I get paid for this.

I get paid for this.

Quite the day at work yesterday. I wrote it down. In chronological order:

• 9:50am :: Ann dropped me off at the mall early because she had to go to her work. I took a power nap on a mall bench to wait.
• 10:30am :: Went to work. Clocked in. The driver and the truck had gotten help up at a warehouse picking some stuff up. So i waited.
• 11:25am :: Changed two lightbulbs in the store.
• 12:00pm :: Truck shows up. We take of for the calumet city store. Calumet city is almost in indiana, about a One hours drive.
• 12:46pm :: Truck starts sputtering.
• 12:50pm :: Truck dies. We are on the Dan Ryan Expressway. There is lots and lots of traffic.
• 12:54pm :: We discover that the single belt that connects everything in the engine is tangled around the fan. Which caused the truck to simultaniously lose power and over heat.
• 1:00pm :: We sit in the truck and wait. It gets cold.
• 1:50pm :: Sameer shows up. We sit and wait in his car. It has heat.
• 2:41pm :: Truck repair guy shows up.
• 2:52pm :: Trafic control guy shows up to check on us.
• 3:30pm :: We learn that one od the wheels that held the belt in place is gone. No one knows where it’s gone. It is just gone.
• 3:45pm :: We leave in Sameers car. No one has told me where we are going yet.
• 4:20pm :: Ate at the McDonalds in the Calumet City mall. Sameer bought me two Big Macs.
• 4:40pm :: Sat and waited in the Cal City store.
• 5:13pm :: Went back to the truck.
• 5:40pm :: Truck is fixed. Drove it to the Call City store.
• 6:00pm :: Unloaded the truck, and filled it back up. Couches mostly.
• 7:00pm :: Deliveries were all postponed, we drove back mall where the truck lives.
• 8:15pm :: I clock out. Total hours on the clock = 9.75h. Total hours I spent doing actual work = 1h.

Xian 12:31 PM, 03.22.02 - p-link