Rosa Needs to Go
Thursday, April 20th, 2023 11:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snoozefestaudio72F out there, with thunder and rain as I write, this morning. The puppy is here by my side in the back room.
It looked pretty nice when we first went out there, but the sky darkened quickly, and the first rumble sent all of us back in the house.
This is good for the grass seed mat, of course.
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12:00AM
Before I left, I measured down in the basement and I do have more than enough copper to do the hose hook up, and I have all the fittings and valves I need too. Everything but the hose bib itself.
I could easily get it done in a few hours.
The latest forecast has both Saturday and Sunday being around 50F, which is great for raking and mowing.
But some rain is expected on Saturday, whereas, starting Sunday... no rain for a week.
Therefore, the best plan is to get the hose hook up installed, and the reel cart together on Saturday.
I can take a drive to Home Depot to get the hose bib, and pick up my fireplace mortar and slate chips while I'm at it!
Then I come home, crack a beer, and start soldering copper together down in the shop!
After the hose hook up is installed and working, I'll throw the reel cart together, and get the show on the road out in the back yard.
Then, if there's still light out there, I'll finish dry stacking my fire pit, and cut down some little tree stumps around the yard that are in the way of the mower.
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Sunday, then, will be about raking up sticks, mowing the lawn, and watering the grass seed.
And if there's time on Sunday... maybe I'll wash those legacy bricks with my new hose too!
Then restack the firepit, with capstones, and take some pics!
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Then the following weekend, weather permitting, I'll actually get the firepit embedded in the ground, and mortared together!
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Kinda sucks being back to two day weekends now until... Memorial Day, at the end of May!.. but this is how it is when you're starting at a new job and don't have a lot of PTO built up!
As for work though, I'm to the point where I've really got the routine down. I can get every little thing done in 15,000 steps, with 45 minutes to spare, and my feet don't bother me at all!
My only complaint now, is Rosa!
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BITCHING ABOUT ROSA
I've resisted bitching about her here, but tonight I'm venting!
So... the Cloud team is Jeremy on days full time, Me on nights full time, and Rosa, to cover what we call, the four-hour area.
It's the area I was doing when I started at Cloud last February.
Okay, so the 4-hour position is supposed to be 3-7PM.
So, in a perfect world... Rosa and I would both show up at 3PM, and work together for four hours as the building empties out.
Then, she'd leave, right when I take lunch, and I'd have the building to myself for the rest of the night!
Why is that nice? Because then I can go out in my car and smoke, and there's nobody to rat me out!
And... if I'm done with everything early... I can go kick back in the office and play, Word Trip... or watch TikTok.
--<>--
It's just way more relaxed when you work alone, and that's one of the big perks of working second shift!
But from the word go, Rosa couldn't do 3PM! Waaay too early! She can't get there until 6:30PM!
And that SUCKS, because it means she's there until 10:30!.. giving me only one hour alone in the building before I go!
Now, that would be fine if she was either cool... or predictable! But she is neither!
She's only about 22, but she's a know-it-all snot, who acts like she's my boss...
Yet she's also this total wild card who never shows up on time, has no discernable routine, and constantly pops up in places inside, and outside, she has no business being!
Rosa is NEVER there at 6:30! It ranges from 6:40, to 6:55.
And since I never know when she actually DID clock in today... I have to play the cat and mouse game until 10:55 every night... even if she's already been gone for fifteen minutes!
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It gets better!
So... the four-hour person is supposed to bring in all the traffic cones every afternoon, and also the flag.
But the Principal wants those cones in by 4PM! And since Rosa doesn't show until (theoretically) 6:30, I have to bring in all the cones.
That's fine. I'm a man. But I did insist that no... Rosa still needs to get that stupid flag!
So, I'm doing a big, annoying part of her job... with those fucking cones every day, in freezing cold and sweaty heat... way out in the parking lot, lugging a flatbed around and dragging it back inside.
But when does she get the stupid flag right outside the front door? At 6:30 when the sun is still up, and people are around?.. first thing, to get it out of the way?
