The New & Unproved Work/Job/Career Thread

[spike]

Doug is a retired professional baseball player.

[dad]

andy.

[washing machine]

So I just wrapped up five weeks of training in both BOH and FOH for the AGM position at my new restaurant. My position is at a location other than where I trained, so I only know my GM, executive chef and team through email and Zoom so far.

Friday is my first official scheduled day in the new role at that location.

Today me and my whole family tested positive for Covid, after dodging it for over two years.

Just brilliant timing, really. The situation deserves such a golf clap.

[Norah]

hang in their reid

[washing machine]

Hey thanks norris

[tree_]

Thare*

[dad]

sorry, Reid.

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[tree_]

Sorry Reid. Hang in there

[LetMeSleep]

Look on the bright side, you all got it at once. Hope all goes well for you guys.

[BurtReynolds]

I’ve never seen Bob’s Burgers but I loved that

It has strong trag vibes

[BurtReynolds]

Also I hope everyone feels better and doesn't die.

[spike]

Just go to work like Bammer would, Reid.

[washing machine]

Just go to work like Bammer would, Reid.

If I'm being honest, the thought crossed my mind to fake a negative home test, but I'm working hard on my sense of integrity these days.

At least I'm calling in sick before I start rather than getting into it for a week or two then disappearing for a spell.

[dad]

Just go to work like Bammer would, Reid.

If I'm being honest, the thought crossed my mind to fake a negative home test, but I'm working hard on my sense of integrity these days.

At least I'm calling in sick before I start rather than getting into it for a week or two then disappearing for a spell.

integrity first is a good rule of thumb.

[The Argonaut]

Treasure this time with your family

[bart]

Was the restaurant good about it?

[washing machine]

Yeah, but I think we're all ready for me to get there and start tackling projects.

[wease]

Have to start off the day calling someone and firing them. They’ve not even been with us two fucking weeks. It’s not going to be pretty and I dread it.

[Bammer]

Just go to work like Bammer would, Reid.

*without testing