During the last months, Nathan has been busy getting a job. As part of that process, I found myself with the chance to go to Ballpark of the Palm Beaches, a new minor league Spring training facility. I was offered a job doing something with the food services during the six weeks that Spring training was to last. It is a a brand new facility--beautiful even to one who could care less about baseball or Spring training.
Even though I knew that I wasn't interested in actually working (euuuuu!), I had never been offered a job like this before--so I decided to go and sit through the orientation.
It was a really wild experience. They brought everyone in and got them their ID tag with their photo on it. Everyone was offered snacks and a drink and when about 100 people were all seated along rows of long tables. The presentation continued with a video about the company that was hired to provide the food services--that everyone would actually be working for. I was impressed by the whole tone of the process. Everyone was treated as a valuable asset. There were some girls high school softball teams there to volunteer. There were old people like me--and LOTS of young people who probably unable to get/keep a full-time job.
The presenter was energetic and positive. I had never been in a place like that for that reason. I felt sad to tell the man who offered me (and Nathan--before he got his full-time job) a job--after only a few moments talking with me--that I wouldn't be able to work. Did that make sense?
It has been forever since I've applied for anything new to me, I felt like I'd gotten an education in a place and about a thing that I would never have anticipated. It was an unusual experience.
One of the most memorable bits of the night was when the presenter cautioned the workers that there were there to make the experience as wonderful for the customers the best that it could be--so if a ball was popped up near any of the workers--they were to find a child who was there and give it to them. After all, wouldn't that make anyone's day at a baseball game?
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