No! She just gets it totally at RANDOM! But it's ALWAYS way after dark!
And for her to get this flag she has to walk through the heart of my area... which means... she gets to check up on me!
Am I where I'm supposed to be? Am I outside in my car?.. smoking!?
She opens doors I've closed and leaves them open. She turns on lights I've turned off and leaves them on!
--<>--
Even without the flag excuse, she goes upstairs all the time... which is my area, and one that's all done by 6:30PM, well before she clocks in!
She has no business up there, but I see her all the time coming off the elevator, or out of the stairwells from up there.
She leaves doors open up there too, that I've already closed.
WHY?
--<>--
There was an electrical contractor working up there late one night, and I was directly under him in the LMC around 9PM, when I suddenly heard a TON of banging from the ceiling!
He hadn't been that loud all night! But ten minutes later, both he, and Rosa, appeared at the same time downstairs... smiling... a little confused... with him scrambling to go home while she went to get her stupid flag.
I DO think she fucked him up there!
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But she's married!
She's got a douchebag husband... who I KNOW is a douchebag, because one night he came to pick her up... half an hour early... and just sat there by the dumpsters with his engine idling... kicking back in the car with is feet out the window!
The car... their shit car with no muffler!
It's the only way I can tell for sure she's clocked out and leaving, is if I hear that loud ass car drive away.
But sometimes she gets dropped off and picked up so... you just NEVER KNOW FOR SURE!
And we'll get back to that car in a second but I just wanted to add that on top of all this other bullshit, she constantly forgets her badge or her keys or both!
And then I get a call from Chantele, our mangager, asking me to drop everything and let her in the building!
--<>--
Okay, so why am I dumping all this on you tonight?
Because Rosa finally pulled the ultimate stunt of calling in AT 6:30, to say her car had broken down!
Like... a weird guy named Terry showed up around 4:30 saying Chantele has sent him to help Rosa with her area?
I asked him what was up with Rosa, but he was just as in the dark as I was.
Terry was instructed to vacuum all Rosas classrooms, and then go.
Then, two hours later, I got a call from Chantele, saying Rosa's car had broken down, and I needed to do her bathrooms!
Could I stay late?
I told Chantele I'd take care of it.
But I had no intention of staying late!
As I said in the opening, I'm to the point where I usually have almost an hour to spare, and my feet are doing fine, so... I just busted ass after lunch getting all my shit done, plus Rosas shit, before quitting time.
I'm not saying it was horrible, or exhausting... but... it was still a pain in the ass!
--<>--
Rosa and I both started in our current positions about eight weeks ago.
And she's only gotten sketchier every week!
She's just some idiot, who married a douchebag on an impulse one day, and now they share a crappy car together with no muffler!
She shows up whenever the fuck she feels like it... with her badge if she can remember it... and then wanders around the building just fucking around... or fucking the odd electrician she happens to find!
But she's also got this attitude like she knows better, and works harder than everybody, and she's nosey!.. trying to keep tabs on me!
Fuck you, Rosa! You're the four-hour! Get here at three!.. do your fucking area!.. and go the fuck home!
--<>--
As for tonight... with Terry coming in at 4:30 to, "help," Rosa... but then, two hours later... no Rosa?
What was that about?
I imagine Rosa calling and saying, "Hey! I can't make it until 8:30 tonight! But I can stay until 12:30!"
And then Chantele said, "No, if you come at 8:30, you still have to go at 10:30, so I will send Terry to help you!"
Then Rosa though about it for two hours and thought, Awh, fuck it! I'm not going in at all then! and called back with a bullshit car excuse.
So... what was the real reason?
God only knows!.. she got too high?... she wants to plant a bomb, or fuck somebody in the school after I'm gone?... or something else that neither of us can imagine.
It doesn't matter!
What matters is... you're a fucking adult Rosa! Clock the fuck in on time, and remember your badge and keys!
Get the fucking flag first thing, then do you stupid four-hour drill and get the fuck out!
