Hey More Crap About Work!

Today was a 13.5 hour day. Tomorrow may be the same. God help me!

I had an interesting(infuriating) conversation with one of the customers:
Customer: "Do you have the big swiss chard?"
Me: "Pardon me, sir?"
C: "The big swiss chard." (This doesn't exist).
Me: "We have swiss chard green, and neon sir."
C: "No, the big one!"
Me: "I... uhh, we don't have any?"
C: "I was here last week, you had it." (No we didn't.)
Me: "... I guess we're sold out."

5 minutes later

Customer: "Hey, you got the Sweet Cherry Peppers?"
Me: "Yes sir we do, right here."
C: "Nonono, the sweet cherry pepper. The big one."
M: "The what?"
C: "You know, the big one... pimento."
M: "Oh, the pimento are right here sir, see?"
C: "Nonono, these aren't round. I want the Cherry."
M: "The Cherry are right here sir."
C: "No, I want the big one!"
M: "There is no such thing sir."
C: "I was here last week, you had it."
M (fed up): "No we didn't. It doesn't exist."
Then I just walked off.


I get one of these at least once a day.

More Work Boasting

I worked 63.5 hours this week.
That includes a day off, and this week was slow except for the weekend.

Next week is going to be interesting.

Work at the Greenhouse

Work at the greenhouse has been going on for a week now. Friends will notice an absence of myself for the next month or so. Yesterday was the beginning of the 12-14 hour work day.
So far I have:
- shoveled dirt
- dug a pipeline with a pick-axe
- lifted stuff
- lifted more stuff

It has got to be one of the most mundane and grueling jobs I've ever had.
But it pays a lot, and I can work insane amounts of hours.

I Thought I Never Had to Work Again!

Tomorrow I move my necessities (cat, computer and books) home from the apartment for the first time in what is going to be a constant moving back and forth from St.Catharines to Markham in between working at the greenhouse again.

It's not going to be fun.

The greenhouse is alright, the bosses are great and my buddy Rhett works with me, but it's just the long hours that gets to me. Example: last year we had one week where I worked a total of 80 hours with Rhett even getting in a few more than I.
But with a lot of hours comes a lot of cashmoney baby! I'm gone bathe urr'y night in cristal with honeys all ova da place na'mean!?
Sorry about that... I can go a little crazy when I think about the cashMONEY BABY AWW HELL YEAH SON I'MA BOUT TA BU-

Anyways.
The past week has been me trying to deal with the registrar so that I can actually get the work visa that allows me to work with ECC and so I can finally know where I'm going to be placed. It makes me feel like Tom Cruise in that movie where he plays a basketball named Wilcox who is trapped on an island, but then you find out the island is really in the center of a budding metropolis!


Tomorrow I take the bus home to Markham and then drive back in the car, load the car up with as much crap as I can ( alone :( ) , and then drive back to Markham hopefully in time for dinner. I doubt it.
Then Saturday morning is my first day on the job of my last (oh lord I hope so) summer gig! Then I only have to stress about my damned transcript getting processed on time, moving all my stuff home by the end of this month and the various physical and mental stress involved with working at the greenhouse! I CAN'T WAIT.

As a side note before I leave this blog to rot in the sun, if you ever skipped over the show Arrested Development, go give it another shot. You won't want to stab me in the chest for it.