The Joys of Being a Parky
I Started my summer job today and as per usual it was never plain sailing. Got up at 6am (wtf?) to allow pleanty of time to travel to work, I took a nice slow walk to catch the bus (brought back some memories of college). Got the bus and just as we arrived into town there was a funny smell, rather like TCP which was rather strange... then the driver told us to get off and he pulled the bus infront of the depot - good job really as some smoke started to appear from the ticket machine. Health Warning: Burning ink doesnt smell too good its not advisable to inhale.
After that was dealt with by the driver + mechanic i finally started to get back on track, Arriving at work a fashionable 5 minutes late. Good effort. Luckily everyone else was running late so it wasnt too drastic.
I Met some of the people i worked with last year so it was nice to see some familiar faces again, matt from the bouncy castles and vicky from kneeshaw. Also talked to Carly Scott a bit was nice to catch up with someone from the SMC and see how others were getting along. Shes changed quite alot, nice girl.
After the boring formalaties were finished about customer service etc we were finally told what our duties were gonna be, everyone else got given similar jobs to last year, pool attendents, surestart, bouncy castle roadshow etc... but it seems that this year im going to be an actual Ranger responsible for a whole park, keeping logs, ensuring saftey, taking complaints, helping customers etc omg responsibility!! Only minor problem is the shift pattern 3 days on and 3 days off 9am to 9pm its gonna be some looooooooong days. Anyway should be a good challenge im really looking forward to doing something instead of just being at home all the time, the park i will be working at is a fair distance from my house though which leads me on to........
CARS - Im guessing now, to save my lazy ass a 45 minute cycle to work and back each day the purchase of a car is going to be needed. After having a discussion/fashion debate with my dad it was decided that i should just get a cheap car for the time being (LADA need not apply) and try to kill off the first years insurance which is going to be around £800 or so regardless of the car i get. OUCH. I knew i should have rushed through pass plus. Ah well. Im gonna get Stung. Still the good old parents words of wisdom (using the nice as long as it gets from A>B line) kinda talked me out getting a nice car first as he is intent on thinking i cant actually drive and am going scratch it here and there, He has Little faith.
Also found out today that unfortunatly i will be TAXED yes thats right TAXED on the money i earn this summer because it is likely i will also be earning money as im gonna be taking a year out. This brings my wages down by - well i dunno how much yet but i can only imagine how much they are gonna take from £310 a week. All i can say is i expect to see some improvements in the NHS or Public Transport that can be justified by them taking all my money grrrrrrrr! Rant over.
Bed time now, another stupid Induction day tomorrow where we can go over more health and saftey procedures, how not to break your back picking up a chair, how to saftely operate a bouncy castle without suffocating kids and how not to turn your paddling pools into chlorine filled extermination tanks.
ah... The Joys of being a Parky
Dean.
After that was dealt with by the driver + mechanic i finally started to get back on track, Arriving at work a fashionable 5 minutes late. Good effort. Luckily everyone else was running late so it wasnt too drastic.
I Met some of the people i worked with last year so it was nice to see some familiar faces again, matt from the bouncy castles and vicky from kneeshaw. Also talked to Carly Scott a bit was nice to catch up with someone from the SMC and see how others were getting along. Shes changed quite alot, nice girl.
After the boring formalaties were finished about customer service etc we were finally told what our duties were gonna be, everyone else got given similar jobs to last year, pool attendents, surestart, bouncy castle roadshow etc... but it seems that this year im going to be an actual Ranger responsible for a whole park, keeping logs, ensuring saftey, taking complaints, helping customers etc omg responsibility!! Only minor problem is the shift pattern 3 days on and 3 days off 9am to 9pm its gonna be some looooooooong days. Anyway should be a good challenge im really looking forward to doing something instead of just being at home all the time, the park i will be working at is a fair distance from my house though which leads me on to........
CARS - Im guessing now, to save my lazy ass a 45 minute cycle to work and back each day the purchase of a car is going to be needed. After having a discussion/fashion debate with my dad it was decided that i should just get a cheap car for the time being (LADA need not apply) and try to kill off the first years insurance which is going to be around £800 or so regardless of the car i get. OUCH. I knew i should have rushed through pass plus. Ah well. Im gonna get Stung. Still the good old parents words of wisdom (using the nice as long as it gets from A>B line) kinda talked me out getting a nice car first as he is intent on thinking i cant actually drive and am going scratch it here and there, He has Little faith.
Also found out today that unfortunatly i will be TAXED yes thats right TAXED on the money i earn this summer because it is likely i will also be earning money as im gonna be taking a year out. This brings my wages down by - well i dunno how much yet but i can only imagine how much they are gonna take from £310 a week. All i can say is i expect to see some improvements in the NHS or Public Transport that can be justified by them taking all my money grrrrrrrr! Rant over.
Bed time now, another stupid Induction day tomorrow where we can go over more health and saftey procedures, how not to break your back picking up a chair, how to saftely operate a bouncy castle without suffocating kids and how not to turn your paddling pools into chlorine filled extermination tanks.
ah... The Joys of being a Parky
Dean.
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