It's cold here, in August, what the fuck is going on? I woke up this morning freezing, no fan on, slept under a big ass blanket. Went down to work at 6:30 and had to wait outside for an hour until our boss showed up. It was so fuckin cold I had to curl up in a little ball on the ground, until I realised one of the city trucks was open, so I hopped in there but as soon as I did that the boss lady rolls up.
We got these new dudes working since the guy I drive around with will be gone for three months, these guys are something else. When lightposts in the city get tagged up we spraypaint them green because they are all rusted up green lookin. So we're doing some today, and this dude asks my boy if we have any green paint, he says yea it's in the truck. This fool picks up a can of brown paint like is this it? My boy says nah, the one with the green top is the green, that's a brown. Dude has some earth shattering revalation now, like you mean the color on the cap is the color of the paint? I shit you not, this happened this morning.
There is a test you have to take before they hire you for the Sanitation department. They place several items on a table. A hammer, a screwdriver, a crowbar, a shovel and a rake. They then ask you to identify these items. People actually fail this test. Some need to be coached through it. I lose faith in humanity with each passing day.
There was a big city event today, some shit for parents with something to do with the public schools. They had us bring over all these disposable trashcans (crazy concept right?) to set up for the event since supposedly 5000 people were going to be in this parking lot, one that couldn't even fit one thousand tops. Of all the booths set up, only one served food and drinks, yet we had to place a trash box on either side of every booth and then scatter the rest throughout the event perimeter. It was ridiculous, more gross misuse of public funds, since that was probably $200 payroll wasted, they could have been cool with ten boxes at most, instead they had about 50.
My boss is gonna make me into an even bigger alcoholic, at 10am she's already talkin about how as soon as she gets off she's goin straight to the bar. We get off at 2pm. She's the sweetest lady in the world though, the monday after my birthday she bought me a hot fudge cake from Frisch's, today she got me a big ass chocolate milkshake and let me go home early for the second time this week. I don't know how so many people have a hard time getting a long with her.
We got these new dudes working since the guy I drive around with will be gone for three months, these guys are something else. When lightposts in the city get tagged up we spraypaint them green because they are all rusted up green lookin. So we're doing some today, and this dude asks my boy if we have any green paint, he says yea it's in the truck. This fool picks up a can of brown paint like is this it? My boy says nah, the one with the green top is the green, that's a brown. Dude has some earth shattering revalation now, like you mean the color on the cap is the color of the paint? I shit you not, this happened this morning.
There is a test you have to take before they hire you for the Sanitation department. They place several items on a table. A hammer, a screwdriver, a crowbar, a shovel and a rake. They then ask you to identify these items. People actually fail this test. Some need to be coached through it. I lose faith in humanity with each passing day.
There was a big city event today, some shit for parents with something to do with the public schools. They had us bring over all these disposable trashcans (crazy concept right?) to set up for the event since supposedly 5000 people were going to be in this parking lot, one that couldn't even fit one thousand tops. Of all the booths set up, only one served food and drinks, yet we had to place a trash box on either side of every booth and then scatter the rest throughout the event perimeter. It was ridiculous, more gross misuse of public funds, since that was probably $200 payroll wasted, they could have been cool with ten boxes at most, instead they had about 50.
My boss is gonna make me into an even bigger alcoholic, at 10am she's already talkin about how as soon as she gets off she's goin straight to the bar. We get off at 2pm. She's the sweetest lady in the world though, the monday after my birthday she bought me a hot fudge cake from Frisch's, today she got me a big ass chocolate milkshake and let me go home early for the second time this week. I don't know how so many people have a hard time getting a long with her.
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she's too closed minded to think that some of us manipulative types can be ethical and interested in others' well-being as well.