Sometimes you overhear a conversation and just shake your head. I wonder sometimes if people know how silly they sound.
I work in an office environment. Good, clean, challenging work. The office hours are 8:30 to 5, two 15-minute breaks, with an hour to lunch. There is a good quality cafeteria on site with good prices. They brew Tim Horton’s coffee on site, and the coffee is free. Free parking. Heated in the winter, cooled in the summer. Sounds tough, eh?
So… I come into the office this morning and while my computer is booting up, I go pour my first coffee of the day. While adding the cream and sugar, I overhear these guys talking:
“There was a sticker on my garbage bucket this morning. It said, ‘Please remove garbage from bucket.’ I couldn’t believe it! They didn’t take my garbage because they had to take it out of the bucket? Man!”
“What?!?! They didn’t take your garbage? They left it there? Because you didn’t take it out of the bucket? We are too easy on these people. They are spoiled!”
I’m glad I didn’t make eye contact with the guy, because I would have just laughed at him. You’ve already read my summary of how “tough” it is around here. Now, these “spoiled” garbage men have to work overnight in minus 20 Celsius (not counting the wind chill factor) and go around the streets collecting other people’s garbage. Forgive me, but I think putting the garbage on the curb is not too much to ask.
Who’s spoiled? Hey dude, take your friggin’ garbage out of your bucket and stop whining about it.
Pender
January 29, 2007 at 2:08 pm
They wouldn’t take the garbage out of the bucket? MY GOD! What is a person to do with their garbage after it is not picked up? Throw it on the street I say! Someone’s gotta be reminded what a spoiled friggin’ brat you are, and that someone may as well be everyone who traverses your neighbourhood.
rekounas
January 29, 2007 at 4:12 pm
You get breaks?
Steve
January 29, 2007 at 4:31 pm
Breaks? I don’t personally take them. I work through my lunch too… but as a general rule, that’s the way people work. So, bitching about how spoiled the garbage man is just doesn’t jive with me, you know? I actually worked one summer collecting residential garbage and it is NOT pleasant. I can’t imagine doing it in the winter.
rekounas
January 29, 2007 at 5:43 pm
My worst jobs ever were the first two jobs I have ever had. My first job was a front desk clerk at this crappy hotel in West Saint John. The owner was a drunk and would call me an idiot. Being 17 and it being my first job, I didn’t tell him to screw himself. Although I did hang up on him frequently. Then I was let go via fax. My second job, maybe just as crappy but at least I got tips. I was a busboy at House of Chan. Most of the people there were nice except the cooks. They use to do hot knives in between buffets. You would think this would mellow them out, but instead they just made them paranoid symptom and they would want to fight the busboys. I quit there after 2 months. Most of the other places I worked were pretty good.
Pender
February 23, 2007 at 12:26 pm
What is “hot knives”?
Steve
February 23, 2007 at 12:40 pm
Hot knifing is a technique used to smoke hashish. One would heat up two butter knives, under a torch or hooked into the elements on a stovetop, and then touch one of them against a little ball of hash. The hash would stick. Then they push the other hot knife up against it and squeeze. The heat and pressure burn the hash and the user inhales the rising smoke.
I think.
rekounas
February 23, 2007 at 1:31 pm
You should have been a high school teacher Steve
Pender
March 5, 2007 at 4:24 pm
I agree, his explanations are exemplery!
Steve
March 5, 2007 at 5:53 pm
… and I hear it’s really funny to touch your buddy’s lip with the knife when he is too baked to feel it right away!