Blue Light Roundup!

[primrosella]

Okay, guys, so as noted here and here, Rosella has been left in charge of the Blue Light now, which means...it would really help if I actually knew who was working for the Blue Light at the moment, whoops. So!


If Your Character CURRENTLY Works For The Blue Light:

▶ Please drop me a line here and let me know who they are and what they do!
▶ Feel free also to include any hilarious quirks of everyday business that might come up off-screen, like problem customers or a character's notorious tendency to break all the dishes or their habit of coming in twenty minutes late to their shift every Thursday because they secretly lead a double life as Batman, etc.

However, I've also been tipped off that the Blue Light might be somewhat understaffed or running on its bare minimum of employees at the moment, which means: JOB OPPORTUNITIES! So!


If Your Character WOULD LIKE TO Work For The Blue Light:

▶ Drop me a line here and tell me what they'd like to do!
▶ I'm hoping to get another post up in a few days with Rosella trying to get Blue Light stuff arranged, so we can ICly thread out an interview/meeting there, or just handwave something!
▶ Relevant positions to hire for include: bartenders, cooks, waitstaff, entertainers...I dunno, if you've got an idea not on that list, pitch it to me and we'll try to work something out!
▶ PLOT WITH ME. ♥

...Also all employees are probably getting a raise because Claire once told Rosella that Caspian didn't pay her enough and lulz, what is Rosella and understanding how economics work. YOU MEAN YOU CAN'T JUST GO GET MORE GOLD WHEN YOU RUN OUT?? Shenanigans. Weep bitterly at what you have wrought, Edmund.

For people unfamiliar with the Blue Light, have the description courtesy of the old Poly Places community:

An informal neighborhood bar and jazz club; it's a little bit of a hole in the wall but there's always good music, good drinks, and dancing. Food they serve a little, but it's best to eat before getting here. Owned by a Fable [princess now], there's always a seat for anyone with a healthy appreciation of the blues, and a nice spot for a night on the town, a drink, a place to soak your blues away or a second or a third date, because the musician playing will always consider a request for young love. But mostly it's just a place to hang out with your friends and have a good time.

And I...think that's everything? Thanks in advance, everybody!

Comments

[forhishonor]

--Entertainers, you say?

:|a

Is there a piano in the club?

[primrosella]

I'm pretty sure there is! It'd only make sense to have one, if for nothing else than the sake of accompanying other performers.

...and if not we will GET ONE because Rosella plays the piano too and COME ON NOW.

[rehashing]

Elena works part-time as a waitress! She tries not to be late but she does have a day job. She's new to waitressing. But, she's a people person when she wants to be and she's polite.

[primrosella]

Fabulous! And I've got you over on Rosella's IC post at the moment, so they've met that way, too, which is doubly awesome.

And fear not, Rosella is very forgiving. Lateness will be completely fine unless it's like...y'know, EVERY DAY, in which case she would have to very politely try to be stern and generally fail at it.

[totallyinaband]

Stephen here works in the kitchen, as well as bartending now and again during the daytime shifts. He does all the usual pub grub, but he's been slowly working in more vegetarian and gourmet options. He also introduced a tapas night.

[primrosella]

EXCELLENT. Between him and Penny, perhaps someday Rosella will understand vegetarianism and how delicious it can be.

[wouldnotkindly]

uh! I haven't really done anything with it yet as far as posts or plotting goes, but Jack here got a job as a(n at least) part-time bartender. He's a pretty quiet guy and tends to keep to himself, so I don't think it'd be unusual for him to have gone fairly unnoticed, haha...

[primrosella]

WELP it is great to have him on board!

Rosella will probably want to meet him at least once, just by virtue of the fact that she'll want to try to know everyone who's working for her (and she's usually pretty good with quiet and shy-like people, since she's so friendly herself), so if you want to handwave a meeting we can do that, or if you'd like to work something out threadwise, we can definitely do that, too!

[signatures]

Just in case you need to know for any future CR or notes or w/e, Eames is a huge regular at the Blue Light!

[primrosella]

That is valuable to know! It's probably safe to assume that he and Rosella will have at least a passing familiarity with each other (assuming they didn't already; my memory is failing me today, I'm sorry), since she'll be around with reasonable frequency now. o/

TIP KINDLY, MR. EAMES.

[hexuality]

YES INDEED HE IS

[misterblackbird]

Cain'll come and hang out and, if you need him to, play the piano. Although...he really knows classical pieces. He could maybe stretch and get some ragtime going but...yeah.

But, still! He'll come visit.

[primrosella]

OMG A COMPETITOR APPEARS

Cain will probably be receiving a lot of frantic questions from Rosella in the style of OMG HOW DO I RUN A BUSINESS??? HAAAAAALP and so on and so forth. Any and all support will be GREATLY APPRECIATED.

[lookjustlike]

Teddy does kind of need a job and is good with people, so part-time waiter? He can also function as emergency bouncer.