Leave the real janitor alone!.. Don't fuck the electrician!..
And don't half-way call off, the day of... and bail two hours later!
What the fuck are you doing?
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It looked pretty nice when we first went out there, but the sky darkened quickly, and the first rumble sent all of us back in the house.
This is good for the grass seed mat, of course.
Before I left, I measured down in the basement and I do have more than enough copper to do the hose hook up, and I have all the fittings and valves I need too. Everything but the hose bib itself.
I could easily get it done in a few hours.
The latest forecast has both Saturday and Sunday being around 50F, which is great for raking and mowing.
But some rain is expected on Saturday, whereas, starting Sunday... no rain for a week.
Therefore, the best plan is to get the hose hook up installed, and the reel cart together on Saturday.
I can take a drive to Home Depot to get the hose bib, and pick up my fireplace mortar and slate chips while I'm at it!
Then I come home, crack a beer, and start soldering copper together down in the shop!
After the hose hook up is installed and working, I'll throw the reel cart together, and get the show on the road out in the back yard.
Then, if there's still light out there, I'll finish dry stacking my fire pit, and cut down some little tree stumps around the yard that are in the way of the mower.
Sunday, then, will be about raking up sticks, mowing the lawn, and watering the grass seed.
And if there's time on Sunday... maybe I'll wash those legacy bricks with my new hose too!
Then restack the firepit, with capstones, and take some pics!
Then the following weekend, weather permitting, I'll actually get the firepit embedded in the ground, and mortared together!
Kinda sucks being back to two day weekends now until... Memorial Day, at the end of May!.. but this is how it is when you're starting at a new job and don't have a lot of PTO built up!
As for work though, I'm to the point where I've really got the routine down. I can get every little thing done in 15,000 steps, with 45 minutes to spare, and my feet don't bother me at all!
My only complaint now, is Rosa!
I've resisted bitching about her here, but tonight I'm venting!
So... the Cloud team is Jeremy on days full time, Me on nights full time, and Rosa, to cover what we call, the four-hour area.
It's the area I was doing when I started at Cloud last February.
Okay, so the 4-hour position is supposed to be 3-7PM.
So, in a perfect world... Rosa and I would both show up at 3PM, and work together for four hours as the building empties out.
Then, she'd leave, right when I take lunch, and I'd have the building to myself for the rest of the night!
Why is that nice? Because then I can go out in my car and smoke, and there's nobody to rat me out!
And... if I'm done with everything early... I can go kick back in the office and play, Word Trip... or watch TikTok.
It's just way more relaxed when you work alone, and that's one of the big perks of working second shift!
But from the word go, Rosa couldn't do 3PM! Waaay too early! She can't get there until 6:30PM!
And that SUCKS, because it means she's there until 10:30!.. giving me only one hour alone in the building before I go!
Now, that would be fine if she was either cool... or predictable! But she is neither!
She's only about 22, but she's a know-it-all snot, who acts like she's my boss...
Yet she's also this total wild card who never shows up on time, has no discernable routine, and constantly pops up in places inside, and outside, she has no business being!
Rosa is NEVER there at 6:30! It ranges from 6:40, to 6:55.
And since I never know when she actually DID clock in today... I have to play the cat and mouse game until 10:55 every night... even if she's already been gone for fifteen minutes!
It gets better!
So... the four-hour person is supposed to bring in all the traffic cones every afternoon, and also the flag.
But the Principal wants those cones in by 4PM! And since Rosa doesn't show until (theoretically) 6:30, I have to bring in all the cones.
That's fine. I'm a man. But I did insist that no... Rosa still needs to get that stupid flag!
So, I'm doing a big, annoying part of her job... with those fucking cones every day, in freezing cold and sweaty heat... way out in the parking lot, lugging a flatbed around and dragging it back inside.
But when does she get the stupid flag right outside the front door? At 6:30 when the sun is still up, and people are around?.. first thing, to get it out of the way?
No! She just gets it totally at RANDOM! But it's ALWAYS way after dark!
