10.04.05

Category: dribblings

sometimes i get to work for sane, normal people and sometimes i have to work for rich, white ladies.

this first thing at this job that went wrong is that the rich white lady hired the painters AND the flooring people AT THE SAME TIME.

lesson: i don’t care what your time frame is, ALWAYS paint BEFORE you redo the hardwood floors, m’kay? i know that you aren’t a complete moron, but some people are and that’s why i’m having to tell the whole class.

so. we are playing Beat the Clock with the floor people which… will never happen. they always win because once they stain and finish the floor there’s at least a 2 day period where no one can enter the house. so we will lose AT LEAST 2 painting days. which wouldn’t be so bad IF THE PEOPLE WEREN’T MOVING INTO THE HOUSE IN 7 DAYS. *enter maniacal laughter here*

so on monday night (we couldn’t work there during the day because the floor guys were sanding everything and it’s just not a good idea to paint walls only to have the floor guys mess them up with sanding debris. so monday evening we paint 3 rooms and cut in 2 other rooms.

today during the day we get a phone call form the rich, white lady, who by the way, saw us painting that evening and said how much she LOVES the color, which by the way, is the same color that her other house is. and i can only assume that she’s painting everything the same color because her furniture and stuff already matches. well, she says that we’ve painted the wrong color in all those rooms.
she also says that it’s not our fault.
she then says that what the deal is, is that the paint store has her file and that THEY mixed the wrong color. because, see, SHE has a different name brand (pratt and lambert) “chamois” (pronounced shammy, for those of you not up on silly french words) in her file, and the paint store used their brand (benjamin moore) “chamois” because they didn’t check the file. so see, it’s the same name just different paint brands and ADMITTEDLY she says THERE’S NOT MUCH DIFFERENCE IN THE TWO COLORS she says BUT SHE WENT AHEAD AND BOUGHT FOUR GALLONS OF IT ANYWAY SO THAT WE CAN REPAINT THE ROOMS WE’VE ALREADY PAINTED.
ps. THESE ARE $30 CANS OF PAINT.

and YOU KNOW there isn’t much difference because SHE WATCHED US paint the rooms. she commented on how she LOVES the color and how FRESH she thinks the color looks.

lesson: i don’t know if you know what color “chamois” is, or if you can guess what color it is, but let me share something with you. there are only certain colors that you can describe as fresh. they are certain greens, blues, light pinks, maybe a couple of yellows. under no circumstances is ANYONE allowed to refer to a BEIGE as being “fresh”. i don’t care if it’s called “chamois”, “shaker”, “mocha”, “bone”, or “chesterton” beige is beige. it’s dead. don’t get me wrong, i love beige, it really make things nice and simple. “shaker beige” is a very popular color and i think it’s great. but fresh? no. standard…yes.

anyway. this evening we go back and paint the same walls we painted last night with the new “chamois” and boy, SHE WASN’T KIDDING WHEN SHE SAID THE COLORS WERE REALLY CLOSE. what a complete waste of TIME and MONEY and since TIME is MONEY? THEN IT’S REALLY JUST A WASTE OF MONEY. so we’re even farther behind now. which is maddening in and of itself, but see, that’s not what’s really making me mad, the whole “do over” thing isn’t really the sick part, the enraging part, (i’m getting paid by the hour, so i’ll still get paid for painting the “wrong” color.). the ever so punch-to-the-gut thing? the thing that makes this WHOLE thing extra stupid, redundant and wasteful? they are in the middle of building a house and this house that we are painting? IS A TEMPORARY RESIDENCE FOR THEM AND THEY’LL ONLY BE THERE 6 MONTHS TOPS. HELLO?! DID YOU HEAR ME?! AND SHE CAN’T LIVE WITH AN EVER. SO. SLIGHTLY. DARKER SHADE OF BEIGE FOR 6 MONTHS?! THERE IS SO LITTLE DIFFERENCE IN THE TWO SHADES THAT IF YOU PAINTED TWO WALLS OF THE SAME ROOM WITH EACH COLOR? NO ONE WOULD NOTICE. I AM NOT EXAGGERATING THE SIMILARNESS OF THESE TWO COLORS.

money makes you stupid.

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