Hi there my friends, hope is everything alright with all of you.
I've founded a job recently and got out of it in one week, the reason? Take a seat and I'll tell you the whole story.
A friend of my father was opening a car wash and needed some guys to do the job and, since I was searching for a job, I gave it a try (Washing cars isn't something bad isn't it?)
And now the problems was just begining, first of it, the place was a total garbage and had no workers in there (He lied to me and said there was other 2 guys,I was the first hired), second it was in the back of an auto mechanic (Motor Oil everywere, Auto Parts, Tar and everything you imagine) and I had 2 bosses (One was the owner of the Auto Mechanic and the other was the friend of my father)
There was nothing in there that resembled a car wash, since it was everything scattered around the place, garbage and everything, and my job was to clean up all that place. At first it was ok, but later on, the mechanic wanted me to clean up all the car mechanic and he said to me "Remember, your job is to get everything in place, for working in a car wash, you need to get everything clean, clients don't want to get their cars dirty right?", but hey, an auto mechanic is always dirty everywere if you know what I mean, and this ends the first day.
On the second day, he wanted me to set all the machinery for the work and he helped me to lift some of those heavy machines, after that, he started teaching me how to do the job, but it wasn't just use water and soap and done, it was an ecological wash with very hot steam (something around 250ºC (482ºF) and believe me, there wasn't no safety equipment and the high pressure pistol was falling apart and an accident happened, the hose that was connected to the pistol has released and in a matter of seconds I threw it on the ground and ran far away from it (Thank god I didn't got my eyes burned and got blinded), I've called my father's friend and he called the mechanic to see what happened and both of then started laughing at me (Hey, getting close to get your face burned by a 250 degree steam was funny? C'mon)
After 5 minutes, another accident happened, the hose simply exploded close to my legs and hot boiling water got all over my pants (If I were wearing shorts, my legs would be burned).
On the Third day, a car went there for a total cleaning up (Including seats, roof and everything around the interior), I've done my best for cleaning up the car and I called my father's friend to see the difference before and after, he simply turned around and said to me "Do you really pay someone for cleaning up your car and do a bad job like this? I can do this myself in my house, if I were the client, I wouldn't pay for this s**t", so I spent 3 hours just in this car, it was everything cleaned up and he keep saying it was garbage. When the client came back to grab the car, he complimented me saying he didn't saw a perfect job like that in all those years and I deserved more than that and he paid me +20 bucks as a bonus for the job, I was very happy (But the mechanic and my father's friend were really, REALLY angry at me).
On the Forth Day, a truck went to be cleaned and my father's friend wanted to do the work and surprisely enough, the truck driver just said one thing "I don't want you to clean up my truck, I want that long-haired guy over there to clean it up, my friend said he did a perfect job in his car and I want him to do so", that maded him really angry at me and when I was doing the job, my father's friend and the mechanic did everything to hinder me, the parts I already cleaned up they were throwing dirty just for me to cleaning it again, saying I was doing a bad job, until they began to humiliate me and started calling me names, even saying that I was gay and looking like a girl with the long hair (Looking gay just for the long hair? Never saw a girl with beard but ok...)
I didn't tolerated such humiliation and quit the job, I've told everything that happened over there to my father and he said "If I were you, I didn't last till the second day, you got some nerves for getting up to such humiliation and went even for the forth day, you did the right thing quitting this job"
After that, my father's friend and the mechanic picked up in a fight between each other and the shop closed and none of then talk with each other anymore (Punishment well deserved IMO).
Wow that sounds absolutely horrible...
Hope what's on your nose heals up.
Sorry about your story. But, dude, you have great curls going on. Jealous. I would be letting the go wild.
Hi there, I am glad that a customer liked your work and told others about it... but it sounds like you are better off not working there anyway...
Your hair is looking great.. I wish you the best..
The Spaf Man
Hi Guilherme,
I am very sorry to read this story! I am happy to hear that those idiots got what the deserved though!:) Your hair is looking awesome and I love the curls and dark color! It's just going to look even better when it gets longer! Please keep it growing and stay well my friend!
Ted