Francisco Sáenz Catzín, footwear and public accountant, preferred the first of his activities because he considers it “cash”, an office to which he has dedicated forty -four years of life and that he hopes to exercise until the destination is allowed.
Francisco recalled that since the age of nine he began working in Bolero's trade.From Monday to Friday, after leaving class, lunch and doing the homework, he went with his box to the former Aladino cinema;While on Saturdays he went to the seminar, a place to which it was only a period of three years, when Fernando Ruiz Solórzano was Archbishop of Yucatan.There they studied José Rafael Palma Capetillo, who became auxiliary bishop and who was a priest of his family, as well as Jorge Carlos Patron Wong, among other parents who gave their shoes.
He pointed out that, with a scholarship by the late María Cárdenas Berny, he finished the accountant's career and was administrator of the Medical Center of the Southeast for four years, institution of the Union of Truckers, during the time of Raymundo Vargas Cruz, until it closed.
He was then at Loret de Mola's gas station for a year, then worked at the Drinking Water Board and for 15 years he was an accountant and maintenance lead.Finally, he worked for the Hollywood cinemas, where he managed to gather the necessary points to retire.However, he commented that the most important thing is that, throughout all those years, he never left his office of bolero.
He explained that when he finished working at half past five in the afternoon, he grabbed his drawer and went to the Hidalgo Park to clean footwear until nine o'clock at night.Therefore, he thinks that he was cleaning shoes is cash, to the degree that he worked everywhere where he ordered a salary or loan advance, because thanks to the bulletIt lived difficult days, that is, days in which there was no demand, because of its main enemies, which are the rains and during the Holy Holidays, July and August;Out of it, he stressed that his friends or faithful customers have never abandoned him.
Carnival
Francisco pointed out that only during the annual carnival celebration, when it was carried out in the center of Mérida, it was when its bolero's job momentarily changes to sell bolis in front of the old Olympus building, where it dispatched up to 800 bolis.
He pointed out that this was one of the ways through which he could carry out his three children, of which he now has six grandchildren.
He commented that when, due to the pandemic, he had to be locked up, he was getting sick, because he is a person accustomed to work and, as they say in Maya, was Chocnac (restless).He acknowledged that at that time he felt that he did not know what he wanted and only relieved when he could leave and see his friends and people in the main square;Then she understood that that was really what she needed.
He considers that the elderly get sick when their relatives do not allow them to leave, for fear of the infections of COVID-19, but said that if they allowed them to be out there, “I think that when they return to their homes they will do it morehappy, only now by the pandemic the risk that they run is greater, so you have to look for ways to keep them entertaining to prevent the confinement from nursing them ”.
Nobody wants to be a bolero
Sáenz Catzín lamented that today nobody wants to dedicate themselves to that trade, because there are many who ask for an opportunity to work in this way, but “after eight days they renounce and leave when they realize that there is no rest and they think that they leaveTo carry the wool, but it is not so, ”he said.
He revealed that the key to getting ahead is persistence, not missing, giving a friendly treatment to the customer, a good service, even when they arrive annoying;He said that you have to know how.
After almost eight months of not working in the Plaza Grande, many of its clients began to return little by little;That is why there are always three or four pairs of shoes next to their chair, hoping to be shot.
How it became a leader
He explained that, when the Union of Footwear Steators of Mérida had just entered, it went to the Municipal Palace to clean the footwear of a former mayor -whose name could not remember -, so they tried to suspend it, but managed to avoid punishment when the secretary generalFrom his union he asked him for which party he worked and his response was: “Look, I come to work, to keep my family, because when I get home my children do not ask me what party I work or what a graduate, whatThey ask is food and if you suspend me, I demand them ”and from that, many know it as" the rebel ".
With the passage of time, he was elected Secretary General, a position he has held for 25 years, and during all that period he has dedicated himself to defending the rights of the members of the members.
He revealed that since childhood he learned to make the paintings to clean the footwear, there is even one that prepares with avocado seed that combines with other inks.
Finally, he said that ten years ago he put his chair by his chair the "BollerThe dialogues escaped a word in Maya and then the commercial director asked him to teach him some words in that language but to scold his employees.
