Subject:
        LazyLegions
   Date:
        Thu, 30 Jul 1998 01:43:03 -0700

CHAOS!

Utter and complete Pandimonium...

*giggles*

I fucking loved it... the day FLEW!  (so did I fer that matter)  It's
been One Of Those Days where yer lookin forward ta break time... not so
you kin sit down and slug down java and puff a few, *laughs*  nawww, SO
YOU CAN FUCKING CATCH UP!!

Been tryin' ta get rid of fish eggs, er, um, Caviar... nobody wants the
stuff... and we're producing it... A Lot Of  It!  And hey, I'm the guy
that makes it All Go Away, ya know???  Soooo.... I've spent the past
couple days shoving my ugly mug into the office pesterin everybody in
there ta give me SOME kind of answer... other than "I'll git back to ya
on that.." Finally Jay down in Seattle got the idea that I wasn't gonna
let up on this one and Actually like, made some phone calls or
sumptin...

Ya see, Normally, in years past, we'd get Shipping Orders, you know,
INSTRUCTIONS as to what ta do with all the shit we produce, who to ship
it too, what type of container (van) they want it in, etc. etc, etc..

Not this year... I have yet to recieve a single even remotely
semi-official hunk of paper tellin me where ta stick it... zilch...

We started gittin Soki (salmon) a while back and I had no place ta stash
it and no instructions as ta what to DO with it, Soooo, I called in me
favorite type of van (an MOLU) and shipped Three vans and had started
numbers four and five when Jay calls me up and says use OOCL vans,
*sigh* Typical... He's the dude that coined the oxymoron 'REWORK'
*giggles*  (would you please Rework the van so it has this many  4 to 6
pound soki in it enstead of that many 4 to 6 pound soki?)

Ya sure, no problem, bub.  Except the size ya want me ta take out was
the VERY FUCKING FIRST THING I PUT THERE and is now burried behind
30,000 pounds of the other sizes *laughs*  sheesh, the things I do ta
earn a buck.

So he don't get back ta me yesterday, he don't get back ta me this
morning, finally this afternoon he gets back ta me,  I'm wonderin,
What's It Gonna Be, an OOCL? an MOLU? an NYK?...nope

A freekin EVERGREEN container!!   So I hook up with me drivers and clue
them in and right before dinner time (which is quittin time fer me
drivers) I get me EVERGREEN...

So me charming and talented young assitant Rob sets it up and sez it's
beepin and buzzin and doing funky shit... EVERGREENS are kinda funky,
they got three buttons ta do a gazillion functions, gotta press 'em in
the right order ta get it ta work... so I tell him not to worry we'll do
it after dinner...

So after din din I check it out... ya, it was buzzin all right, the
fucking thing was FRIED!  *sigh*  so I made some Very Polite Phone Calls
and got it swapped out fer Another one (which actually Worked, like I
said, I Like MOLU'S *giggles*) And finally got ta load out some eggs
starting at eight o'clock this night...

THAT is all just NORMAL fucked up chaos...

naww, the REAL chaos today was Me drivin, all fucking daylong...

Don't EVER git a job as a forklift driver, trust me on this one.

All the sujiko (fish eggs) that Judy made were Wrong and had to be
fixed, (just had ta restrap and restack the bloody things) and almost
all the caviar boxes needed lids...

Last thing I wanted was a bunch of bozo drivers on Big Old Gas forklifts
buzzin past me on my tiny little van dock sooooo, I dug all the eggs out
and fed 'em to the respective crews and they gave me back finished
pallets of the stuff which I stashed till the van was ready ta load,,,

No biggy Except Raul was also Glazing salmon at the time,,, and most of
the flavors of salmon I gotta stash too, only a few flavors can be
shipped out...

And every time I thought  was gittin ahead somethin else would show up
and plug the little bit of space I had just made...

I tell ya, if the fish house and glazers didn't knock off early tonight
like they did I'd still be there drivin around like a head with it's
chicken cut off!

So the fish is pickin up, the fridge is getting FULL, We didn't have
enough people ta run everything when there were 'no' fish... now people
are startin ta drop like flies, callin in sick, or worse, coming in ta
work sick, coughin and wheezin and what not... and Scott tells me
there's this outbreak of Legionares Disease on the island!!

Communicable Diseases in a closed community like this is less than
groovy...  Most of me comrades got some kinda bug and ain't feelin too
funky right now...

This is one of the few times I'm GLAD I work mostly ALONE.

oh well, it's just startin up folks.. the war...
it's late this year but it's here now... kinda...

Happy ta see that mike is joinin in the email fun, he's got a way cool
attitude.  Both tickled and sad tha' Scott got his new job down in
Washington... gonna miss 'im in a fucked up sort of way *poke*  He's
been way cool and helpfull to me this year... not sure who's gonna take
his place... he gave his two week notice today...

And yet another one bails out...

I better bail out me self or mornin will overtake me.

G'night all

Rest Hard.