by Henk ter Heide on Wednesday June 20, 2007
I’ve read somewhere that if you would see a tennis player in the buff you would see that the muscles in his right shoulder are much better developed then the muscles in his left shoulder (assuming he’s right handed). I don’t know about tennis player but it might be true for people who draw.
As I predicted a while back I’m getting better in the technique of blending colors and it’s taking less time but it’s still a lot of work.
Star field 2th sketch
After doing one of these drawing my shoulder is hurting a little. Half way through the second I had to go and do something else because my whole arm hurt.
Mm. After doing the drawing I find it isn’t quit what I had in mind. Maybe I’ll try something new in a while as part of something else. A star field on it self is a lot of work with a boring result.
BTW if you try to color a large surface, like I do in this drawing, you’ll often find that some pencil strokes are much darker then others. To prevent this you should turn the pencil around it’s axel while you’re drawing. That’ll give you more control on the thickness of the line. Then again maybe you want a very light color in that case you should make your strokes longer. Strokes of fifteen to twenty centimeter work nicely.
I’ve read somewhere that if you would see a tennis player in the buff you would see that the muscles in his right shoulder are much better developed then the...
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by Henk ter Heide on Monday June 18, 2007
I’m again on sick leave. Again.
I was working at Promen‘s branch in Cappelle aan de Ijsel but they run out of work a few weeks ago. Thinking that was temporary I took some holidays but I’ve none left and still there is no work.
Since they run out of options they pressured me to except placement at the “doorstroom afdeling” (the overflow department) in Gouda. Every department in Gouda I’ve ever worked turned out to be very chaotic and I feared that would also be the case with the Overflow department.
Truch 1th sketch
The Overflow department is the department for people for whom Promen hasn’t any work. Nothing at this department is organized. People are just placed in this room, some product is dumped in the room and people are told to fend for them selves.
Nobody knows what is expected of them so they all roam the room looking for something to do. The moment that someone has some idea of what he could do every other person in room jumps in. Resulting in a situation where ten people are doing a job that would go better when it was done by two people.
I was brought there last Wednesday and endured it for about an hour before I fled. The second day was little better and I fled after two hours. The third day I called in sick.
I’m not quit sure what will happen next. According to the agreement I have with Promen they should place me at the department in Cappelle aan de Ijsel but they don’t have work. Promen will probably claim that this are circumstances beyond there control, which isn’t actually the case. It has been known for a few years that the demand for unskilled labor would change when the European Union would open the border eastern Europe. Promen just didn’t act on this change.
I’ll just wait and see. In the mean time I can work on my drawings.
I’m again on sick leave. Again. I was working at Promen‘s branch in Cappelle aan de Ijsel but they run out of work a few weeks ago. Thinking that was...
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by Henk ter Heide on Saturday May 12, 2007
As per the agreement I have with Promen I’ve been working at the shop in Capelle a/d IJsel since last week monday.
I have to be at a meeting point in Gouda at 7 AM and they take me to capelle. Then at 4.30 PM they take me back.
Wednesday I came out of my work at 4.30 PM and found that the car was gone. I phoned the meeting point and was told that the car had been in Capelle till 4.15 PM when it had left as always. They had tried to contact me but I refused to leave my work. I told them that I was never contacted and they send a new car.
Doodle
Yesterday morning when I got to the meeting point I was greeted by a very angry manager of the transport department who asked me why I hadn’t been out in front of the building at 4.15 PM just as I had been told. I told him that nobody ever told me that I would be pick up at 4.15 PM but that I would discuss it with my the manager of my department.
The manager of my department didn’t like it. He thinks that since I’m paid to work till 4.30 PM I should work till 4.30 PM. Off course the manager of the transport department didn’t agree which led to a little mini war which was won by the manager of my department.
So now I’m very scared.
I’ve taken the day off.
The rule used to be that you’d put a notice on the desk of this manager and if there are objections he will tell you.
But it has been four weeks since I worked for this manager and it’s quite possible that he changed the rules and neglected to tell me about it. It’s quite possible that Promen will tell me next week that they won’t hold there end of the agreement because I didn’t play by the new rules.
Probably not, but it is possible.
I get very scared of these kinds of uncertainties.
As per the agreement I have with Promen I’ve been working at the shop in Capelle a/d IJsel since last week monday. I have to be at a meeting point...
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