109 – 108. Gold One
The next day.
Everyone arrived at the banquet hall at the same time.
Since everyone arrived at the same time, Gold One’s internal buses were full, so some people had to walk.
“Oh, please.”
“I hope I get a good job.”
“I heard a lot of people can’t last two months and run away.”
Since it was a situation where they would be assigned to a job for the next two months, everyone was talking about it.
The manager who had guided us yesterday was standing in front, and he seemed to understand our feelings, so he didn’t bother to stop us from talking.
Perhaps he thought we were still children because we were college students.
‘He’s right.’
I’m only a year out of high school, so how can I be an adult?
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I was sitting in a chair, playing a game on my cell phone, when Seo Ye-rin, who was sitting next to me, joined in.
“Woo-jin, let’s play a friendly match.”
“No, you always win.”
The difference in our skills is so great that it’s a friendly match. I kept refusing, but Seo Ye-rin wouldn’t give up and kept pestering me, so I finally agreed to play a few rounds.
“Ahem.”
At that moment, Yoo Ah-rin, who was sitting on my left, cleared her throat and glared at me. I turned my head, thinking she was giving me some kind of signal, and she bit her lip tightly.
“Please go work somewhere else with me.”
She was waving her hands as if to tell me to go away.
I thought about saying something, but she had been in a strange mood since yesterday, so I decided to just leave it.
I didn’t want to poke her when she was sensitive and get hit.
“You’ve been in a bad mood since yesterday.”
Seo Ye-rin seemed to have the same thought as me, so she leaned towards me and whispered softly.
“I can see that.”
“Really?”
Then she leaned back slightly and started playing the game again. I flicked my shoulder to signal her to go away, but Seo Ye-rin held out her cell phone and continued playing the game.
“Don’t raise that.”
“No, it’s pretty. I only raise pretty ones.”
“If you raise a good one first, it will look pretty on its own.”
“But you’ve raised them all. You’re a cheater.”
Didn’t you spend five million won on it?
That was a few months ago, so I don’t know what it’s like now.
“……They’re all pretty.”
In the end, she raised them all and said something to me. I was speechless, and as I was talking about it, I suddenly saw a group of employees in suits rushing in from the entrance.
“Okay, everyone. Please come out when your name is called.”
The manager in charge immediately grabbed the microphone and started calling out names.
“Lee In-joo, Baek Da-woon, Cheong Seol-ah.”
The people who were called out were handed over to the first employee who came in and left.
It felt like I was at a job fair, and I was a little nervous.
Since there were so many people, names were called out continuously, and the numbers called out varied.
Sometimes only one person was called, and other times as many as fifteen people were taken away at once.
“This must be a tough place to work if there are so many people.”
Seo Ye-rin and Yoo Ah-rin, who were on either side of me, thought about it for a moment and nodded in agreement.
The fact that they were taking so many people meant that they needed a lot of workers.
“Seo Ye-rin, Jang Jin-ha, Kim Yi-seo.”
I flinched.
I raised my head without realizing it. It was because Seo Ye-rin had been called, but also because of the name Kim Yi-seo.
“Oh, my.”
Yoo Ah-rin clicked her tongue at me for reacting to ‘Yi-seo’.
“Eek, I’m going.”
Seo Ye-rin left, moaning that it was a shame that we had been torn apart.
“Wow, she’s crazy.”
“Isn’t she a celebrity?”
“I want to work with her.”
There were cheers and envious glances at Seo Ye-rin, who followed naturally, as well as jealousy and envy.Recently, I had forgotten, but Seoyerin’s appearance was outstanding.
“Oh, Yerim must be tired.”
Yooarin muttered, propping her chin on her hand, as if she was used to such reactions from Seoyerin.
“Her face is just round.”
I added a word.
“Wait a minute!”
At that moment, an employee who had been waiting to receive the next part-timers stepped forward.
“Can we take this student?”
The man asked, pointing at Seoyerin. The golden name tag on his chest read “Manager Lee Chansong.”
“Yes? Manager, but…”
The employee who had been taking Seoyerin away made a troubled expression. He signaled to the agent in charge to do something about it.
However, the agent pretended not to see the manager’s actions and called the next people.
“Yooarin, Iseul, Hanbom…”
Four people were called here, and surprisingly, the girls were all familiar faces.
“It’s overlapping.”
Iseul was in the English Drama Department, and Hanbom was in the Design Department, and they were Yooarin and Seoyerin’s high school classmates.
So, all of Seoyerin’s high school friends were assigned to the same place except for Seoyerin.
“Take care.”
As I waved goodbye, Yooarin glanced at me and walked away without saying a word.
It seemed like she was really upset, not only because she didn’t drink the Choco Mon yesterday.
“We can just switch one of our kids. Right?”
Manager Lee Chansong was still continuing his stubbornness. It seemed that he wanted to take Seoyerin to his work place.
“Uh, um…”
He looked at the three girls who had come to his department and wondered who to send.
Taking advantage of the gap, the employee who had been taking Seoyerin quickly ran away.
Manager Lee Chansong, who was about to say something, was eventually forced to run away with the kids as if he was being pushed by the gazes of numerous college students.
‘Yooarin will have a hard time.’
Looking at the way he was acting because of Seoyerin’s appearance, it seemed that he was not the right size for the person who would be her boss and work with her.
I waited for my turn, comforting Yooarin for her hard work.
“Jegal Jaemin, Kim Woojin, Han Minchan, Choi Minji…”
Finally, my name was called.
As I stepped forward, my roommate, Jegal Jaemin, naturally approached me.
“I’m glad I’m working with someone I know.”
“Yeah.”
He talks a lot and seems a little frivolous, but he’s easy to get along with.
