Quote (Caulder10 @ Jan 27 2013 08:06pm)
good luck on first day!
holy fuck
ok
so my dads friend Pete drove me to my first day of work
Pete is cool and doesn't give a fuck
so i'm at the bus stop at 5:50 am waiting for him
i'm in a bus shelter on a street corner and i consider if i were female, i'd be looking like a prostitute
so pete rolls up in his truck
i say to myself 'pat, let's try to make this as least awkward as possible'
sounds good.
i open the door and hop in the back seat, thinking nothing of it
close the door, put on my seatbelt.
'oh, you're sitting in the back'
'yeah it's fine'
he starts driving, then
'i'm a little uncomfortable with that but ok'
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what the FUCK does this even mean???
if there was ever a preface to a shitty day, this was it. this was my warning. 3 minutes in and i was already feeling like a piece of shit.
thank god there's music playing, otherwise i'd feel awkward as fuck
so we're driving a good 20 minutes
we are young by FUN comes on the radio, i become a little happy
alright, let's do this
i'm pumped
this song reminds me of my happy times at wal-mart
fuck everything
i'm unstoppable
and that's when it happened.
something that was simply inevitable
something that i should have known was coming, the universe was making its usual preparation to fuck me over royally
something that god himself conjured up, giving me a wink and a swift 'fuck you pat'
pete puts his hand on the volume.
pete wot r u doing
pete
stahp
mute.
silence fills the truck
despair fills my entire being
i knew this feeling all too well, and i knew it was the end
small-talk was about to be engaged.
i consider opening the door and jumping out
my plan is cut short when the first question is hurled at me like a tornado
15 minutes later, pete has learned his lesson
he'll never turn off the god damn radio ever again
those insatiably awkward 15 minutes of silence seemed to span a millennium.
he drops me off
it's 6:30
i go into the lunch room
there's 60+ people there
???
i go sit by some guys who look like they're important people
the name's pender
patrick pender.
the guy then says something i don't hear. something that i'm sure is extremely valuable information
i then smile at him and sit down
i panic for 2-3 minutes
then i realize it is now officially too late to ask him what he said without sounding crazy
and i still don't know what the fuck or where the fuck or WHO the fuck
i consider jumping in the back of a dump truck and covering myself in snow and live the rest of my life there
thankfully, an old woman appears, and knows i'm new just by looking at me
she takes me under her wing
i become her apprentice
we bond
i consider what our lives would be like if we were married
then she says 'does your mom know you're out"?
okay eileen
kind of rude and mean as fuck
then two extremely attractive women appear
it's as if somebody rang a bell
i'll get back to this shortly.
so 7:00 finally comes
it's already been the worse day of my life and it hasn't even started yet
the boss starts off the meeting with a bunch of generic safety shit and attempts to bring laughter onto the crowd
his attempts are unsuccessful
then he acknowledges that they have new members starting
there was me and two other new guys there.
he introduces the both of them
then ignores me
i sit there vaguely trying to announce to the people around me that i have some sort of hearing issues, and that i simply didn't hear the boss not acknowledge me
doesn't work
i consider crawling under the table to make an escape attempt
all i can say is, thank fuck for eileen.
she tells the boss that he forgot about me
'oh' he says
'pat-reek'
sure
i can accept this
my name is patreek
nice to meet you all
it's at this point that the boss starts saying the other co-workers are going to have to show the new guys 'the ropes'
read: very attractive women
read: the absolute worst day in the history of patrick pender that literally cannot get any worse actually does get worse
i start crying inside my mind
i turn to jesus
i pray
i tell god i'll give him my first born. just do not pair me up with one of these attractive women. i apologize profusely to the universe for calling it such bad names. i beg for forgiveness. a single tear drops down my cheek
and wouldn't you know it
i didn't get paired with either of them
i got eileen
i consider jumping on the table and breaking down into tears
i promised god i'd give him my first born, and that's a promise i whole-heartedly intend to keep
okay
7:20
time to work.
