| 30 December 2003 |
Scorcher.
Boy was today hot, the hottest December day in 23 years.
Not much I did today, apart from work.
Last night I sat down and looked at some blogs, and almost punched myself in the face for it. I couldn't believe the shit that people post, like pure depressing shit thats hard to read and a complete smacktard who can't spell Sydney.
Also Mitch sent me some link to a cool Korean website with some funky little animations.
http://www.boombastick.net
Not much I did today, apart from work.
Last night I sat down and looked at some blogs, and almost punched myself in the face for it. I couldn't believe the shit that people post, like pure depressing shit thats hard to read and a complete smacktard who can't spell Sydney.
Also Mitch sent me some link to a cool Korean website with some funky little animations.
http://www.boombastick.net
| 29 December 2003 |
Lord of the Monday: Return of the sweaty overalls.
A nice hot day today, and another callout.
Some couple in Baxter phoned in a tree down on their property. Nice big tree, one of it's limbs fell off.
I just drove straight there, because it was quicker than driving to Hastings first. When I got there, I was given a warm welcome which was great.
<Lady> wow! that was quick! and service with a smile!
<Lady> you guys should get medals you know, the things you people do are excellent
That was really warming and nice of her I thought, a lot nicer than;
<Bogan> you should get here quicker, what do you think you're getting paid for?
Anyhoo.. My controller soon turned up in his car, and Rescue: 1, and Rescue: 2, soon turned up and we cleared the tree up.
Some Baxter bogans came out to see what was going on, some guy comes running out because he saw the red & blue lights flashing, and is all like; "whats going on! whats going on!?!", so I stabbed him in the face with the chainsaw.
I hate my job.
Another bullshit day at work today, I got called out, and my store manger Mark Smith (aka. Cock Face) was a rude son of a bitch to me about it.
So afterwards I went down there to try and clear things up, and he was still rude to me, and tried to avoid me.
I've noticed he's being more and more of a jerk to me. I think I will put him on my list, my "do not help" list. Or at least my "trample garden or damage property" list if I ever get called out to help him. Jerk.
I can see myself getting into a heated argument realllly soon, this is how Lou and I pretty much got started into one of our heated arguments.
On another note, went and saw Lord of The Rings: Return of The King.
What a cesspool of crap that was, I kept falling asleep. Don't get me wrong, some of the things were cool, but the ghosts in that. Ugh, I can't stop stressing how gay they looked. And the fact that the "suspense" scean's just went for fucking EVER!!
"I may not be able to carry the ring, but I can carry you Mr. Frodo", Well about fucking time they get up that mountain and destroy the ring. But NO, it couldn't be that easy, they have to pan up the mountain to show everyone how much further they have to go. I couldn't stop fidgetting in my seat, I was getting restless.
Some couple in Baxter phoned in a tree down on their property. Nice big tree, one of it's limbs fell off.
I just drove straight there, because it was quicker than driving to Hastings first. When I got there, I was given a warm welcome which was great.
<Lady> wow! that was quick! and service with a smile!
<Lady> you guys should get medals you know, the things you people do are excellent
That was really warming and nice of her I thought, a lot nicer than;
<Bogan> you should get here quicker, what do you think you're getting paid for?
Anyhoo.. My controller soon turned up in his car, and Rescue: 1, and Rescue: 2, soon turned up and we cleared the tree up.
Some Baxter bogans came out to see what was going on, some guy comes running out because he saw the red & blue lights flashing, and is all like; "whats going on! whats going on!?!", so I stabbed him in the face with the chainsaw.
Another bullshit day at work today, I got called out, and my store manger Mark Smith (aka. Cock Face) was a rude son of a bitch to me about it.
So afterwards I went down there to try and clear things up, and he was still rude to me, and tried to avoid me.
I've noticed he's being more and more of a jerk to me. I think I will put him on my list, my "do not help" list. Or at least my "trample garden or damage property" list if I ever get called out to help him. Jerk.
I can see myself getting into a heated argument realllly soon, this is how Lou and I pretty much got started into one of our heated arguments.
On another note, went and saw Lord of The Rings: Return of The King.
What a cesspool of crap that was, I kept falling asleep. Don't get me wrong, some of the things were cool, but the ghosts in that. Ugh, I can't stop stressing how gay they looked. And the fact that the "suspense" scean's just went for fucking EVER!!
"I may not be able to carry the ring, but I can carry you Mr. Frodo", Well about fucking time they get up that mountain and destroy the ring. But NO, it couldn't be that easy, they have to pan up the mountain to show everyone how much further they have to go. I couldn't stop fidgetting in my seat, I was getting restless.
