Why so many rules?
I always wonder why the more straight forward the job, the more rules there are. We were handed a printed manual that was roughly 20 pages printed front and back. Some of the more important rules are posted on the wall in the caddy office. I can't quite figure out if everyone is in on the joke, or if turning a blind eye has taken on a whole new meaning.
Some things that are expressly prohibited:
1- Sleeping. I had to contort myself to read this posted rule so as not to disturb the the caddy sleeping in a chair right beneath the sign.
2- Gambling. Are they kidding, or what? You are expecting a bunch of guys who may be asked to sit around for hours on end in a concrete-walled room with no windows to refrain from gambling? Why don't you ban swearing, smoking and thinking about sex while you're at it? Of course this rule is undermined by the deck of cards and stack of poker chips on one of the tables. I was still in the middle of my first day when one of the more seasoned loopers confided to me that if things were slow and I needed to make some extra cash, there was a guy there who would take book. What IS the spread in the Knicks game tonight, anyway?
3- No smoking. I had thought that tobacco use had all but been eradicated from the American landscape. This was before I showed up at the caddy office the first day.
I still don't know how these guys do it: drinking and smoking all night and then out at 7am in the hot sun jogging 7 miles with two 30-pound golf bags on your shoulder. I'm not exactly Jack LaLanne, but I consider myself pretty healthy and I am having serious doubts as to whether I am up to the physical demands of the job.
A friend made an excellent observation today when he said to me, "You know what you've just joined? A fraternity."
Some things that are expressly prohibited:
1- Sleeping. I had to contort myself to read this posted rule so as not to disturb the the caddy sleeping in a chair right beneath the sign.
2- Gambling. Are they kidding, or what? You are expecting a bunch of guys who may be asked to sit around for hours on end in a concrete-walled room with no windows to refrain from gambling? Why don't you ban swearing, smoking and thinking about sex while you're at it? Of course this rule is undermined by the deck of cards and stack of poker chips on one of the tables. I was still in the middle of my first day when one of the more seasoned loopers confided to me that if things were slow and I needed to make some extra cash, there was a guy there who would take book. What IS the spread in the Knicks game tonight, anyway?
3- No smoking. I had thought that tobacco use had all but been eradicated from the American landscape. This was before I showed up at the caddy office the first day.
I still don't know how these guys do it: drinking and smoking all night and then out at 7am in the hot sun jogging 7 miles with two 30-pound golf bags on your shoulder. I'm not exactly Jack LaLanne, but I consider myself pretty healthy and I am having serious doubts as to whether I am up to the physical demands of the job.
A friend made an excellent observation today when he said to me, "You know what you've just joined? A fraternity."
posted by yakker at 10:13 PM
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