believe it or not...

I am actually still alive =P

I am sorry, I have just been working heaps!
so, a work story is fitting I suppose....

today we had really bad weather- for the last few weeks it has been amazingly sunny, and today we had torrential rain!
and of course our outdoor slide was still running,
which runs from a high up stand about five metres of the ground
which means it is very open the elements ,
and one of our lifeguard, jack,
I don't really know him that well but he's a nice guy,
and well our shift leader ( my boss/ manager on deck if you like )
had accidentally skipped him in our rotations,

now there were so few people using the slide due to the appalling weather,
not to mention all we get is a thin little water proof coat,
( that really doesn't work that well )
and I know how cold it gets, and as such he'd got stuck up there for half an hour already.
 on most days we would have closed about four, but thanks too the amazing weather lately we close it much later,
and i felt really bad about him being stuck up there for so long, so i asked one of the other guards ( who is also a shift leader ) if i could go up and if nothing else swap places with him so he wasn't stuck up in the freezing cold for longer than he should have been

but got the classic "na, he'll be right" response.
i don't know why but it made me irritated, I know sometimes they get caught up and miss rotations, but to be stuck up there for so long, is not only unprofessional its was also not right as it was unsafe and unfair.
so, i signalled him a rotate, and told him just to swap positions.

then, when he came for a rotation half an hour later ( jack would have been up in pouring rain and a huge amount of wind for over an hour by now )
and found him( jack ) waiting down in the lower outdoor section
he came up and asked me what was up and why i'd swapped.
and ijust said,
"well, i know it's not my place and i'm still new here, but nevertheless ,
i just didn't think it was proffesional or fair on jack for him to be stuck up here in such foul weather for over and hour, especially when we shouldn't even have the slide open in this weather, so i thought the least i could do was relieve him for the last part or the rotation,"
and of course, i got a bit of a talking to for this, as i had gone against what he had said,
and of course to go directly against what a senior guard has said is hardly welcomed, of course he spoke to anne ( or current shift leader ) about him.
ten minutes later,
he came and apologised to me, and said that while i had gone against another's word, i had taken the initiative, jack shouldn't have been up there that long, and that was her fault for forgetting him, and that i had done the right thing.

people like her remind me that yes, there are always people who are good, and who care more on just thier position for what is right. i had a few moment like that today. very happy day :3

don't worry, i tell you more tomorrow =P

love ayrton,
missing you all muchly!

listening too : SHINee - Hello