July 2005: Working for Saubermacher

Sorry to say that but: the horror! the horror!
But it showed me what I am studying for:
To never have to do a job like this for good. God!

A lot of people working at Saubermacher are Spanish (Que? oh Dios!!) and try to stay as sane as possible doing this bad work. There are also some health-supporting ideas like finding money and jewelry in the trash, which is reported to have happened, and I also have observed it happening. I personally also had to trick myself to stay sane, sometimes it was hard.

The other group of people is Turkish, in the beginning I was surpised to see that there were toilets for man, woman and ... Turkish! Of course i had to check, it was just that style of toilet that is basicly a hole in the ground. It seems Turkish people don't like to sit down.

Ramazan was the man I was mainly working with. He was a friendly and decent person, nevertheless somewhat strict with the work. There was also another coworker called Tschemal, a truck driver who was transporting the full trash containers inside the junkyard. He was dreaming to go and live in LA.

He told me that his back was hurting because the truck steering wheel is quite hard to turn. At this time I had a rough time digging in trash, putting nets over truck loads of rubbish and trying to keep the street of the outside rubbish dump clean, which had no reasonable chance to ever succeed...

However, thinking about that it would have made me quite happy just to have to turn a hard going steering wheel instead of doing the things that I had to do showed me: Problems are always *subjective*.

We were also talking about that I want to stay in Finland for about four years. He told me that once you stayed in a country longer than three years, you stick to it. Will see...

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