As part of my hectic summer schedule I took my empty bottles to Save On Food's recycling service. It was somewhat busy but there were two girls/women working there and the one who served me was about a 19-22 yr. old, tatted up, pierced, and with purple hair. Seldom have I seen a person working in the service industry (or really any industry) so happy with her/his work. She helped my sort my bottles (something that no other recycling clerk at Save-On has ever done) but, she complimented me on my ability to crush the bottles in advance. During the time she was helping me she received a package (which turned out to be lunch from a fast food place) from a person who was clearly a "binner". As she told me, this guy is in every day to redeem what he's collected but the people at Save-On reserve any liquor/beer/wine bottles that people leave (b/c Save-On does not recycle them)and pass them on to him and he then takes them to a liquor store for the recycling fee. Apparently, he makes a fair amount of money doing this as he buys lunch for the Save-On recycling clerks a couple of times a week. She then told me that it was his birthday next week and they (the Save-On recycling clerks) were taking him out for dinner (DRo, no drooling, but they were planning to take him to Mr. Mikes!!).
It was great to see someone who is clearly working in a non-glamorous job truly making the best of it. She was an inspiriation.
2 comments:
Nice to hear about someone going the extra mile, and I am drooling about that oh so shitty Mike's burger.
I'm drooling about the girl from the way you described her.
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