End of Week 1

It is officially the end of Week 1 at work, and I can honestly say I've done almost no work. Okay, Mon - Thurs were supposed training days, so we weren't supposed to be doing work, but yesturday was just a joke. For the morning, our supervisor (Wade) had one of the new part-time girls (Germaine) shuttle us back and forth for our hearing tests. I, by the way, have excellent bilateral hearing. Take that. lol. So we all sat around the shop ALL morning. At one point, Wade had three of us sweep and pressure wash and squeegee the shop floor in General Services. Which was promptly re-dirtied about five minutes later. And then we sat around until lunch. I'm not even joking, we all (like, 12 of us) sat on our asses on the benches and at the table in general services until like, 12 30. Then Wade came in and asked who wanted to go home, and we all put our hands up.

Me, being the keener that I am, was all "If you have work for us to do, I'd rather do that, but if it's between sitting here or going home, I'll go home". So four of us ended up staying to do crappy work no one else wanted to do and the rest went home. (oh, I forgot to mention they had us pick garbage around the yard for all of 45 minutes. Big work there) So Germaine, Kyle, and I swept out the storage bay and then helped Robin fix signs, and Justin went and did summat else in the yard. And then we sat around some more. I figure we did all of 2 hours of work in the 8 hours we were there, so we were basically paid to sit around all day.

But Tuesday will be actual work, I hope. At least they'll issue our jumpsuits to us. Neon slime green, they are. Quite attractive, let me tell you. And we have to wear bright orange hard hats because flaggers sometimes get beer bottles chucked at them.

Oh, and another foreman, Terry, came in in the morning and practically interrogated us to find out who had connections to the county. There are two neices of one the head foremans, one lady whose father-in-law used to work for the county, a guy whose mum worked in the office at one point, and me. Can we say nepotism? lol. But really, it's just because no one else applied and they really needed workers. Whatcha gonna do?

Anywho, today is a lot of sitting around. And not going to bed at frickin 9pm. Because I sleep 9-5. Most people work 9-5. I feel so very old.