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Dirrrrrrrrty
Aug. 17th, 2005 07:13 pmWork today was... interesting. It was RIGHT next to the subsidized housing complex I lived in both when I was young, and when I was 18-20. It was interesting being back in the old neighbourhood, even if I didn't get to gawk much.
With On Side Restoration again. This time it was for fire. A house was gutted by fire, and all the contents were written off. We were the first ones on the site... our job order said to trash all the remaining contents - homeowner had salvaged everything they could already.
The fire damage was extensive, and TONS got trashed by the fire. The two living rooms (up and downstairs) had (roughly) 52 inch widescreen projection TVs. Every other bedroom had a TV... 6 more in total. All trash. Sofas, lovely handcrafted wood furniture, candles (they had TONS of candles), clocks, movies, mirrors, computers, clothing, you name it. All garbage.
So... I show up at 8 as told. Boss man shows up at 8:30. After getting lost and driving past the house 3 times. Admittedly, the numbers on the house were very small and hard to see.
Before we could work, we needed a garbage bin and/or dump truck to put shit in. We called for both, and got them at the same time.
2 hours later.
So yeah, I got to sit on my ass for 2 hours reading and get paid for it!
Then we got to work. Hauled out all manner of stuff. Bossman worked upstairs, and threw stuff out the window into the bin that was in the driveway. Not too bad for him. Abel and I got to cart stuff out to the dump truck downstairs instead. We made good progress and got about a third or so of the shit out of the downstairs. Considering we booked off at 3, we only actually did 4 hours of actual work (and got paid for 7, woo!) so I was pleased with our progress.
Asked back for tomorrow to finish up, will be going. Yay work.
Work was FILTHY though. Soot on everything... and it got THROUGH my gloves. Despite wearing them all day, my hands were black as night by the end of it. Arms were worse though. Showered when I got home... it took FIVE scrub-n-rinse jobs before the water stopped washing away gray. Yeech.
All in all, a pretty good day. I'm hungry now.
With On Side Restoration again. This time it was for fire. A house was gutted by fire, and all the contents were written off. We were the first ones on the site... our job order said to trash all the remaining contents - homeowner had salvaged everything they could already.
The fire damage was extensive, and TONS got trashed by the fire. The two living rooms (up and downstairs) had (roughly) 52 inch widescreen projection TVs. Every other bedroom had a TV... 6 more in total. All trash. Sofas, lovely handcrafted wood furniture, candles (they had TONS of candles), clocks, movies, mirrors, computers, clothing, you name it. All garbage.
So... I show up at 8 as told. Boss man shows up at 8:30. After getting lost and driving past the house 3 times. Admittedly, the numbers on the house were very small and hard to see.
Before we could work, we needed a garbage bin and/or dump truck to put shit in. We called for both, and got them at the same time.
2 hours later.
So yeah, I got to sit on my ass for 2 hours reading and get paid for it!
Then we got to work. Hauled out all manner of stuff. Bossman worked upstairs, and threw stuff out the window into the bin that was in the driveway. Not too bad for him. Abel and I got to cart stuff out to the dump truck downstairs instead. We made good progress and got about a third or so of the shit out of the downstairs. Considering we booked off at 3, we only actually did 4 hours of actual work (and got paid for 7, woo!) so I was pleased with our progress.
Asked back for tomorrow to finish up, will be going. Yay work.
Work was FILTHY though. Soot on everything... and it got THROUGH my gloves. Despite wearing them all day, my hands were black as night by the end of it. Arms were worse though. Showered when I got home... it took FIVE scrub-n-rinse jobs before the water stopped washing away gray. Yeech.
All in all, a pretty good day. I'm hungry now.
