work – Robin Heinen

Booooring!

It was just before 11pm on a dark October Saturday night. I sat at a computer placed on a tiny wobbly desk in the middle of the huge factory hall. To my right there was a large packaging conveyor belt line, connected to a large boxing robot. To the left, a smaller line that onlyContinue reading “Booooring!”

You’re fired!

“If you want, you can still work today, so you did not show up for nothing” he said, while chewing on his toothpick, “but this day will be your last. You’re done.” Five years I had worked at the nursery. Every Saturday, every holiday, and many winter evening hours were spent there. I loved theContinue reading “You’re fired!”