money, there's hope no matter how hard or tiring it is."
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