After receiving an email to find out that my assignment was invalid, I turned blue. I was in my composition-1 class when I received this email and the instructor asked me if something was wrong. I had one more chance (thanks to Dr. Sitton) to spend 24 fresh hours without the media and prepare a report on it. As I work on the weekends at the university dining hall, media-free 24 hours was not going to be a big deal because I am not supposed to use the phone during work anyways. So my media free 24 hours began on 21st April at 2 pm. I left my cell phone at my apartment and walked to the dining hall. There were not many people sitting at the dining hall. I rushed to the manager’s office to collect my check but there wasn’t any. I was disappointed. I was told by my supervisor to email the manager immediately so that I might get it by the next day. But as it was a media less day, I had to wait 24 hours to email her. I was supposed to work at the grill. I love working there. It is the busiest place in the dining hall and I like to stay busy while I am working. Though I don’t eat meat, I make …show more content…
As I use my phone for alarm and if I had switched on my phone, it would have flooded with news notifications, WhatsApp messages and phone calls. So I did not set an alarm and got up late. So I reached the dining hall late but as the hall opens at 10.20 am, it was fine. The full day shift is divided into two parts, 9.30 am to 3 pm and 4 pm to 8. For the first part of the shift, I worked on the floor. My job was to make sure that all the tables are clean, all the table have enough tissues, the juices machines are filled with juices, dessert area is full of cakes, cookies and ice-cream. This is the most difficult job in the dining hall and all my coworkers and I hate it. We have to keep on roaming for 5 hours straight even if there is nobody in the dining hall because we aren’t getting paid to sit. We are supposed to stand and be