Back on VI - Oh Happy Day
Posted by trevor Wed, 03 Aug 2005 18:00:05 GMT
I’ve been back home on Vancouver Island for less than a week now. I was in the UK visiting family and friends during July and I have to say that I’m really glad to be home now.
Why? Well, it’s the little things. Okay it’s also the big things like we don’t tend to worry about being blown up or anything. But more-so it’s the little things like how you’re treated when you go into a shop.
Good god the people in the UK service industry seem to loath their jobs.
Here on my little island people are doing the same, seemingly pointless, things to earn money. Manning the checkout, stocking shelves, answering the same questions over and over again on the telephone.
And yet, they generally do it with a smile on their face and with a touch of personality. They seem determined to take an otherwise mundane job and add something special to it.
It’s as though everybody on the island was given a copy of Finding Flow after graduating high school or something.
