I’m high on Kendal Cake!
Friday, 7th of October 2022
Last week I published an an article where I had a bit of a rant at my work situation. Lucky that I didn’t post more on Tuesday, because it was another challenging day at work. Looks like my nerves didn’t go to waste, because I can see some changes for the better at work. It’s only fair that I post about a funny day at work for a change, because these happen too!
There is a very nice gentleman that visits our company to run some tests every few weeks. He is super chatty though, so if I’m busy, I have to kinda duck him, because if he starts telling a story, that’s 15-30 mins gone easily. Apart from being chatty and very good at what he does however, he is also very resourceful. He has a gift for finding the weirdest things in places where he goes to run the tests. Usually those things are about to end up in the bin, when he picks them and asks if he can take them. Then he finds new owners for these things in other places he visits.
During pandemic, one of the companies Nelson visited had a lot of leftover food from the canteen, as not many people were working at the office. He saw boxes of sweets and asked what are they planning to do with it and they said they will throw it away, so he took all of those home. Upon his next visit in our company, he brought many of those sweets for employees. That was way before I started working there, but when we were tidying up the office yesterday, I found 2 packs of Kendal Cakes.
They were out of date by a year, but my colleagues told me it matters not, because they’re all sugar. Indeed, as I looked at the nutrients 97% was carbs. They also said that if I eat it, I’ll be high as a kite on this amount of sugar. I left the bar for after the lunch, when I usually become sluggish and need a bit of pick me up. Some of my colleagues also said it doesn’t taste nice, even his kids didn’t like it.
What can I say? I tried a piece and I liked it, as it reminded me of sweets I ate back in Poland when I was a kid. So I ate the whole bar!
I’m really unsure if it was the Kennel Cake, a few compliments I received from my coworkers or the perspective of the weekend about to start for me, but the last 3 hours of work was hilarious! I haven’t laughed so much in a very long time. In fact I laughed so much that I made everyone around me laugh too and it was like a comedy day.
One of my colleagues, Kevin came to our office for a little chat and on his way back to the foundry I was heading there too, but through a different route. He said I should come with him and it will be our date. So I said ok and got hold of his arm. The other inspector saw it and said:
‘Oh no! You’re cheating on me again!’ 😅
We laughed and then Kevin and I continued our ‘date’ to the foundry and once we were there he said to me:
’I will be honest with you Monika, I’ve had worse dates than this one’
That made me laugh so much, that I was still laughing when I reached my boss, so of course I had to tell him all about it, which made him laugh too.
Earlier that day our machinist went home for his lunch. We were taking bets if he’ll come back after work, cause the other day he also went home at lunch and never came back. My boss told me that our HR lady was fed up with him and was planning to have a chat with him.
A few hours after lunch I asked Danny if ‘The stick’ came back. He said very seriously that he came back just to be fired and he is being escorted off the premises as we speak and for some reason he looks very surprised. Truth be told, The stick, as I called him (to the amusement of my colleagues) has missed 10 days of work in 5 weeks of his employment and was tinkering with the machines cycle times, so he can play on his phone. The end of his career in our company was eminent, but I was still unsure if Danny was serious.
I went to check for myself… My director stood in the middle of the shop-floor with his hands on his hips when I approached him.
‘Sooo… what’s happening with The stick?’ I asked him.
‘I just fired him’ said my director.
‘Well done mate’ I replied and tapped him on the shoulder.
As I walked back to inspection I couldn’t stop laughing. There were 3 colleagues in the office and they watched me laughing and all started laughing waiting for me to stop laughing and tell them what happened. I finally told them and looked through the window and I said:
‘Look at P.! He’s still there with his hands on his hips looking around and wondering what just happened.’
I had tears in my eyes by the time our director reached our office. He walked in also laughing and said:
‘No more Kendal cakes for you!’ 😅
And of course we all laughed even more. I quickly grabbed the last half of Kendal cake and hid it in my drawer. I’m sure one of those days it will come handy! 😂
Until next time 💙
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Was it really sugar that's there in those cakes? I don't think so lol! Whatever it is, I want some of those, please! :D :D