the last day of work wasn't anything special: blue taped, walked houses, blue taped some more, watched a guy raise one of our gas meters. i was expeting freddy to find me and i saw his truck but i didn't see him, i think i would've liked to say bye. and i guess its only fitting at someone hit or ask about me on my last day, make go full circle. ( Read more... )

every 3rd and 4th monday of the month construction has meetings in the morning and i usually hold down the fort on site and they com back around noon, so i'm by myself all morning. This morning i had to make sure these guys cleaned some houses and i had to look out for the mechanical inspector. both tasks were done so went down to the trailer to ( Read more... )

Work has been pretty good, Dee is closing his first house tomorrow and I think its going very well, most everybody has done their job, and the homeowners are the ones that come everyday and they are very happy so that is good. I feel more comfortable around Freddy and confident in saying no to his countless date requests, though i was stupid and ( Read more... )

so yesterday my boss got fired, about 10am and jeff the senior builder from NV who has a few buildings on the same site as us, comes to our construction trailer to use the fax and tells us he got laid off 2 hours ago. sucks. jeff was a good guy-very happy go lucky, always nice to us sharing the site, helped us play jokes on dave and not hard on ( Read more... )

i don't know what it is but the hispanic workers really like me. this morning at work i got there about 8:15 and was with Dee later at about 10:30 and lets me know that 4 guys have already asked about me in those 2 hours. yeah, i really felt like they were all watching me especially more today. then i'm driving home and i past a landscaping ( Read more... )

i hate the humidity and heat and i hate that my job involves me being out in the humidity and heat, though actually the past couple of days i didn't spent tooo much time outside ( Read more... )

First day of my internship but it was just an orientation involving paperwork, harassment, policy, and company stuff and mostly online, so i was sitting all day staring at a computer reading and listening to boring stuff. the last thing i had to do was about the company's history and values and how great they are, it was so long and repetative, ( Read more... )

YESSSSS!

I'm not gonna be a bum this summer!  I got that internship I interviewed for over a month ago, I totally didn't think I got it cause it had been so long and when they don't tell you that usually means you didn't get the job.  Man I'm so happy I don't have to worry about finding a job anymore.  I'll be working in Potomac Falls,VA and ( Read more... )