Alot of interesting things happen at my work. I work at a hockey rink and as you can probably guess the majority of the staff are male...well all the rink staff are male. all the females are in the snack bar and the bar lol. So as you can imagine alot of the guys have one tracked minds (i know you know what I mean). We always pick on eachother just for fun lol. anyway I guess for now I'll start putting down some events that happen at work :) so this first one will have more to it than the up comming that's for sure XD.
1. A co-worker and I were bored so for fun we raced toy cars down the Zamboni :P
2. I was at work and had just gotten a hair cut (I still get bugged about this one lol) and me and 3 of my co workers went out for a smoke break (Im one of few that don't smoke over there but i do go out there). suddenly one of my co workers gets a phone call, so he answers his cell and starts wandering off. The other two co workers look at eachother and one says "I hate it when people do that." and starts sneaking up on the other guy (the one on the cell). The co worker with the cell sees him and runs through the parking lot (its a night shift so we aren't to concerned about cars) while the guy that was sneaking up on him chases him. It's at this time that the 3rd co worker tells me to hold on to his Jacket and runs off with the other 2. So I'm standing there thinking "well forget this....I'm going inside."
so I walk inside and I hardly get in when I notice about 4 girls by the bench talking. Suddenly one looks over at me and screams "JUSTIN BEIBER!!!! :D". the first thing that went through my head was "T.T looks like I need a new hair cut.". By this point the girl starts running at me and the voice in my head is screaming "RUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNN!!!!!" but due to my confusion and shock I couldn't move. The girl then Hugs me, drops to the ground and starts hugging my leg. It's at this point I start to hear laughter coming from behind me. So I look back and see my 3 co workers leaning against the wall Dying of laughter. I am now thinking "I could use some help here! T.T" but they are to buisy laughing at me. The girl then stands up and starts dancing around and singing Justin Beiber songs. Needless to say the 4 of us slowly slipped to the back of the rink to hide lol.
Later that night we collected money off one of the ice rentals and my co workers (still laughing at me T.T) tell the guy paying. He then replies "ya that's my sister...she's normally like that." .....now I'm sorry but I do NOT see anything normal about that. XD
3. It was the day before Halloween and alot of weird things happened. First, my co worker gets hit with a puck (luckily on the steel toe other wise he'ld be on his way to the hospital if not dead.). Then we were in the Compressor room (this is where the machine that keeps the ice frozen is). Needless to say the room is extremely hot inside as it sucks all the heat out of the 4 rinks. I then say "it's amazing how something that keeps the ice so cold can make the room so damn hot!" as soon as I finish the sentence there's a power surge. The first thing going on in my head is "O_O What did I do?!?!?!" luckily we were in there or we would have had to close down 2 of our rinks for the night. We later find out that the surge has knocked out half of all the lights in the rink. (we find out later we had to reset the motion detectors). Soon after we go out onto the ice for a flood and see the guy in charge of music for the game up on the cross beams along the wall, about a good 20 ft in the air with no support. I later ask him what he was thinking and told him he's alot braver than I am lol. he told me he was up there because a puck hit the speaker and he had to fix the bracket's or it would come crashing down on him. Then to top it all off, at the end of the night we have to boost one of the bar worker's vans because she left the lights on. So we used the Zamboni :P lol. definately an interesting night.
4. Story 3 actually reminded me about this.
One day I was at work and everything was going on as normal. I went down to rink #3 for a flood when suddenly the guy incharge for the night comes racing in and asking with panic in his voice where the driver of the zamboni was. I was kinda confused so I pointed to where he was and he raced off. Another Driver then came in and and said "ok im going to do this fast. Then I need you to fill the Machine and I'll go make sure he's ok." I figured it was a family emergency so I shrugged and told him Ild do it. After the flood the driver runs off and I fill the machine.
