I’m making so much big green

That you should call me Bruce Banner.

The new Big Muni trash contract that is keeping me away from Boomershoot this year has begun.

This week was a wild one, but my fellow employees and I have taken up the challenge and beaten it. There are still plenty of things to get set upright that will smooth out the processes, but upon consideration of everything that could have gone wrong, I think we’ve done a damn commendable job (we’re talking 90,000+ households and a few thousand small, medium and large business cleared in five days by 200+ drivers and 25 office staff).

One of the oddest parts of this whole process is that the information we are working with was mandated to be given to us from our main competitor (also a national corporation with local operations) by the Muni. We beat them so bloody during the last couple years in number of customers won, quality of service and safety that they had about the same chance at winning the contract that I would have at winning the Bianchi Cup.

And while I won’t say here that the “errors” in their transferred database were intentional, if I wanted to have a thousand or so people start out pissed off at the new contract-holder, this is close to what I’d have done.

So now it is the weekend and we’re all beat after having worked a large quantity of overtime. Some of us are even putting in some short Saturday work so as to make sure we start Monday fresh. I’ll probably be pretty quiet this weekend, but back with a vengeance on Monday.

I hope your weekend stays quiet, unless you’re going to the range, and that you get some decent weather to enjoy it under.

Until Monday AM then, be good to yourselves.