i'm ready to do some hardcore motherfucking snow shovelling
first thing's first, we go get a truck.
the site i'm working at is a massive oil refinery you should know. it's massive. there are a ton of roads and god damn giant oil tanks everywhere
so everyone travels around in a company truck
and there's like 10 there
so me, patreek the newfie
eileen the 60 year old saviour of my life
and a grumpy ass bitch named paula set out to find ourselves a truck
we pick one
turns out, there's an ice sheet as big as greenland on the windshield that needs defrosting
turns out, we pick the only truck there that also needs oil.
cool
read: i stand around like an asshole with my hands in my pockets waiting for these guys to oil the truck
there's a point where i'm with paula alone for 10 minutes
literally doesn't say a thing to me
i was shocked
she seemed to honestly not give a fuck about the silence
and no, she wasn't like me
she was just grumpy
and pretty mean to me later
which i'll get into
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trucks defrosted
it's 8:00
i hop in
put on my helmet and glasses
ready to roll
bring the action
where's the mountain of snow
oh
turns out there's no snow to be shovelled
oh
turns out we're driving around the entire site changing out the garbage bags
okay
we do this for 2 hours
and by we, i mean paula
because i literally just sat inside the truck
because it's not a 2 person job
so i'm just sitting here
trying not to fall asleep
it's been 3 hours and paula still has yet to say a word to me
then she finally turns around and looks me in the eye
'where's your safety strap"
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my wut
"your safety strap"
either this woman was inviting me to have sex with her and was asking me where i hid condoms or i had no fucking idea what a safety strap was
?
"the strap you attach to your glasses that goes around your helmet"
oh
you mean the strap that my dad broke last night when trying to attach it and then told me nobody uses them and they're useless and irrelevent
THAT safety strap
'my dad broke it and told me i didn't have to worry about " *cute innocent smile because i'm so new and novice*
'WELL YOUR DAD ISN'T HERE"
literally have never wanted to cry so badly in my life
god damn this woman
just looked like the devil
apparently i'll be working with her every single day too lol!
okay
3 hours of driving around later and me doing literally fucking nothing but sitting down
we have to go switch out the cigarette trays
which are these things that are next to the garbage cans, where people just put their cigarette butts when they're finished
umm, okay
we go to the first place. there are two smoke trays.
if there was only one, i would have stayed in the truck and let paula the pragmatist do it herself
but there were two
so me being a gentleman and a nice guy
i hop out right quick like and go to the one opposite of paula
i take the top off
and so help me jesus
i gagged so fucking hard
tears came out of my nose
this is without a doubt the smelliest fucking shit i've ever smelled in my entire god damn existence
and i've smelled some shit in my day
the stench of this shit
could gag a maggot
and no ordinary maggot
a maggot who's terminally ill that has aids and is spending the finale of its life throwing up everywhere and shitting the bed
this particular maggot
would gag
upon smelling this malevolent evil
cool, we get to do this for 2 hours lol!
awesome lol!
2:00 rolls around
i'm bored as fuck
i spend my time staring at the clock waiting for the minutes to move
wal-mart was literally an amusement park compared to this shit
i'm falling asleep
literally not paying attention to anything
i've been with these two people for 7 hours so far today
and i've literally spoke less than 20 words
sucks for them they didn't get the new guy named andrew who is sexy and has the jokes
i feel their pain. truthfully.
3:00 comes
pretty sure i've literally died by this point and that the clock is no longer moving because time simply doesn't exist for me anymore
3:01 comes
literally feel the exact same way as i did when it turned 3:00
this continues on until 5:00
when we finally make preparations to go home
and that my friends
is all about my first day of work
and i get to experience this all over again
in 8 hours and 59 minutes lol!
for another 13 days straight lol!
if anybody wants to get to know me, do it within the next two weeks
because there is literally no way
i'm going to survive this shit. afk sleep + another day of torture