He likes to dress up, so he tended to use the bathroom for a long time this morning.
“Let’s go.”
The place we were assigned to work was a Korean restaurant called ‘Country Table’.
It was located outside the hotel building and had the interior of a Hanok, with a small pond in the center.
It was a place that literally exuded a Korean atmosphere.
‘The price is high.’
I wondered if it was right to call it a country table when the price of kimchi stew was at the level of steak.
But seeing that so many employees were assigned here, it must mean that there were a lot of customers.
Whatever.
Now I’m finally starting to feel like I’m really at Gold One.
* * *
Time passed and passed.
Gold One, Day 3.
Yooarin, who woke up in the morning, woke up from sleep as usual and got up slowly. Her roommate was Seoyerin, but she was already at work at the bakery ‘Daehandang’.
“Haam.”
After washing her face briefly, she dried her hair and put on makeup. It was quite urgent on the first day, but now she was a little more relaxed because she was used to it.
She wore a black skirt and white shirt as a uniform, and a black blazer over it.
It was similar to the clothes she wore at the school festival last time, but she liked this uniform much better because it was much more stylish.
It was not dull, and the subtle pattern engraved in the same color gave it a much more luxurious feel.On the first day, the girls had a fashion show with what they were wearing.
It was still dark outside.
Before going out, they put on their long padding and went out with Yeon-young, Se-ah, and Han-bom.
The three of them worked in room service.
It was a place where you could find it in any hotel and also a place where you could learn various simple menus.
‘Huh.’
It’s been three days since Gold One.
Among the notorious rumors heard here and there, Yoo Ah-rin realized that room service was a great position, so she couldn’t help but feel light on her feet on her way to work.
She took the elevator filled with cold air and went down to the first floor.
The sight of people going to work at this hour was now familiar, and it was natural to stand in line for the bus.
“Oh, it’s cold.”
“That’s why.”
Perhaps because it was morning, even the usually noisy friends continued their conversation somewhat tiredly.
Listening to her friends’ conversation, Yoo Ah-rin put her hands in her padding pocket and thought blankly.
It’s already been three days.
I haven’t seen Kim Woo-jin for three days.
I don’t know if I should be happy or sad.
It seems like we have different commuting hours and work in different places, so we don’t have to meet at all.
‘I feel relieved.’
Feeling a sense of satisfaction that she didn’t understand, she got on the bus with a smile on her face.
After about 10 minutes, she arrived right in front of the hotel, then swiped her employee card and went inside to go to work.
She headed to the basement, thinking that she would live this kind of life when she graduated from college and became a working adult.
Room service was simple.
Receive orders from the room and deliver the food to the kitchen next door.
Then the kitchen cooks the food, sets it up, and takes it away.
It was a very easy job.
“That’s why! I’m telling you to bring it?!”
“Oh, where should I bring it!”
“Ugh, you’re fighting again in the morning.”
Two people shouting loudly in the office. Room service manager Lee Chan-song and part-time manager Han Jeong-jik.
In fact, it could be said that it was a kind of rebellion for the manager to raise his voice like that to the manager.
It was everyday life in room service.
“I guess we still haven’t found anyone.”
“Where can I find it? There’s no one to replace.”
“We’re not some kind of figure, I’d rather go somewhere else.”
“……But it’s not as good as here.”
Se-ah and Han-bom whispered.
Yoo Ah-rin, who was listening silently, suddenly thought of Kim Woo-jin, who had been called a living figure by Seo Ye-rin.
‘Oh, man.’
Yoo Ah-rin started preparing for work, grumbling to stop thinking about Kim Woo-jin.
The manager and the manager were still fighting.
There is only one reason why the two are fighting now.
Because there is a shortage of people to work in room service.
There are four Gold One employees, and four were hired as part-timers this time, so the number seems sufficient.
The important thing was that there weren’t many boy employees.
Due to the nature of room service, food is delivered to the guest’s room.
However, Gold One has a casino, so there are quite a few dangerous guests who stay for a long time.
Because of that, if a girl employee takes room service, there are often accidents where they are dragged inside, so only boy employees go up to the room.
“Is it my fault that he ran away? Huh? Are you saying it’s my fault that the bastard ran away!”
And just yesterday.
The only boy employee who came as a part-timer ran away saying it was hard.
Originally, more boy part-timers should have been selected instead of girl part-timers, but this was a disaster that happened because Manager Lee Chan-song gave a lot of tea to the women.
“Isn’t that right? The hotel rooms are full because it’s the peak season, so how can I and the kids do all this!”
Right now, there are more than 200 hotel rooms in Building A alone. However, since room service is also used for B, it means that three people have to carry food to nearly 400 rooms.”You’re adding two more kids! You’ll only accept boys then, right?”
“We still have a week left! What are we going to do in the meantime?! The manager only takes customer calls here, but the three of us have to go around the rooms!”
‘This is a mess.’
Even if the girl employees set everything up for them to take, it would be quite difficult to move it.
“Ah, damn it!”
In the end, Manager Lee Chan-song got angry and went outside with his cigarettes.
Orders had just started coming in.
“Haah.”
In the end, the remaining manager sighed and started working as orders continued to come in.
About 30 minutes later.
“Hey! I brought him!”
To everyone’s surprise, Manager Lee Chan-song brought in a boy part-timer.
“I brought the ace who did the best at the rural dining table!”
The man looked around, wondering why he was here.
The moment Kim Woo-jin scratched the back of his head and set up the food on the cart, his eyes met Yoo Ah-rin’s.
“What? You work here?”
‘Oh, really.’
Yoo Ah-rin’s heart, which had been quietly going on, began to flutter strangely again.