Chers Mate!

Yes I have mentioned on my blog before about the first time I got fired... It was about six years ago, I was nineteen, in the UK...

I had an opportunity to go there and ofcourse took it with both hands, people were flocking to the UK back then as if it was the "Promised Land" where you just get there and amazing shit just randomly starts happening! Is that what happened for me... Not exactly... But I don't regret it, it was very educational. I was there for six months and it was like taking one of those short courses that just give you a touch of the subject matter in question to prepare you for the diploma. Those six months I spent in the UK were like a short course of life! Would I go back? There was a time in my life when I would say absolutely not! But now, I've changed my mind... if I had a decent opportunity to go there, I would... It definitely isn't my first choice of places to move to, but if I saw something worth my while that I could do there, I absolutely would!

But back to the time when I broke my UK cherry... I was fucking excited, my first job was at a coffee shop. I remember going for the interview, the manageress was a South African chicky, she had one look at my CV and looked up at me in amazement... I thought to myself, I would be amazed too if I saw a guy that young with so many years of Fruit & Veg work already under his belt! "Are you nineteen?" she asked. "Yes." I replied. Turns out she was fucking amazed about how youthful I WAS as opposed to how youthful I LOOKED! I got the job. Fuck Yeah!

Cleaning toilets, mopping floors, clearing tables... Were all part of the job! I even had a "job title" to disguise the fact that I wasn't at the bottom of the ladder, but actually putting it up STILL! I was officially a "Table Cleaner"! A slight memory lapse with potential to break bones was what cost me my job... My career as a "Table Cleaner" came to a rather abrupt end and became part of history just days after I made the mistake of mopping the floor without putting up the "CAUTION" signs! It SLIPPED my mind that even though people could see I was mopping, they might not know that wet floors can cause them to fall on their asses if I don't let them read it for themselves!

In walks my manageress and slips! She didn't fall on her ass but she did lose her balance for enough time to come to the conclusion that I was not the right dude for the job... After reading me the riot act, days later she had apparently found someone with "more experience" and let me go!

I hope I don't ever get fired again but if I ever do, I hope it's for something a little more serious like arriving drunk or something. Getting fired for not putting up a CAUTION: WET FLOOR sign is just FUCKING STRANGE...

Stay Tuned. Ciao! :-)