I then make my way back to the main lobby. Everything was fine until I walked into the lobby from the rink to see nothing but smoke pouring out of the Compressor room and fire fighter's running in. In all the excitement the Driver that did the flood comes up to me and tells me that he and I have to go and make sure everyone evacuate's the building (the problem with this is not just the fire but the fact that the Compressor is filled with Ammonia and could cause an explosion big enough to wipe out the block). We then tell everyone to get out. Some refused so we figured "well we warned them.....let them die.".
We then left the building and met up with the guy in charge for the night. He told us it was an electrical fire so we didnt have to worry about chemicals. He then says "maybe I should move my car 'cause if this thing blows I don't want it to get damaged." so I look at him and say "If this thing blows your car will be the least of your worries.".
After everyone has left and the fire has been put out, we contact the manager and he tells me and the driver that did the flood to stay until 1 am to let the rink air out but everyine else can go home. We were'nt pleased to say the least but it gets worse...he then tells us to GO BACK IN and open all the doors to air out the building. So we go back in (ya ya I know we shouldn't have) and I tell him I'll get rinks 1 and 2 and he get's 3 and 4. So I go into rink one and try to prop open the doors. I had to use an old plank of wood to hold one open. As I go to prop open the last door I smash my mouth off the wooden plank. My first concerns were my snake bites (lip piercings) so I checked them and everything was fine. It was'nt until I put a finger in my mouth that I noticed I had torn my lip and was bleeding. I was Furious by this point and rammed through the doors cursing my bosses name. I ended up spitting blood for 15 minutes but luckily I was ok. However I still have a bit of a hole in the back of my lip.
5. Now I'll be honest I have a bad temper but through the years it's gotten harder to get me angry. However this day was just one of those days that everything went wrong. I had to do a flood that I wasn't told about till 2 minutes were left. I get to the Zamboni and find out that there is NO water in it, one of the propane tanks is EMPTY, and it's FULL of snow. to get all this done takes about 8 minutes plus I'm not a fan of Driving the Zamboni (I don't know why but I just hate it).
So I get out on the Ice and everything is going ok except im cursing the guy for telling me last minute under my breath lol. On the second lap I get off the machine to move the net (since my pegger decided to ditch me) and I slip and fall on the ice. Then on the 4th lap I miss a huge strip of ice and figure i'll get it later. The rest of the flood went well but when I went to turn to grab the missed strip I fish tail (spin out) about a good 270 degrees scratching the ice with the spikes in the tires. At this point I flipped and floored the machine to 30 Kph and and instead of slowing down all the way to turn I hit the break till I hit 25 Kph and Drift the Zamboni into the strip. I then floor it to 30 again, get off the ice, Shovel off the snow, close the gates, and head up to the front out for blood.
I get up to the front and find the guy incharge for the night and just lose it on him about the laziness of some workers. Then I find out I'm working with one of the Laziest workers that night. I had to stay till about 1am and be back for 9am so the night manager said he'll ask him to stay and I can go early. So as I waited I had to work with this guy and end up finding out that he is'nt watching over the dressing rooms (cleaning them and making sure the teams are out in time). So the night manager asks me to kick out one team because the room was needed.
I get down there and explain to them that they have a 30 min limit after the game and that we needed the room. They understood and left within 5 minutes. 15 minutes later I'm asked to kick out another team. Again I explain to them the time limit and that we need the room. The jerk then replies "What do you want us to do walk out Naked?! I don't need your additude!". As you can imagine I lost it. I told him and I quote "I'm not giving you additute....but if you want me to give you additude..I'M MORE THEN F'ING HAPPY TO GIVE YOU ADDITUDE!!! YOU HAD SINCE YOU GOT OFF THE DAMN ICE TO DO YOUR S#!T AND YOU DECIDED TO SCREW AROUND SO TO BAD! GET YOUR STUFF ON AND GET THE F*** OUT!!!" and walked off (my boss doesnt care so no I didnt get in trouble :P). So they got out in less than 5 minutes and didnt make eye contact with me lol.
If only it ended there....the co worker then refused to stay later forcing me to stay till later which because he didnt do the rooms ended up being 2am. I went home and called in sick the next day which opened a can of worms with my old fashioned grandfather...but he and my family are a whole different story lol.