And for her to get this flag she has to walk through the heart of my area... which means... she gets to check up on me!
Am I where I'm supposed to be? Am I outside in my car?.. smoking!?
She opens doors I've closed and leaves them open. She turns on lights I've turned off and leaves them on!
Even without the flag excuse, she goes upstairs all the time... which is my area, and one that's all done by 6:30PM, well before she clocks in!
She has no business up there, but I see her all the time coming off the elevator, or out of the stairwells from up there.
She leaves doors open up there too, that I've already closed.
WHY?
There was an electrical contractor working up there late one night, and I was directly under him in the LMC around 9PM, when I suddenly heard a TON of banging from the ceiling!
He hadn't been that loud all night! But ten minutes later, both he, and Rosa, appeared at the same time downstairs... smiling... a little confused... with him scrambling to go home while she went to get her stupid flag.
I DO think she fucked him up there!
But she's married!
She's got a douchebag husband... who I KNOW is a douchebag, because one night he came to pick her up... half an hour early... and just sat there by the dumpsters with his engine idling... kicking back in the car with is feet out the window!
The car... their shit car with no muffler!
It's the only way I can tell for sure she's clocked out and leaving, is if I hear that loud ass car drive away.
But sometimes she gets dropped off and picked up so... you just NEVER KNOW FOR SURE!
And we'll get back to that car in a second but I just wanted to add that on top of all this other bullshit, she constantly forgets her badge or her keys or both!
And then I get a call from Chantele, our mangager, asking me to drop everything and let her in the building!
Okay, so why am I dumping all this on you tonight?
Because Rosa finally pulled the ultimate stunt of calling in AT 6:30, to say her car had broken down!
Like... a weird guy named Terry showed up around 4:30 saying Chantele has sent him to help Rosa with her area?
I asked him what was up with Rosa, but he was just as in the dark as I was.
Terry was instructed to vacuum all Rosas classrooms, and then go.
Then, two hours later, I got a call from Chantele, saying Rosa's car had broken down, and I needed to do her bathrooms!
Could I stay late?
I told Chantele I'd take care of it.
But I had no intention of staying late!
As I said in the opening, I'm to the point where I usually have almost an hour to spare, and my feet are doing fine, so... I just busted ass after lunch getting all my shit done, plus Rosas shit, before quitting time.
I'm not saying it was horrible, or exhausting... but... it was still a pain in the ass!
Rosa and I both started in our current positions about eight weeks ago.
And she's only gotten sketchier every week!
She's just some idiot, who married a douchebag on an impulse one day, and now they share a crappy car together with no muffler!
She shows up whenever the fuck she feels like it... with her badge if she can remember it... and then wanders around the building just fucking around... or fucking the odd electrician she happens to find!
But she's also got this attitude like she knows better, and works harder than everybody, and she's nosey!.. trying to keep tabs on me!
Fuck you, Rosa! You're the four-hour! Get here at three!.. do your fucking area!.. and go the fuck home!
As for tonight... with Terry coming in at 4:30 to, "help," Rosa... but then, two hours later... no Rosa?
What was that about?
I imagine Rosa calling and saying, "Hey! I can't make it until 8:30 tonight! But I can stay until 12:30!"
And then Chantele said, "No, if you come at 8:30, you still have to go at 10:30, so I will send Terry to help you!"
Then Rosa though about it for two hours and thought, Awh, fuck it! I'm not going in at all then! and called back with a bullshit car excuse.
So... what was the real reason?
God only knows!.. she got too high?... she wants to plant a bomb, or fuck somebody in the school after I'm gone?... or something else that neither of us can imagine.
It doesn't matter!
What matters is... you're a fucking adult Rosa! Clock the fuck in on time, and remember your badge and keys!
Get the fucking flag first thing, then do you stupid four-hour drill and get the fuck out!
Leave the real janitor alone!.. Don't fuck the electrician!..
And don't half-way call off, the day of... and bail two hours later!
What the fuck are you doing?
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