Ok. Maybe I’m just odd. I’ll throw it out to all of my many readers.
If the foreman on site has mentioned three times in the last week that the job ends at 3:15, not 3:00, that he will be docking guys time, that we are supposed to call in our own hours outside of the time sheet reporting, and that any discrepancy can be cause for firing would it not be in your best interest to, say, leave sometime after 3:01 pm?
Maybe it’s a test for the new guys. Maybe it’s just him being annoying. Maybe he got in trouble from his boss. Whatever the reason, the foreman has mentioned this fact more than once. He told guys off again last night as I discovered at break — and finding out explained why we got the same damned lecture for a second day in a row.
I was the last freaking person to the job box today. The foreman was sitting at the lunch table. When he saw me he marked one last thing on his pile of papers, told me to lock the box when I was done and he left. That was at 3:10.
Does it not strike anyone as a good idea to maybe, just maybe, take him at his word?
What I learned today:
- I have a place in my head I can go where the pain and frustration of the day magically disappears.
- I have a place in my body that doesn’t move well after having a day where I either got better or went to the magical pain easing place.
- That place in my body is my body. Damn I’m sore. And that’s after a hot bath, extra strength aspirin, and a glass of Hiram Walker Special Old Whiskey (there was a break between the first two and the latter don’t worry)