{"id":22,"date":"2007-12-10T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T07:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/severebassarchive.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/10\/ridiculous-catering-story-1"},"modified":"2007-12-10T07:29:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-10T07:29:00","slug":"ridiculous-catering-story-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/severebass.com\/archive\/2007\/12\/ridiculous-catering-story-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ridiculous Catering Story #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With so much buildup, ahm sure everyone needs an update on that mega-corpo-party ah werked at (n technically will be gittin paid fer).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_mOLnDzl_uxQ\/R1zrQqx4ecI\/AAAAAAAAAB4\/BeMM8gwtH30\/s1600-h\/xmaspartya.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_mOLnDzl_uxQ\/R1zrQqx4ecI\/AAAAAAAAAB4\/BeMM8gwtH30\/s400\/xmaspartya.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is tha playing field of AT&amp;T park (apparently tha SF baseball team is tha Giants, which ah nevah wouldve guessed in a million years).  While tha quality is bad (its from my <a href=\"http:\/\/reviews.cnet.com\/cell-phones\/lg-muziq-lx570-sprint\/4505-6454_7-32441322.html\">camera phone,<\/a> you should be able ta make out 1)a dance floor (one of at least 2, n prolly 3 er 4) on tha left, followed by 2)a sledding hill and then, 3)an ice skating rink.  8,500 people were expected at this party, apparently biotechnology is a pretty profitable field these days.  2 of 3 floors of suites and otha high-rise ballpark real estate were rented out, stuffed w. food, bars, bands (ah was stationed near one of tha main entrances, stocking two buffet tables w. food n desert, just next to tha 80s cover band that played 3 sets, each time appearing in a different clothes), airbrush tattoos, n who knows what else.  Call time was at 5 pm, aftah wich we were served pasta (ah stayed clear of tha meatballs, but am sure ah ingested some animal protein one way er anutha), n then stood around outside in tha cold, a mess of penguin lookin waitstaff of all types (college student through senior citizen).  Then a 45 minute procession of callin off our names and assignin us to stations took place (when all they really needed to do was pick a group of us), n it was ON!<\/p>\n<p>It might just be tha years ahve spent in hospitality, but ah&#8217;ve nevah unnerstood who people ken be so fricken oblivious to thar surroundins in crowded restaurants n partys.  Despite our big assed white chefs coats, we were pretty much invisible to tha patrons.  Walkin from one section to anutha took 30 minutes sometimes cuz tha assorted bio-techno people were too busy tellin themselves how great thar party was ta GIT THA FAWK OUTTA OUR WAY!<\/p>\n<p>ahll also mention that a bunch of those folks looked real young ta have fancy jobs, but part of that might just be my own projections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With so much buildup, ahm sure everyone needs an update on that mega-corpo-party ah werked at (n technically will be gittin paid fer). This is tha playing field of AT&amp;T park (apparently tha SF baseball team is tha Giants, which &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/severebass.com\/archive\/2007\/12\/ridiculous-catering-story-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,65,104,305],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-assed-parties","category-biotechnology","category-catering","category-jerks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/severebass.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/severebass.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/severebass.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/severebass.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/severebass.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/severebass.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/severebass.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/severebass.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/severebass.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}