During the early months when I first began to work for Amazon at my home-based Locker Hub located inside a Whole Foods Market at Bryant Park, in Manhattan, I literally “smelled” a problem.
Even though Amazon now owned Whole Foods I and other Locker associates weren’t classified as employees working for Whole Foods.
Our compartment was a separate service toward the customers.
Anyhow, I went down to the basement of the Whole Foods Human Resource office for something (I don’t remember what it was) and I smelled this nasty stench filled within the entire office.
I was familiar with the unpleasant odor from unfortunately having to inhale the smell a lot out in public.
The first time I ever smelled this substance I was a preteen. Back at the time I was told by the one smoking the substance (This fully grown Italian man named Stan who was interested in one of my aunts) that it was called a drug named “Hawaiian Cess”.
I don’t know what it’s called nowadays or what is mixed up in it.
These days the smell is worse, and more sickening. It could be partially altered with a combination of Marijuana, Meth, and other things depending on the ones who are distributing it.
Nevertheless, originally it was some type of blunt that gave their users a stronger high than just plain Marijuana.
All I know is that it stinks, it heavily reeks from the user’s pores, the smell lingers in the air, and it is highly popular.
I have smelled this shit for years even in wealthy neighborhoods where I passed through to get to work. It doesn’t matter what race/nationality one is or their economic status- many get zooted/stoned from smoking this drug.
I don’t care what others do; however, I don’t like having to be the receiver of someone else’s second-hand smoke.
The point of my story, is that I mentioned the incident to a female security guard when I was scheduled to work at another Whole Foods Locker Hub location on the upper west side.
Her response was, “A lot of them have to be high to come to work”.
The lady had triggered me to remember how some people just cannot function or cope at work or within their own personal lives without getting high.
I have been aware for years of certain people (including doctors) under the influence of cocaine, heroin, and other lighter recreational drugs.
It’s sad, especially if what they are doing will affect or interfere with a task that could cause risk or danger to another, or one’s environment due to their own negligence.
This circumstance also explains why many (not all) are trouble on the job. Some people’s brains are fried. A lot of individuals minds are on the same level they were at when they began to use drugs.
So, if one started to get high at age thirteen (depending on what they used, how often, and if they’re still using up into adulthood) they will still continue to have the same mindset at the age of fifty, and so on.