So afterwards I went down there to try and clear things up, and he was still rude to me, and tried to avoid me.
I've noticed he's being more and more of a jerk to me. I think I will put him on my list, my "do not help" list. Or at least my "trample garden or damage property" list if I ever get called out to help him. Jerk.
I can see myself getting into a heated argument realllly soon, this is how Lou and I pretty much got started into one of our heated arguments.
On another note, went and saw Lord of The Rings: Return of The King.
What a cesspool of crap that was, I kept falling asleep. Don't get me wrong, some of the things were cool, but the ghosts in that. Ugh, I can't stop stressing how gay they looked. And the fact that the "suspense" scean's just went for fucking EVER!!
"I may not be able to carry the ring, but I can carry you Mr. Frodo", Well about fucking time they get up that mountain and destroy the ring. But NO, it couldn't be that easy, they have to pan up the mountain to show everyone how much further they have to go. I couldn't stop fidgetting in my seat, I was getting restless.
| 25 December 2003 |
Merry Christmas Fuckersss!
Ok, I am going to sum up the past two days (yesterday and today).
Yesterday:
Yesterday I was stuck working in the liquor department until 11:00pm (23:00). My fucking god it was busy, we had two people on the registers and 3-4 people in the store re-filling the shelves, it was insane. The moment I fill up the fridge, it's empty again. Apart from the overall lameness of working, both liquor and the main part of the store closed at 10:00pm (22:00). Despite having signs up over all our doors for the past month telling people this, people still turned up and were surpised to find them closed!
Nothing warmed my heart more, than seeing some random ock's and bogan's walking up to the closed doors of the liquor department and getting a shock that the doors aren't opening for them.
<Bogan> you closed mate??
<Me> yes..
<Bogan> can you just put me through?
<Me> no.
<Bogan> come on mate, I just needa get me a few stubbies!
<Me> sorry, as I said, we're closed.
<Bogan> fuck this shit!
* Bogan walks up to the store
<Bogan> what the fuck!? this is closed too!
* Me looks out the window laughing at them
And.. so on and so forth, similar things with the random ocks.
Once we shut the store up, Daniel and myself just fixed up the mauled shelves and re-filled the fridges and stuff until it was time to knock off.
Today:
Yes! today is Christmas!
I was woken up this morning by the sound of my mother knocking on my bedroom door; "wake up! we want to open our presents!".
To which I showed much disinterest in the idea, as I had worked my ass off the night before, and wanted sleep. However, I got up anyway, and crawled onto my PC. And had a quick chat to Evan who also shared similar disinterest in the whole Christmas spirit idea.
Anyway, I got a new fishing rod and reel, and some other small random things. Some nice smelling stuff from my sister which isn't that bad at all, I like it.
Not long after that, my pager went off, and away I went down to the SES depot.
The two members who met me there didn't seem to be too devo about being called out, I guess prehaps they had the same lack of 'Christmas Spirit' that I did. The callout was just some tree down over some dirt road, in the FRANKSTON SES area, so why we were called out I have no idea. The tree was only blocking off access to two farm houses.
We went down there with the lights and sirens going off, which was cool. People sort of give you a stupid look, I guess they're kind of wondering what you're doing. I dunno, just reminds me of customers.
We met the cops there, who pissed off once we arrived. Then we got stuck into it, clearing it up and crap like that. Our SES Controller met us in the nice twin cab vehichle.
Wished us a merry Christmas and then nicked off.
Once that was all done, it was back off home we went, but had to stop off at the fuel station to get fuel for the truck. And some guy is like; "wow, working on Christmas guys? what do you get for that, triple time!?"
Yes, triple of nothing :)
Yesterday:
Yesterday I was stuck working in the liquor department until 11:00pm (23:00). My fucking god it was busy, we had two people on the registers and 3-4 people in the store re-filling the shelves, it was insane. The moment I fill up the fridge, it's empty again. Apart from the overall lameness of working, both liquor and the main part of the store closed at 10:00pm (22:00). Despite having signs up over all our doors for the past month telling people this, people still turned up and were surpised to find them closed!
Nothing warmed my heart more, than seeing some random ock's and bogan's walking up to the closed doors of the liquor department and getting a shock that the doors aren't opening for them.
<Bogan> you closed mate??
<Me> yes..
<Bogan> can you just put me through?
<Me> no.
<Bogan> come on mate, I just needa get me a few stubbies!
<Me> sorry, as I said, we're closed.
<Bogan> fuck this shit!
* Bogan walks up to the store
<Bogan> what the fuck!? this is closed too!
