TGIT, Thank God it's Thursday! Weekend!!

TGIT, Thank God it's Thursday! Weekend!!

Yay! Weekend, time for some rest and some time for myself. It's a nice mix I must say, it's nice to meet my workers at work, and it's nice to meet the old residents at Humanitas and at the free dinner, but in the weekends or mostly on every evening it's nice aswell to be on my own a bit. That will change though, cause I want to get out more, join a sport or a club, find a hobby, ect, ect. But for now it's nice, I like it.  I'm doing well, I like how it is at the moment, I see people and I have my privacy aswell. Today I had a good start, I worked today and it went good. As the day went by I was getting tired though, the end of the week sneaked in and took away my energy. Like always in the end of the week, it's a sign I need my rest and my relaxation.

There's a guy working at Reha and I think I mentioned him before, his name is Mark. Mark went with me a few months ago to Ikea, to pick out the laminate I wanted and the matrass. Mark has a light form of ADHD, he's rough and he's a little to busy so now and then, but he's nice aswell. Sometimes he can be annoying cause of his ADHD, he's then to loud, to busy, and sometimes to rough. Today he he had a accident at work, and we all saw it comming. Most of us were saying to each other, "One day he will get a accident if he goes on like that." Mark works rough and fast. Like last Monday me and Mark  had to saw wood into little square parts, 7cm by 7cm, we used the major electric saw for that. (see picture underneath)

At work we have a saw like this, we used it for the wood we had to saw in little squares.

The wood we had to saw was bad and very fragile, some of the wood you could brake apart just like that. We had to saw little square parts of it, 7cm by 7cm. I was carefull cause the first one I had to saw the saw went a bit wild, I had to pull the electric but aswell push it a bit back, cause first the sawing went heavy and suddenly it went like crazy. You could say I had to stire the saw a bit trough the wood, when I did it a few times I was getting used to it, but still, safety first. I had to be carefull and take it easy. Mark didn't mind that much while sawing, he was carefull but not as carefull as I was, he wanted this to be done, with a little bit of his ADHD and his roughness he went crazy but steady. If the saw stummbled he did't wait but pulled it trough the wood like he had a axe in his hand. So wrong.

Another worker and I looked at him and I said to him, "One day he will regret this." He agreed. The day after Mark did the same work, sawing and pulling, untill the saw suddenly stopped. The saw was overheated, no wonder! Mark had to go on another electric saw and the Boss told him to take it easy this time, and he did. This Morning Mark had to make something for a friend of him, he walked to the little electric saw, most of the workers were in another hall. Wae have two halls, one hall is where all the odered wood comes in and some of the wood will be sawed. in the other hall is where all the furniture will be made, My section, lol. Anyway, Mark had to saw something on the little electric saw in hall B, suddenly he walks the other hall in and shouts, "I need help cause I'm bleeding."

The type of saw Mark used.

Most of us were not paying much attention on him, cause we were busy, we thought he just needed a bandage. Later on the Boss went with him towards the cantine and put a bandage on him, lots of bandage. When I saw him I went a bit pale and felt nauseos, just the idea that he had his hand in the saw (it wasn't that bad though) made me feel a bit eeek! And ouch! Mark was taken to the Hospital, first aid. He could walk though, the pain was okay and he talked normal. Another worker looked at the saw and cleaned up the tiny little spots of blood, it was needed (sorry) All workers felt a bit eek and nauseos, Mark came back later and had a clean bandage on and his arm in a esmarchbandage. He smiled and made a few jokes, sight, that's Mark. The Doctor adviced hime to take a week rest. Oops, Mark and rest? Right!

Mark had a huge scarf in two fingers, he was luck though that he didn't dammaged his tendons. He was brought home and we all went back to work, I had the same work in the afternoon I did like last Monday, sawing the little square parts (7cm by 7cm)  Yep, the bad wood was still there. I had to saw it on the major saw together with Henkie. With still the thought's of Mark I and Henkie went to work, but first we cleaned up, "Nothing works better with a clean spot, safety first!" Said Henkie. I agreed with him, the sawing went fine, we took our time and took it easy. Still I think it's better to have more safety on our work, I mean we have 3 electric saws in one hall, anything can happen, and then? Ofcource the 'Dutch labour inspectorate' will visit us after what happened with Mark, I'm happy with it. Safety first! 

The Dutch Labour Inspectorate is a part of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment and oversees the work as the rules surrounding workplace legislation. The monitoring shall include the keeping of inspections. For violations, the Labor fines.

Today was a nice day, a bit sad about Mark, but hey, I hope he learned from it. Today aswell I had a phonecall from my new counselor, he made a appointment with the lady who I (tried) to talk with about the switching of the bank account numbers at the cityhall. Me and my counselor have some things to settle and arrange there, finally I can make a start to settle a few things, sigh! I hope it all turns out well, I'm sure it will.  Now I have weekend, tomorrow I ordered myself to do a few things aswell like my counselor does also. But surely I will take my rest and my relaxation too, Planning some 'me' time. I'm ready for the weekend!