Silver Strike44
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Posted - 2016.06.24 07:22:00 -
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I was just a bum living in California. I sat around all day playing the same old video game. One day, I was struck with motivation to get a job. So, I did. After some searching, I came across a mining company that needed people to work machines. I didnGÇÖt think myself qualified for the position, but the ad for it said no experience was needed. After one quick phone call followed by a brief interview, I was hired. I finally had something to occupy my time that wasnGÇÖt video games. And not only that, but it was something that would make me feel productive and, of course, earn me some money. I didnGÇÖt want to ask too many questions before I had even started, but I felt I should at least know what I would be doing, exactly. I asked and the man told me I would be operating a machine that would mine for silver. He told me it was really simple. All I had to do was operate the machine as instructed and keep my mouth shut. I walked out of that office with a spring in my step and a smile on my face knowing I was finally SOMETHING. I was an operator who mined for silver.
My enthusiasm was quickly quashed. My workspace was a tiny room with only me in it. Worse than that was what I was doing. It really just boiled down to me pressing one button every few seconds and rotating a joy stick. It was no different from the video game I played day in and day out. I was looking forward to doing something every day that challenged me, not this. The fact that I had nobody to interact with while doing the job was like a load of salt into a massive wound. I loved talking to people. It didnGÇÖt matter to me if they didnGÇÖt care what I was saying;
I just loved having someone to talk at. Things were looking grim for me here.
I wasnGÇÖt about to let those things get me down there. I figured out a way with which I didnGÇÖt have to be at my station all the time. This allowed me to sneak out of that tiny room and find other employees to converse with. Most of them told me to leave them alone or that they didnGÇÖt care what I had to say, but I always felt like they were lying to me. So, I had more or less resolved the issues I had with the job and things were great, at least for a little while. One day the manager found me away from my station and figured out what I had been doing. He yelled at me. He said that I needed to stay at my station and not talk to the other employees while I was at work. I explained to him that I figured out a way to make what I was doing work. He told me that I was an idiot and that what I was doing drastically reduced the efficiency of the whole operation. He told me that he didnGÇÖt care about me and that the silver was all that mattered. I would be fired if it happened again. GÇ£If you want to keep being the operator, do your job right because the silver is all that matters here.GÇ¥
I did just that. I did as I was instructed day in and day out until the company that owned the operation shut down. So, I went back to my video games until they shut that down, too. To this day, my basket gets tilted every time I even hear the word "silver."
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