For all of you who are familiar with
the Daily Dose of Funny (DDOF), here is the first one of the summer. And for
those of you unfamiliar with the DDOF, well, Welcome.
After 9 months of absence I returned to the summer camp to work in Accommodations. As you can imagine I was incredibly excited to spend my summer cleaning cabins, tents, and teepees. Seriously, I had to restrain my enthusiasm, there are enough infectious diseases going around. Can you imagine the mix of swine flu with pure excitement? That's got to be fatal. In any case, with the way the job market is I was glad to have a job at all, especially a job I asked for.
My first day of work I was completely unsurprised to discover that most things were pretty much the same, even though the camp had undergone a marketing makeover and there are now gigantic wooden bears holding directional circular signs. During the day shift the radio still squawks with supervisor chatter like a very uncomfortable cockatoo. The vacuums, though there are more brand new ones, still each have their own quirky attitudes about cleaning. And campers have not suddenly become any cleaner. Ah, job sweet job, there is no place like work.
The camp marketing makeover included a revamp of all department uniform wardrobe. I showed up for the first day and was immediately wisked into a side office because I was wearing a shirt and a nametag bearing the old logo. I was quickly handed three new shirts (two of a medium tan and one a shade darker) and a carved wooden name badge. All I needed were some hefty boots and a utility belt and I could be Forest Ranger Jenna.
The thing that really cracked me up is the third shirt that is a shade darker then the other two. Seriously? The company uniform manager went to the screenprinter and thought, "Let's have two different colors of shirts.....ummmm....Tan #1 and ........Tan#1.5, for some variety, we dont' want to get too crazy." Cool, so now Accommodations workers who are supposed to be unseen and unheard as we clean cabins and such, really are, as we now blend in with the foliage around us. Maybe we've actually been given the super power of invisibility! Though, I'm pretty sure
After 9 months of absence I returned to the summer camp to work in Accommodations. As you can imagine I was incredibly excited to spend my summer cleaning cabins, tents, and teepees. Seriously, I had to restrain my enthusiasm, there are enough infectious diseases going around. Can you imagine the mix of swine flu with pure excitement? That's got to be fatal. In any case, with the way the job market is I was glad to have a job at all, especially a job I asked for.
My first day of work I was completely unsurprised to discover that most things were pretty much the same, even though the camp had undergone a marketing makeover and there are now gigantic wooden bears holding directional circular signs. During the day shift the radio still squawks with supervisor chatter like a very uncomfortable cockatoo. The vacuums, though there are more brand new ones, still each have their own quirky attitudes about cleaning. And campers have not suddenly become any cleaner. Ah, job sweet job, there is no place like work.
The camp marketing makeover included a revamp of all department uniform wardrobe. I showed up for the first day and was immediately wisked into a side office because I was wearing a shirt and a nametag bearing the old logo. I was quickly handed three new shirts (two of a medium tan and one a shade darker) and a carved wooden name badge. All I needed were some hefty boots and a utility belt and I could be Forest Ranger Jenna.
The thing that really cracked me up is the third shirt that is a shade darker then the other two. Seriously? The company uniform manager went to the screenprinter and thought, "Let's have two different colors of shirts.....ummmm....Tan #1 and ........Tan#1.5, for some variety, we dont' want to get too crazy." Cool, so now Accommodations workers who are supposed to be unseen and unheard as we clean cabins and such, really are, as we now blend in with the foliage around us. Maybe we've actually been given the super power of invisibility! Though, I'm pretty sure
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