Rest is needed...
Like I said, work was busy today, I worked on my own section with the leader of that section, his name is Mirsjad and was born in Croatia. He's alot younger then me, he's around 30 and works like a horse, no one can keep up with him.We got much done, at the end of the day. It was here and there a bit overwhelming but okay, I managed to finnish my order what I needed to finnish today, and a bit more plus the rest. I like the way Mirsjad works, he's a bit like me, though I have a limit, I can't go for a 100% cause of my thyroid, and I surely won't. I do what I can do, with sometimes just that little bit more if I feel I can. I said it before, I love the work I do! Though there is something, uhm, how do you say it....
...There are groups formed at work. I mean, uhm, let me explain, we have differnt kind of workers at work, we have the Turkish people, we have the Croatian people and the Ducth people. It isn't that weird that most of the Turkish people sit with each other and the Croatian people join them. With the breaks they sit with each other aswell and not in the cantine but just outside or just inside the factory. The rest of the workers mostly Dutch and some Turkish people sit in the cantine while having our breaks. Why? Uhm, perhaps they don't want to sit with us according to the Dutch people, and there were here and there a few jokes going around...
In my eyes they are sitting somewhere esle because of the language and I think aswell because they are foreigners... they join each other. I think there's nothing wrong with that, let them, it's fine with me. I sit in the cantine aswell, cause that's the place where I always sit with breaks, I'm used to it. Though I hear here and there a few complains of the Dutch people, they are asking themselves why 'they' don't sit with us, following up to that the usual joke around. I think that's a part of the why they sit somehwere else. I heard yesterday from my Boss that the atmosphere is gone, "It isn't as it was before anymore, in the past they all sat with each other," said my Boss.
Today I heard from Mirsjad that there were here and there a few bad jokes about foreigners from some workers in the past, that's a part aswell why 'they' sit alone, add 'foreigners join each other easily because of the language,' and there you have it. I think that's a pity, they should just join us, but I guess it's maybe to late for that, we all are used to it now. About forming groups, I wasn't quit right, ofcource there's here and there sometimes some jokes and aswell some complains from the Dutch people, but we ALL talk and communicate aswell with each other, there are no enemies and there's no hate. Maybe we just have to accept that 'they' sit somewhere else, and that they search each other up for a talk or a joke, it's all fine with me.
