Plant a Garden
by Edgar Guest
“If your purse no longer bulges
and you’ve lost your golden treasure,
If times you think you’re lonely
and have hungry grown for pleasure,
Don’t sit by your hearth and grumble,
don’t let mind and spirit harden.
If it’s thrills of joy you wish for
get to work and plant a garden!
If it’s drama that you sigh for,
plant a garden and you’ll get it
You will know the thrill of battle
fighting foes that will beset it.
If you long for entertainment and
for pageantry most glowing,
Plant a garden and this Summer spend
your time with green things growing.”
Guess it’s gardening week for me, not nekkid. New work place just called and Mondays are their preferred day to start people so next Monday I go in and do all the paperwork. They couldn’t even get a hold of the HR lady last Fri, else I’d probably be going in today. Didn’t get an actual start date but probably Tues.
Old way - walk in and ask if they’re looking for help, if so, start the next day.
New way - fill out application - wait a week for a call - go in for interview - wait a week for a call - get scheduled for a week later - fill out oodles of paperwork - get scheduled a week later for orientation - start a day or two after that.
I like the old way before every little company had an HR person. The HR thing is so aggravating.
I’m gonna go play with some dirt and goat poop now.