* Me looks out the window laughing at them
And.. so on and so forth, similar things with the random ocks.
Once we shut the store up, Daniel and myself just fixed up the mauled shelves and re-filled the fridges and stuff until it was time to knock off.
Today:
Yes! today is Christmas!
I was woken up this morning by the sound of my mother knocking on my bedroom door; "wake up! we want to open our presents!".
To which I showed much disinterest in the idea, as I had worked my ass off the night before, and wanted sleep. However, I got up anyway, and crawled onto my PC. And had a quick chat to Evan who also shared similar disinterest in the whole Christmas spirit idea.
Anyway, I got a new fishing rod and reel, and some other small random things. Some nice smelling stuff from my sister which isn't that bad at all, I like it.
Not long after that, my pager went off, and away I went down to the SES depot.
The two members who met me there didn't seem to be too devo about being called out, I guess prehaps they had the same lack of 'Christmas Spirit' that I did. The callout was just some tree down over some dirt road, in the FRANKSTON SES area, so why we were called out I have no idea. The tree was only blocking off access to two farm houses.
We went down there with the lights and sirens going off, which was cool. People sort of give you a stupid look, I guess they're kind of wondering what you're doing. I dunno, just reminds me of customers.
We met the cops there, who pissed off once we arrived. Then we got stuck into it, clearing it up and crap like that. Our SES Controller met us in the nice twin cab vehichle.
Wished us a merry Christmas and then nicked off.
Once that was all done, it was back off home we went, but had to stop off at the fuel station to get fuel for the truck. And some guy is like; "wow, working on Christmas guys? what do you get for that, triple time!?"
Yes, triple of nothing :)
| 22 December 2003 |
Hello Bad Weather.
Nice and rainy last night. And I must say a big "thank you" to the nice citizen who called the SES out at 1am to an imaginary "huge" tree across a road.
They claimed the so called tree was extremely large, and a traffic hazard.
I went straight to the scene in my car, followed by Rescue: 1 (our truck), and met up with another unit member on the scene with the police. Shortly after Rescue: 2 turned up (the 4WD). And all were not happy to find they all got out of bed for nothing.
The police were expecially happy that they had to drive out to the middle of nowhere with lights and sirens. It looked cool to people passing by, red and blue flashing lights from all our vehicles, but not so cool that it was some fake/hoax of a callout.
We turned down some dirt road, and found a branch across part of it. One guy got out and pushed it off the road. If thats what they called us for, they could save everyone time, to just get out. And move it themselves.
In further addition to the posting, I have just returned from another couple of callouts.
First callout consisted of assisting some family in Crib Point with some tree that was gonna fall (they think) so we cut it up and pulled it over with the truck.
Some smart ass little 14-15 year old kids were around and didn't seem to get the message;
"Move your ass or it'll land on you!"
And of course, they had some punk smart ass attitude;
<Annoying Kid> yeahhh g'day mate, got the time?
<Me> 6:10.
<Annoying Kid> 6:10 ?!
<Me> thats what I said.
<Annoying Kid> thanks mate!
* Me rolls eyes.
* Annoying Kid starts to fiddle with stuff around the truck
<Me> get away from the truck.
<Annoying Kid> gee sorry MATE! just looking yanno!?
* Annoying Kid continues to fiddle.
<Me> did you hear what I just said? GET. AWAY. FROM. THE TRUCK
<Annoying Kid> yeah ok mate, ok, relax alright!?
Hmm.. I had a big urge to sucker punch the little shit.
Second callout was some stupid rich ass lady obsessed with her damn plants;
<Lady> ohh!! don't cut that up it'll hit my plants!!
Her plants aparantly costing about $1000 a piece.
After much arugment that we could not remove this tree from her powerline without damaging the plants it's resting on, or trampling her garden, we said she would have to call in a professional tree lopper to do it.
<Lady> but it'll be hard to get one around Christmas!
Yes.. all the tree's wait until it's Christmas before falling over. Idiot.
Anyway.. long story short, we all left her to her bitching, but will be happy for the day when the big pine tree in her front yard falls over and crushes those expensive plants, tennis court and pool in one go.
And that'll happen real soon too.
They claimed the so called tree was extremely large, and a traffic hazard.
I went straight to the scene in my car, followed by Rescue: 1 (our truck), and met up with another unit member on the scene with the police. Shortly after Rescue: 2 turned up (the 4WD). And all were not happy to find they all got out of bed for nothing.
The police were expecially happy that they had to drive out to the middle of nowhere with lights and sirens. It looked cool to people passing by, red and blue flashing lights from all our vehicles, but not so cool that it was some fake/hoax of a callout.
