I came clean with my actions on March 31, 2022 with Ms. Moen, and Ms. Gold. What I did to a student named Christian Riley was an April Fools joke gone wrong. Giving him a card by posing as “his best friend”, I realized that I went way too far on said joke. I felt nervous about my actions for the remainder of class and confessed my actions with Moen. From there, I reported myself to Christine Gold, Dean of the Behavior and Social Sciences division, and Greg Toya, Director of the Student Development Office in the Activities Center. What I did in class on Thursday was a disgusting thing. I openly confessed to my friends what made me pick the Thursday morning class over the Wednesday evening class, which basically covers the same material.

At the time of registration, which was around Thanksgiving 2021, I was majorly fed up with my working conditions. For example, my new general manager Endang Widjaja (who is openly hated by everybody in the world, even former ECC student Vijay Sheth, ergo making her Public Enemy #1) schedules people based on trustworthiness. She decided that the more trustworthy you are, the more shifts you will get. I did not want to get far in life via flattery. Meanwhile, those unmotivated to work (no matter how they feel) get little to no shifts. I told Ms. Gold about my other friend named Marley Muniz.

Marley was going to be a shift lead at Smashburger. I work at the one near Redondo Union High School. Because of Marley taking sick days, Endang believes Marley is not motivated to work. If that’s bad enough, what’s worse is that she paints Marley as “unreliable” for skipping out on work to take her mother to a medical emergency. I gave Marley some of my shifts because Endang overworks the trustworthy employees with 5-6 shifts a week. It’s not just me; Matt Marsella and Jordyn Velasquez also offered to give Marley some shifts so she gets more work. However, Endang refuses because Marley did not come into work on the night she was supposed to cover for a cook named Samuel Lux. Justine Strickland, who worked at Redondo for a little bit, agreed that it’s absurd that Endang would call Marley “unreliable” over a family matter.

Fed up with this bogus logic, Marley and her friend Alexs Casillas (she is unrelated to former [Manhattan Beach] general manager Selina Casillas) visited the restaurant and cursed Endang out. She also threw a milkshake at her. To be honest, the mean lady had it coming for everything she’s done to me and my friends the summer she came to the restaurant. Endang may decide Marley is terminated (along with being given a restraining order that prevents her from visiting the restaurant), but me and my friends decide Marley quit.

I talked to my boss about working fewer shifts while I was in online school. However, with a sharp tongue, she tells me she needs my help, ergo giving me way too many shifts. I told her I have worked way too many shifts, but she urgently needs me. Now you know why I, Alexandros Martinez, get a lot of negative reviews on Yelp. The way she overworked me since she came to Redondo negatively impacted my sanity. I was a completely different person when Sarah Nicholas (the general manager before Endang) was working there, which was last Spring. Plus, judging by Endang’s attitude, she is also hypocritical. She says that one of my friends (Marley) has an attitude, when she has one herself. Me and my friends wish that Endang would be toppled from her position as general manager and get a new one who we would consider “a breath of fresh air”.

I did tell Ms. Gold (BSS Division Office) that if my boss did not overwork me like that, I would’ve been fine with Moen’s Wednesday evening class from the start. We all get that during registration, I was tired of being overworked, in which my boss schedules people based on trustworthiness. Some of my other friends believe that giving people too many shifts (5-6 shifts a week) while the other has less (0-2) is absurd. One of them argued that “we all have lives to live”. She even scheduled people on the days we have important commitments (football practice for Ethan, dental appointment for Alex, jury duty for Nate, et al.). In summary, Endang is torture.

If I do make it out of the meeting alive, we all hope that when I leave the office, I should remain on my best behavior. Especially, since Spring 2022 is my last semester at El Camino College. There was a Child Development 169 class, which is the practicum for the Special Education Assistant program, but that was discontinued after Spring 2021.