Wow!! I feel like a rich man!!
But!!! I'm not. So I have to deal with the punch's of life. Look Out! Here comes that haymaker!!
Since I was on CS last time, what, 6 month's ago I decided to go back to work. I looked around and found a job with a casino named Avi. Here in Bullhead City the town is right on the Colorado River before it leaves the state to flow into Mexico. And right across the river is a town named Laughlin. It was named by the guy who actually developed the area. A man named Don Laughlin. But that's another story so I will continue with what I started.
The job at Avi was fine and suited my "career desire" which was actually just make a few bucks to see the grandkids once in awhile back in California. It worked out well except I was having problems with a couple of guys that were too pushy and bossy. These guys were supposed to train me but they acted like a couple of thugs!
The duty I was performing was simply maintenance. I have had many jobs that required a little bit of savvy but i was never one to push that back on anyone. Here at this casino part of maintenance was sweeping the theaters out. We did this with a small broom and a dust pan. The main idea was to get it as clean as possible. Not the hardest thing to do but these 2 guys were impossible. Leaving a single popcorn under the seat was not acceptable. I had a good laugh at their expense and I told them to relax because one popcorn was not the end of the world. Simply push it back under and we'll get it tomorrow! My thinking is that since the one popcorn won't make the theater look crummy and since we had 7 more to clean let's get it going.
The crew was shorthanded and remained that way to the day I quit. We were pushed for time and the job also required us to have a flashlight in our mouth because we couldn't see everything in the dim lit theaters. And since we were using our hands to manipulate the broom and the pan our mouth's were the only option to hold the flashlights.
I finally had enough and i quit. I don't mind doing a maintenance job but for crying out loud. When there's not enough people to maintain the casino then give us a break. There were maybe 8 employees to clean the whole place and the call off's were impossible. If we had 6 or 7 workers show up we were lucky.
My biggest gripe here was the thinking of companies. Any company. Why is the maintenance job always low pay? The old time mentality was that it took no kind of intelligence to do this job. BUT, let's consider the health problems here. It's easy to contract disease from just about anything in cleaning. We had to have special training in Hazmat cleaning because drunkards get sick and vomit or defecate on the floors sometimes. They dispose of needles in the trash so you have to be careful when picking up trash. And the list goes on.
I had enough and it was time to move on. I can say this for sure, i am glad to have some time off and get back on CS and other blogging. Yeah, it's good to be back!!
Comments (8)
Good to have you back my friend!
Once again, Nice to see you back BUD.
Plenty of people are willing to do maintenance jobs so supply exceeds demand and thus the wage is low-ish.
You'll easily pick up another one with better working conditions.
In a way it makes you back here and that's good my friend.
there's always something better...you'll see
You were right in leaving that job. I mean, life is too short to put up with that kind of behavior from them others. You're a good guy and you deserve a better job than that, and a job that treats people better too.
When I was in charge of some employees back in the late 80's and 90's, I always treated them good, because I knew that by treating them good and keeping the atmosphere positive, it helped to motivate them, to encourage them to do their best for the company, the show, for me and themselves.
Thanks for the blog. Keep on blogging and smiling.
My good man! thanks!!