We turned down some dirt road, and found a branch across part of it. One guy got out and pushed it off the road. If thats what they called us for, they could save everyone time, to just get out. And move it themselves.
In further addition to the posting, I have just returned from another couple of callouts.
First callout consisted of assisting some family in Crib Point with some tree that was gonna fall (they think) so we cut it up and pulled it over with the truck.
Some smart ass little 14-15 year old kids were around and didn't seem to get the message;
"Move your ass or it'll land on you!"
And of course, they had some punk smart ass attitude;
<Annoying Kid> yeahhh g'day mate, got the time?
<Me> 6:10.
<Annoying Kid> 6:10 ?!
<Me> thats what I said.
<Annoying Kid> thanks mate!
* Me rolls eyes.
* Annoying Kid starts to fiddle with stuff around the truck
<Me> get away from the truck.
<Annoying Kid> gee sorry MATE! just looking yanno!?
* Annoying Kid continues to fiddle.
<Me> did you hear what I just said? GET. AWAY. FROM. THE TRUCK
<Annoying Kid> yeah ok mate, ok, relax alright!?
Hmm.. I had a big urge to sucker punch the little shit.
Second callout was some stupid rich ass lady obsessed with her damn plants;
<Lady> ohh!! don't cut that up it'll hit my plants!!
Her plants aparantly costing about $1000 a piece.
After much arugment that we could not remove this tree from her powerline without damaging the plants it's resting on, or trampling her garden, we said she would have to call in a professional tree lopper to do it.
<Lady> but it'll be hard to get one around Christmas!
Yes.. all the tree's wait until it's Christmas before falling over. Idiot.
Anyway.. long story short, we all left her to her bitching, but will be happy for the day when the big pine tree in her front yard falls over and crushes those expensive plants, tennis court and pool in one go.
And that'll happen real soon too.
| 14 December 2003 |
Another Sunday, and my first post.
Just another ordinary sunday at work, the old 8:00am till 3:00pm grind.
Lets see some pointless things about today.
• Some customer in liquor who was about 50-60 years old, yet it seemed like his first day on planet earth:
<Customer> ok whats this?
<Me> it's the eftpos machine
<Customer> oh I see, i've never seen one before thats all
<Me> yeah thats ok
* Customer pulls out a used eftpos card
<Customer> I want to pay with this
<Me> yeah.. ok, just put it in the machine
<Customer> ok ok sorry, i've never used these cards before
<Me> umm ok
<Customer> hey, what are those drinks behind you?
<Me> they're smaller versions of the drinks we have on the shelf
<Customer> are they free?
<Me> no.
<Customer> whats this here?
<Me> umm.. thats some ad for a competition
<Customer> oh I thourght it was something I could get for free
<Me> no, it's not.
<Customer> this machine is asking me to do something
<Me> what is it asking?
<Customer> to select an account
<Me> yeah, select either savings, cheque, or credit
<Customer> ..how?
And so on and so forth, he didn't seem to know what anything in the store was, and he wasn't drunk or anything, just a loser.
• And later that day, going past work there were some cops that had blocked off the main road to my mates place, seems there was some guy with a gun a couple of houses down from his place.
Funny how he gets absorbed by his internet life, didn't even notice there was a SOG unit down there as well as about 8 police cars and a couple of ambulances.
Lets see some pointless things about today.
• Some customer in liquor who was about 50-60 years old, yet it seemed like his first day on planet earth:
<Customer> ok whats this?
<Me> it's the eftpos machine
<Customer> oh I see, i've never seen one before thats all
<Me> yeah thats ok
* Customer pulls out a used eftpos card
<Customer> I want to pay with this
<Me> yeah.. ok, just put it in the machine
<Customer> ok ok sorry, i've never used these cards before
<Me> umm ok
<Customer> hey, what are those drinks behind you?
<Me> they're smaller versions of the drinks we have on the shelf
<Customer> are they free?
<Me> no.
<Customer> whats this here?
<Me> umm.. thats some ad for a competition
<Customer> oh I thourght it was something I could get for free
<Me> no, it's not.
<Customer> this machine is asking me to do something
<Me> what is it asking?
<Customer> to select an account
<Me> yeah, select either savings, cheque, or credit
<Customer> ..how?
And so on and so forth, he didn't seem to know what anything in the store was, and he wasn't drunk or anything, just a loser.
• And later that day, going past work there were some cops that had blocked off the main road to my mates place, seems there was some guy with a gun a couple of houses down from his place.
Funny how he gets absorbed by his internet life, didn't even notice there was a SOG unit down there as well as about 8 police cars and a couple of ambulances.
