devil that you know...

I can't believe Radio actually said those words to me. I get to camp, look at the flight manifest and notice a name of an employee that we had working for us about a year ago. The guy is in his late 60's, native and has either the memory span of a goldfish (cause he often forgets to do the duties that he has been told to do) or the energy level of a sloth (cause he often doesn't do the duties that he has been told to do). He was dismissed from the company awhile ago cause he got drunk on his way out of camp and held a party in his company paid for hotel room and trashed the place. I remember hearing talk about booze spilt, cigarette burns in the carpet and blood everywhere. When confronted about his inappropriate behaviour he broke out in anger and quit. Now he is back and on nights doing about 1/4 of the job that a normal night shift janitor has to do. So, that means now we have 3 night shift janitors (all northerners) to do the job that one night janitor used to do. When I looked at Radio in disbelief in this little thing all he could say was 'it is better to hire the devil you know than the devil you don't know'.

Luckily I was smart enough to check my southern common sense at the airport before getting on the plane and had my camp sense in my head so that made perfect sense. After all my southern common sense in the work place would have screamed "better to hire the person that does the job right instead of the lazy butt head that you know cant do the job". It would have made connections of the fact that the logic he was spouting was like going grocery shopping and saying "I remember buying this cheese and it made me throw up, gave me horrible stomach cramps and I had the runs for a week afterwards cause of it....but, better to eat this cheese and know what is gonna happen than buy a different brand that I might have no problem with". However, since I had my camp sense in my head I nodded and went "great plan chief" and walked away.

I will try to make this rant shorter than the rest. Wont go into too much detail but for some reason they have decided to cut back on vegetable buying, or they know that the new 1st cook loves to cook with vegetables and does so on a regular basis but instead of buying more vegetables to meet his needs of cooking they buy the same amount and hope that he sees that he isn't getting all the vegetables he cooks with and will stop cooking with them all the time. Which means I have no got the challenge of putting out a leaf salad for lunch AND dinner with only 5 heads of iceberg lettuce (4 of which I already used to the two tossed today) and 5 bags of spinach (of which I used a bag and a half already bulking up the tossed due to small amounts of iceberg available) and no romaine. I also still have to put out 2 vegetables at dinner and make 3 mixed salads for supper. I went to the freezer thinking that they would have some frozen veggies to help in this situation. All I found was 2 bags of frozen peas and two boxes of frozen corn. So at least that means I will be safe for Sunday (frozen peas and carrot cubes for one) and Friday (corn on the cob for one). Ahh, talk about the thrill of the job.

Since it is late and I should be going to bed I will add one more funny thing and will continue with my head shaking rants next day. I tried to open up my comics pages to get some funny relief from the day. I was disappointed to note that all 25 websites for my comics were blocked by the netnanny. The reason was the classification of the websites. Some were labelled as 'advertisements' some were labelled as 'shopping' but the best was that a couple were labelled "humour/jokes". Apparently in camp you can block a site because it is considered amusing and funny. This I find to be the most amusing and funny considering the stupidity of the decisions made around this place by some of the higher ups. Well, maybe not stupid since I am sure, or at least hope, that the decisions they make have favorable outcomes in the area that they are made eve though they are considered ass backwards at the lower levels where we sit. Even better was that I opened up the 'to read' folder that I have in my favorites which bring up news pages, flickr accounts, letters to the editor of the Edmonton Sun, the Edmonton sunshine girl and the Mrs' xanga webpage. Seems the sunshine girl came through no problem (though not the best one they have had) but my wife's xanga blog page has been banned cause of 'adult/mature material'. A girl posing half naked in underwear and a bra is acceptable but my wife blogging about vintage cars and lightening storms are adult/mature subject matter? like I said, I hope that these decisions have favorable outcomes higher up cause at my level they are just plain stupid.