They say bad things do happen in threes
I could have not had a crappier first day at work; it was like God was personally trying to screw me over.
So I had to be at the YMCA for my shift before 5:30, not P.M but A.M, as the crazy as I am I choose this by free will, but that’s not the bad part. So I figured why not make a good impression on Nancy, my boss by arriving early. After waking at 4:15, leaving the house before my dad, I bike to the Y and arrived there at 5:15. Note that it takes me not an hour to bike to the Y but that I have eat, shower, pack lunch, and such and such. Anyways I had to be there at 5:30 because the opening shift was responsible for open the pools and other duties as I was about to discover.
My first problem was the main doors were closed, locked. Desperate to see if there was any other way in, I jumped to the side at went through the handicap door which was open. The second set of doors was open and I made it in to discover my next set of problems. Security.
No one apparently beside appointed staff people are suppose to be in the building at that time so it looked like I was breaking in. I explained the situation and somehow convinced to the guy to give the keys to the pool. The crisis was averted for now.
Now the message on the machine said that all I had to do was turn on the lights end of story. So I do that and open up the locker rooms except here comes problem number two, the ladies locker room. As much the idea taunted me the idea of being caught getting in trouble made me decide that I could open up the door from the other side. With no luck I figured that maybe Nancy would come soon and help me with that situation, the main purpose for coming uber early. Apparently the women’s locker room has an alarm and go figure it goes off. Panicking I call the main office and the person there tells me that I need to stick this wrench into some green thing.
Now at this point people are coming in from the men locker room. Now panicking like things could be worse they do, Nancy is still not there, I'm all by myself and the first thing that I see, which is green is this round rubber ball. In reality I found out later it was a doorknob stopper. Not thinking at this point my senses are telling me just stick there. As I do the alarm stops and I think I finally did something right and all was going to go well. Wrong
Ten minutes later the alarm goes off again, now with more people there and the door which I thought was unlocked got stuck so somebody is pounding the door on the opposite end of the pool. Add that Nancy still hasn't arrived. I hurry to unlock the door again and try to stick the wrench into the green rubber doorstopper. It goes off again, I later find out it is timed, and I return to my post. Eventually Lindsay, the boss of my boss, comes and tells me the correct place to stick the wrench thing and tells me that I can go through the women’s locker room to unlock the door. So now I think things can only get better from here.
In about another thirty minutes the building has a power surge and the lights go off. It wasn't complete darkness as the windows provide enough light for the swimmers to avoid knocking into each other. As fate would have turning on the switches would do nothing. After another call to the main office, they send somebody down to confirm that the lights can't be turned on. After some mild swearing and a couple of prayers the light finally come back on and the rest of the day actually continues without any more big problems. Minor problems include the next lifeguard being late, a nice old lady who tells me after doing her exercises that she can’t swim. There were some perks. Lindsay was impressed by how early I came and told her aquatics class the story which gave me a nice “Hi”. I also know that I can enter the women’s locker room without penalty and everybody that works there is in someway connected to North. Apparently Mrs. Tuohy is a legend there.
So I had to be at the YMCA for my shift before 5:30, not P.M but A.M, as the crazy as I am I choose this by free will, but that’s not the bad part. So I figured why not make a good impression on Nancy, my boss by arriving early. After waking at 4:15, leaving the house before my dad, I bike to the Y and arrived there at 5:15. Note that it takes me not an hour to bike to the Y but that I have eat, shower, pack lunch, and such and such. Anyways I had to be there at 5:30 because the opening shift was responsible for open the pools and other duties as I was about to discover.
My first problem was the main doors were closed, locked. Desperate to see if there was any other way in, I jumped to the side at went through the handicap door which was open. The second set of doors was open and I made it in to discover my next set of problems. Security.
No one apparently beside appointed staff people are suppose to be in the building at that time so it looked like I was breaking in. I explained the situation and somehow convinced to the guy to give the keys to the pool. The crisis was averted for now.
Now the message on the machine said that all I had to do was turn on the lights end of story. So I do that and open up the locker rooms except here comes problem number two, the ladies locker room. As much the idea taunted me the idea of being caught getting in trouble made me decide that I could open up the door from the other side. With no luck I figured that maybe Nancy would come soon and help me with that situation, the main purpose for coming uber early. Apparently the women’s locker room has an alarm and go figure it goes off. Panicking I call the main office and the person there tells me that I need to stick this wrench into some green thing.
Now at this point people are coming in from the men locker room. Now panicking like things could be worse they do, Nancy is still not there, I'm all by myself and the first thing that I see, which is green is this round rubber ball. In reality I found out later it was a doorknob stopper. Not thinking at this point my senses are telling me just stick there. As I do the alarm stops and I think I finally did something right and all was going to go well. Wrong
Ten minutes later the alarm goes off again, now with more people there and the door which I thought was unlocked got stuck so somebody is pounding the door on the opposite end of the pool. Add that Nancy still hasn't arrived. I hurry to unlock the door again and try to stick the wrench into the green rubber doorstopper. It goes off again, I later find out it is timed, and I return to my post. Eventually Lindsay, the boss of my boss, comes and tells me the correct place to stick the wrench thing and tells me that I can go through the women’s locker room to unlock the door. So now I think things can only get better from here.
In about another thirty minutes the building has a power surge and the lights go off. It wasn't complete darkness as the windows provide enough light for the swimmers to avoid knocking into each other. As fate would have turning on the switches would do nothing. After another call to the main office, they send somebody down to confirm that the lights can't be turned on. After some mild swearing and a couple of prayers the light finally come back on and the rest of the day actually continues without any more big problems. Minor problems include the next lifeguard being late, a nice old lady who tells me after doing her exercises that she can’t swim. There were some perks. Lindsay was impressed by how early I came and told her aquatics class the story which gave me a nice “Hi”. I also know that I can enter the women’s locker room without penalty and everybody that works there is in someway connected to North. Apparently Mrs. Tuohy is a legend there.