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The Little Pleasures you get from your Job
Every once in a great while something happens at work that just makes you smile inwardly. It isn't usually something that makes the job a whole lot better than it normally is, it doesn't make you forget about the SCs, but it is a nice little two-minute distraction.
I'm a security guard at a golf resort. This golf resort is hosting a major tournament this week. Tiger Woods is here. But this has nothing to do with him.
For the tournament a bunch of trailers and tents and such had been set up in one of the lower parking lots. You had to go past me to get into this parking lot. Due to the theft of six laptops by people disguised as press workers(long story that I won't go into right now) I was told to stop everyone that tried to get on site and not let them through unless I had taken down their drivers license info and license plate number.
So throughout the night workers would show up every so often and there would be no problem. They knew about the laptops and understood the added precaution. Then this morning, at about 4:45 AM a silver SUV blows right past me without even slowing down. I make a note of it in my log and head off to investigate.
I walked down the sidewalk that led to the lot and could see the SUV. I walk up to it and find the driver gone. I notice a flashlight beam shining from inside the wall of a tent, so I walk up to it. Someone is inside moving stuff around.
I simply stand outside, waiting to see what the guy does. Then a light comes on inside and I see a man's silhouette undoing cords on the inside of the tent. He is undoing the entrance to the tent. So I move and stand less than a foot away from the closed flaps.
Sure enough the guys finishes the cords and flings open the flaps and looks outside. It takes a moment for him to register the six foot, 270lb bearded man standing inches away from him. When it finally clicks in his brain that there is a scary-looking person right in front of him, he yelps and jumps back several feet. It took a lot of willpower not to laugh out loud. But this was a middle-aged man dressed in the polo shirt and hat of the tournament. He was one of the food servers and had arrived early to make sure there was plenty of fresh breakfast and coffee for everyone. He even offered me some, but I declined as my shift was almost over and coffee would just keep me awake too long.
I apologized for starling him and asked him why he didn't stop when I signaled him at the entrance. He said he didn't see me and apologized. I took his info and walked back to my car, chuckling the entire way.
So what little things happen at your job that make you smile to yourself?
I'm a security guard at a golf resort. This golf resort is hosting a major tournament this week. Tiger Woods is here. But this has nothing to do with him.
For the tournament a bunch of trailers and tents and such had been set up in one of the lower parking lots. You had to go past me to get into this parking lot. Due to the theft of six laptops by people disguised as press workers(long story that I won't go into right now) I was told to stop everyone that tried to get on site and not let them through unless I had taken down their drivers license info and license plate number.
So throughout the night workers would show up every so often and there would be no problem. They knew about the laptops and understood the added precaution. Then this morning, at about 4:45 AM a silver SUV blows right past me without even slowing down. I make a note of it in my log and head off to investigate.
I walked down the sidewalk that led to the lot and could see the SUV. I walk up to it and find the driver gone. I notice a flashlight beam shining from inside the wall of a tent, so I walk up to it. Someone is inside moving stuff around.
I simply stand outside, waiting to see what the guy does. Then a light comes on inside and I see a man's silhouette undoing cords on the inside of the tent. He is undoing the entrance to the tent. So I move and stand less than a foot away from the closed flaps.
Sure enough the guys finishes the cords and flings open the flaps and looks outside. It takes a moment for him to register the six foot, 270lb bearded man standing inches away from him. When it finally clicks in his brain that there is a scary-looking person right in front of him, he yelps and jumps back several feet. It took a lot of willpower not to laugh out loud. But this was a middle-aged man dressed in the polo shirt and hat of the tournament. He was one of the food servers and had arrived early to make sure there was plenty of fresh breakfast and coffee for everyone. He even offered me some, but I declined as my shift was almost over and coffee would just keep me awake too long.
I apologized for starling him and asked him why he didn't stop when I signaled him at the entrance. He said he didn't see me and apologized. I took his info and walked back to my car, chuckling the entire way.
So what little things happen at your job that make you smile to yourself?
I AM the evil bastard!
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