on a different board i frequent, the question was asked "where do you work"
what i thought would be a short answer turned out to be a fucking essay, i didnt really mean to do this but it just came so natural and was quite fun i must say, i held back a couple times from rambling even more. i never used the enter key but there is some puncuation, so sorry if its hard to read. i really need to write more, even though im no
insert literary mogal here i enjoy it, it atleast an hour, not really sure but it went by quick. helped me realize my life really is very exciting.
if you dont wanna read it, i understand... i just feel compelled to share my hardwork, and isnt the internet all about getting to know people?
what a previous poster said....
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I'm a school-bus driver. Behind the wheel when all your little bastard brats have to get to class.
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i work in the routing dept at the local school district transportation dept. while you are "downstairs" and in the garage, think of me fucking around on the internet "upstairs" and getting paid for it while spending 10% of my time acually writing code but still getting done what they want me to do.
i love my job, thing i hear the most?
"please see your field cordinator"
i also just started at the local elementry school doing network administration and general maintenence of their computer systems. go in every friday for a few hours and fix whatever a bunch of kindergardeners broke over the week.
the school district now has me in the system, they love hiring students because they pay me minimum wage for tasks that i could get twice as much off of if i was out of college and a real "person". so they have me in transportation, at the elementry school, at my high school i am in the computer tech class which is fixing their shit and the only payment i get for THAT is half a credit. although through that class ive gotten all these bitchin ass jobs, sometimes some freelance that my teacher finds for me. next summer i think i might be working in the technology dept, not really sure. thats just what everyone tells me but i think there is a limit to how much a student can legally work for the district.
i made big bucks over the summer, or atleast big for a 16 yr old. now im working shit hours, two everyday and i have to bike 10 miles everyday. id MUCH rather work 4 hours every other day, or no fuck that... i just hate consistantsy, i loved getting a different scheduale every week at subway.
my office acually really blows, the only good thing is best buy accross the street. i can play guitar hero during lunch... oh thats another sad thing, since i work after school now i dont have any breaks. no more 2 hour lunch breaks for me
one person always calls evan (the name of the kid who had my position before me, she is jewish i think and whenever she hears my real name (ben-david) she tells me how jewish it is and about her childrens jewish names and how one of her sons is __________ ben abraham because his father wasnt of the faith so they named him ben abraham (son of abraham). i tell her i am not jewish but i was named after a friend of my dads who was. she is the big bus router (normal kids), the small bus router (retards) is deaf and has hearing aids and talks with a rather irriaiting lisp apparently its from years of playing music and is a good guitarist with some band. he says he wishes he had a guitar by his computer so he could relieve his stress. my boss is asian, he is a fucken weirdo. he always tells me about "the good ole days" when an error in the jumpers would erase the whole hard drive, and the whole history of RAID 5, along with his fond memories of his first 1 GB HD, he has some plan to become rich... he is starting a commerce server that sells some shit, he is single but talks about his previous girlfriends but i am not sure if he has one now. i acually dont know what nationality he is, the first day of work he took me out to chinese and he told me a japanese joke, but it was in favor of the japs dissing on americans so i am not sure, korean maybe? we have alot of asians here and i can usually tell, i only know one vietnamese... they are rare. he studders alot, like he cant think of a word, but the word is like "hard drive" or something like that. kevin just writes excel macros all day, some pretty cool stuff that i avoid... hate VBA. he acually is a bus driver that broke his back and filled workmans comp, so since he cant drive they are milking his mad excel skills but they told him they will pay 100% of his medical bills if he quits, since back problems are usually reoccuring so i think he is about to start up a buisness, or restart one he ran years ago. one of them gives me candy everyday, its kinda creepy but i eat it anyway. our coffee sucks ass, almost everything is decaf, i usually have to make my own because whats in the pot you cant really tell until its to late. pretty shitty maker too, one of those ones with two pots and they use the tap water from the kitchen too which is fucking gross. the water fountain is ok, but not much better. the secretary is kinda weird, i could totally see her having a cliche hollywood affair with the boss (not the asian one, the BIG boss) its always awkward around her, she is like "hey i heard someone grinding some beans" and then she tastes my coffee and pours it out and while she is making a new pot tries to converse... "hey you like coffee?", "thats cool, i love coffee".
big boss, he is total OCD. all about respect and all that shit, which is cool i guess. gets mad at me when i fix around or replace his computer and all his desk ornamints arent exactly where he left them but concludes with "i am not mad at you". there is this other dude, he is pretty high up, i dont really know what he does. he was sick the first month i was working there which is when i was getting to know people. he has a huge belly, like he isnt fat anywhere else, except his stomach hangs over his belt like to other and he walks funny. some other girl, she is like 45 but told us of some time she got drunk and took off her clothes. carl is trainer and he recently was in the newspaper saying he wouldnt give up his job for anything in the world. haha. susan looks like a cute, stalky, short older women but she rides a motorcycle and has a badass looking husband who rides one too. there is this one driver who calls me shaggy all the time, i dont even think he knows my name, and i dont know his either. when i started i had pretty shaggy hair, ive since had it trimmed. once in awhile while i am biking to work after school ill cross paths with his bus and he will yell "shaggy" out the window. there was this dude named TG, totally stereotypical office trash but he went over to some other district transportation program. he had the goofy laugh, looked like he came straight out of office space, made jokes about soccer during the world cup, talking about pcs and macs. the payroll specialist is sorta normal, she has a few children and now her husband has some sort of eye tumour and she has to inject something into his eye like everyday.