Also you should probably know that Curt constantly comes in to try to get free food out of Stephen, so Rosella might want to keep an eye on that.

[primrosella]

That'd be great! We've been trying to encourage CR between them anyway, and she already handwaved knows him from the play, so she'd probably happily take him on as a waiter if he expressed interest! o/

ALSO SHE SEES YOU, CURT

Except that she probably won't stop it because lol, charity.

[never_very_good]

Frankie doesn't exactly work there and he doesn't exactly not work there? He used to be part-time at both the Raven and the Blue Light, but then between one thing and another he sort of slid into being at the Raven all the time forever. However I like to think he's sort of 'on call' in case Amory anyone needs a shift picked up.

And now that he has someone keeping an eye on things Underground I can definitely see him being a slightly more regular irregular employee, if you're interested? ^_^;; He doesn't really need the job but he actually kind of likes being a bartender, especially you know with people who don't think about eating him.

/tldr forever

[primrosella]

I'd be more than happy to have him! I think Rosella is probably going to get on a mission to actually, y'know, learn how running a bar works, which MIIIIIIIGHT entail her wanting to learn at least the basics of bartending, so that might make for some interesting interactions, if she drafts her pool of bartenders to give her a crash course in it.

Possibly with an emphasis on crash.

But yes, he's welcome to hop on the payroll if you want!

[valentineluke]

And now that he has someone keeping an eye on things Underground....

The "someone" is flipping out - http://poly-chromatic.dreamwidth.org/343114.html

[hexuality]

LATE SO LATE

Ginny is forever working at the Blue Light as a waitress though I feel like she is or will be occasionally doing things with the joke shop Fred and George left behind. But presumably she works her regular schedule here, etc etc. She makes mentions of Corner Booth Bloke and Pretzel Guy, who are basically... NPCs who hilariously became regulars, idk.

I CAN'T THINK OF THINGS, THAT'S IT FOR... NOW......?

[hexuality]

OH ALSO SHE TRIES VERY HARD TO HONOUR BLUE AND PETER'S REQUESTS TO NOT HEX CUSTOMERS IF THEY PISS HER OFF?

sob she's gotten better at that. and re: magical quirks, she's taken to levitating drinks to her tables when it gets busy or refilling water glasses from across the room because hey, girl's got a wand, use it when she can. |D;;;

[flensing]

Whoops, I just remembered I have this lady in need of a job... She'll be out looking for some work around the end of the month. I would actually sort of adore her getting to meet Rosella at some point...

ANYWAY. She would be excellent waitstaff?

[primrosella]

Fantastic! The Help Wanted post is up right now, but feel free to treat that as a standing offer if you have IC or OOC reasons to wait until the end of the month for her to come inquiring! The Blue Light could always use more waitstaff, and Rosella's happy to give people jobs if they're willing to work. o/

[crowing]

I'M LATE, I'M LATE. But I'm on a hiatus, so forgive me!

I would like to get Ikki hooked up with a job over at the Blue Light! He has experience working in a little Ramen Shop, so he's not entirely new to the whole thing. He was a server and a delivery boy (because Ikki's fast on skates or a bike).

So, uh, could he grab a spot as a waiter?

[primrosella]

NEVER TOO LATE FOR ME, BB.

And sure, it'd be great to have him! There's really no actual experience necessary in an OOC sense, but Rosella will certainly be happy to know he's got some ICly. And will probably want to talk to him about his ROLLERBLADES because by god does she love rollerblades.

So yes, by all means! If handwaving works better for you since you're on hiatus, we can definitely do that, but feel free to tag into her IC post if you want them to chat firsthand. o/

[yourbestguysgun]

Hi!

I actually just came over here to see about Bucky coming to work in the Blue Light thanks to a career change now. If you needed like more bartending work, he would actually adore a job like that. BUT ANYTHING REALLY. Because the Blue Light is super cool, ngl.

/awkward at asking things, eep

[primrosella]

BUCKY GET IN HERE AND LET ME LOVE YOU.

(No seriously he'll make it as far as "Hey, Rosella, could I have a j--" and she will be like YES I LOVE YOU GET ON MY PAYROLL.)

If you'd like him to work as a bartender, he's more than welcome to! I'm not really being picky about the numbers and most everyone that's answered for bartender work has mentioned that it's usually part-time anyway, so there's plenty of precedent for a rotating schedule of them ICly, etc, etc. And if you'd like him to pick up other stuff, too, that's fine as well! I'm happy to work with anything. ♥

[majorcrotchgrab]

As posted on Rose's new entry, Raikov's interested. He used to work at Angelo's Amore when he was here for the first time as a waiter. He also taught himself how to cook (and learned a few things from his mother) so he's pretty good at that.

Not to mention he's handsome and can handle dealing with people rather well, in a professional manner.

[primrosella]

Fantastic! I'll pencil him in on my roundup list for both cook and waiter and go ping you over on her IC post. o/