He leaven his bridge player to just above his head : " Two meters leg summit used to be high , but nowadays six m is already common . "
Piet Rensen will be with Peter Dekker Installaties for thirty years next year and will celebrate his sixty-fifth birthday on July 18 . This bring in the retirement age close , although Piet thinks work on is still far too pleasant . “ I became a part of this menage byplay and I would miss it . I therefore go for to ( be allowed to ) ' stay put around ' as long as possible , although I certainly do not desire to get in the room . ”
Never " no"Piet is doing this ' staying around ' today as organizer of the service and preparation department at the Naaldwijk bureau , where he is now trying to transfer the tricks of the business deal to his two successors . Both young men sometimes have trouble with him ' being expansive ' and sometimes with his jolly unmediated fashion of communicating , but at the same metre they still can learn a lot from the flexible handling of sudden changing circumstances .
" In my view , the current generation sometimes says ' no ' too quickly when the planning is already done and then all of a sudden something else has to be done differently . We never say ' no ' . When Peter Dekker senior called me during the weekend with ' just go to Munich ' for a breakdown , we belong immediately . Not always fun for the family … but you just did it . ”
ErysipelasThat said , Piet has gradually come to realize that he has to take it ' a moment more slowly ' . “ I am certainly not yet complete here , although I have gradually begin to work less . This year four sidereal day a week and next year I will get two days a calendar week off and so I will be ' on the job ' for three days . And when I officially can move back , exactly 16 calendar month from now , coincidentally just as long as my US Army duty , I trust to be capable to keep working for two days . ”
Piet has hardly been sick in all those year , where he started as a subcontractor , became a mechanic , later a declarer and now as an organizer at the office . " I have had erysipelas before , but with a patch on my leg , I ' just ' get to workplace . I do not think that I have been sick for more than ten days during those thirty years . ”
10 by 6It all started at PDI for Piet when he , together with Peter Dekker fourth-year and Piet van Heuveln , moved into a shed measuring 10 by 6 meters in De Lier . “ We did some tinkering there and installed screen initiation in really small glasshouse . by and by , the nursery just became self-aggrandizing and bigger , although ' my largest nursery ' has never been much larger than four hectares . That was at the Voskamp Brothers in De Lier , in the late 1990s . Machines were much less used then , it was much more mounting and scrambling . ”
From left to right wing : Perry Rensen ( unseasoned Logos of Piet ) , Jan Olsthoorn junior , Rob Groeneweg , Niko Hoogeveen , Peter Dekker senior , Piet Rensen and his eldest son Stephan .
handgun at the pizza placePiet ’s working field as a grease monkey and contractile organ was not limited to the Netherlands . Once he went with Peter Dekker elderly to Brazil , to the horticultural region of Holambra , in the late 1990s . “ That was telling to see , specially how the citizenry lived there . I have never been that far aside again . ”
Over the years , he often went to Belgium , Germany , Switzerland , France and even for a while in southerly Italy . Such journeying bring on beautiful stories , tall stories as befits horticulture . Stories to tell during a deep brown break . “ There was a time when we did quite a few projection in Calabria , in southerly Italy .
" During the day it was very hard working in the high temperature , but in the eventide there was often meter for rest . For example , once we were with ten guy in a pizza place and we were a bit noisy . Not rare among military personnel . However , the chef could not really apprize it and at a certain second he pulled a gun from under his proscenium . It ended well , but you do not forget such things . ”
' World Cup’Also a breakdown with a Deux Chevaux on a slope in southerly Germany on the way to a political party - “ How we managed to get back , I do not call back ” - and Piet can still recall a knocked over ' World Cup ' well . “ That cup , as I now facetiously call it , was in reality a very expensive flower vase that I knocked over on placement at the time . The hurt , 1500 Deutsche Mark I believe , I have by rights settled and I take on the cup home plate . alas , I just do n’t remember where the cupful is any longer . ”
The events outside working hours may have move over wonderful tale , but they worked hard as well . And sometimes also things went improper . “ I had an accident with welding twice . Once a large piece of bubble wrapping caught fire at a raiser after I did the welding . In the relatively small greenhouses at the time , that was quite something , but although you did not want it to happen , it sometimes did . today that might get you into serious problems , back then it was well-to-do to solve . Another flaming , again after welding , in a boiler mansion , as luck would have it did not have serious consequences . ”
ComputersWhen Piet , after the move to the new PDI office building on the Industriestraat in Naaldwijk about twelve years ago , commute to an office function , he ab initio feared for ' ferment in his body ' . “ Of course , because I used to be outside a lot and always busy . Still , it has gone better than expected . During ' propel in spite of appearance ' I watch a lot from my colleague René de Koning . I never developed a liking for computers . I limit myself to what is necessary , but to follow the fast young boy here in this country is not easy . But that does not count . ”
Piet ’s sometime work correctly next to the storage warehouse has now been taken over by one of his two successor . " It is ripe that he is sit down here now for the issuance of receipts , etc . "
codification 95Every Friday Piet follows the young men , or the new man follow Piet , to the regular snack bar in Naaldwijk . In the center of town they use up a greasy snack . Tradition . Triumphantly Piet crap contactless payments . “ Yes , do you see that , I can do that , that New stuff ” , Piet laugh softly .
He nowadays also has a handy app on his phone . “ This allows me to transport unknown numbers directly to the company , so that I no longer have to work all the time . Known number of unconstipated customers who still have my phone number and which I have in my phone , I often still answer . ”
catch up with steady customer is always smashing . For this intellect , the annual visit to the big greenhouse in Middenmeer also remains . And who know , Piet might sometimes be seen on the truck . “ I lately renewed my Code 95 . With that I can go on for another five geezerhood and I trust to take a ride on our trucks every now and then , although I do not signify to become a gadget driver , ” Piet hastens to say . " Remember , I was get going to slacken down . "
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