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Work and Stuff...
Date: Oct 21st, 2006 8:34:37 am - Subscribe
Mood: irritated


Yeah yeah... for those of you who don't know (basically almost of you actually) I got a job. It's at Churn Creek Car Wash. It's basically AWESOME. k, so basically here's how it goes: Person A greets the customer while person B sprays bug juice on the front of the car and sprays the other side and the back down with water. Person A wraps up with the customer and spray their side, grab a brush, and scrub thier side, while Person B brushes his side, the back, and usually the hood. Person A and B finish at about the same time, and one of them works on the bugs on the bumper, mirrors, and windshield, while the other works on the rims. Then Person A guides the previous car out of the car wash machine thing while person B sprays off the back, and guides the first car into the machine thing, then it starts all over.

So ok, I work with Jesse, Nick, Thomas, and Kyle. I worked with the first 3 for my first three days. They're awesome and I love workin with em yada yada yada. Since I'm a newbie (or however you spell that), they don't have to split tips with me because supposedly newbies are in the way more than anything. But aparently i have this.... gift.... haha for washin cars, coz I work my butt off and they all split tips with me. So my first three days were great, Mon and Tues I made like 3 bucks an hour in tips, Wed I made 6 bucks an hour JUST IN TIPS. Pretty sweet. I walked home with 35 bucks in my pocket. In tips. It made me very very happy, and I took Hilary to see a movie that night lol.
So day four comes around (yesterday) and I go to the car wash and stuff. I work for the first hour and a half with Jesse, we worked our butts off, split tips, and I got 7 bucks, which wasn't bad good coz it was kinda a slow day. Then Jesse leaves, and I work with kyle. Holy crap. That guy is the biggest asshole. Seriously dude. He would give me so much crap about the littlest things. Like he started complaining about how I was doing short strokes with my brush and how I needed to do long strokes. I tried that, but it didn't work as well, so I went back to the short strokes. He jumped on me for it and I basically said that my way worked better for me, which kinda pissed him off. EVERYTHING he said to me was sarcastic. Dale had me work on this excel spreadsheet with jesse, and kyle came in and said "hey chad, we don't play on the computer, common, get to work" Jesse jumped on him tho, so that was cool.
Jus a side note... kyle's supposed to be the computer guy or w/e. But since I used the same program in yearbook all year long, I know how to do everything literally twice as fast as he does, which also ticks him off. He's kinda chunky too, so and he doesn't wash cars nearly as fast as most people, so I was goin faster than him, which ticked him off and made him look like a slacker. He told me to do a few things that my boss told me not to do, and told me not to do a few things my boss told me to do, and when I said "hey umm... my boss told me I wasn't supposed to do that..." He'd say somethin along the lines of "well I don't give a f*** about dale". So I dunno. Like I wanna say somethin to dale, but I have no idea how to do it or what to say or how not to look like a tatle tale. Also, he made me do all the dirty work, like clean out the vaccuums (trust me, it's a crappy job), and in the end, after I worked twice as hard as he did and did all the dirty work, he didn't split the tips with me. He also kinda takes pride in bein a jerk too. he mentioned to me "yeah, I'm pretty much the biggest pain in the ass to work with around here... I have basically no patience, I'm suprised they didn't warn you. You'll learn to deal with it" Yeah... great team player. So yeah, everything about the carwash is great, cept for the part with I'm workin with him bout 1/3 of the time, which SUCKS. most of the guys treat me like, a team player and teach me stuff and stuff. He basically treats me like his personal piss on slave. It sucks.... so yeah, I have no idea how I'm gonna talk to my boss about his. So yeah, there's my work life for ya. It's good money, hard work, and good people.... for the most part.
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