I spent a little over an hour Monday morning cleaning up the garbage bin behind the office. There was a bunch of soggy cardboard and other junk there that had to be bagged up and put to the curb. My thought was, "winter's nearly here and in spring this is going to be 100 times worse of a job" so I went out and cleaned it up. After all, it was 9am on Monday morning with only one computer in the shop for repair, so I wasn't overwhelmed with stuff to do.
Anyway, someone noticed. It happened to be the manager, who liked that I cleaned up. At the end of the day he took me aside and told me he was happy I had done that and he and the boss wanted to pay for Colin and I to have dinner. I was quite excited, it was really a nice thing for them to do. I guess the boss really was happy, as he called me from Fredricton today and gave me a raise. He said it was just for taking initiative and trying to make his shop a better place. All I could do was say a thank you and tell him that I appreciated it.
The job certainly isn't the most glamorous in the world, but I just plain like it. It suits me. Yay!
