Posted on 06/21/2004 10:03:12 AM PDT by rface
Many years ago,for the summer, I was an inspector in a greeting card company.
It was a long,flat roof,one floor building and there was no air conditioning.I was never so hot in my life.
I lasted the entire summer and never forgot it.
You just gave me a nightmarish flashback! I had blocked it out! Now, I am in the corner in a fetal position crying "Mama...Mama..."
Stay safe !
Everyone should have to do hard, menial labor for marginal pay to make them appreciate a really good job.
Stifler, is that you?
I wish.
This lad gets it.
Absolutely. I'm a systems engineer and project manager. I hate my job, but gotta do it. The worst day doing this is better than the days when I had to scrub grills, clean bathrooms, pump gas, or serve food at the ballpark stadium. I never look down my nose at low-salaried workers, I respect them for doing a job they have to do in order to survive. There's some high-paid whiners in the office who never did "real" work and I don't respect them.
OMG that was funny!
Proof reading?
Then you get out get some schooling, spend 10 or 15 years getting really good at what you do and never work again, just show up every day and have answers, closest I ever came to stealing money.
A very important principle that holds true in American Business all the way through the CEO level
Until something goes wrong. Then you have to work your a$$ off to make it look like someone else's fault.
Shalom.
We were inspecting for printing flaws. The color would often not be where it should be,but slightly off to the side.
It was hysterical and quite an eye opener for me.Some of those people did this as a full time job and I couldn't imagine it,but they were a good bunch and treated me well.
In the heat the glitter from the cards would get all over our sweaty faces. I received lots of strange looks when I got on the bus to go home. I was "glowing".
Yup. When I'm getting interviewed and the ever popular "how do you handle stress" question comes up I have the same answer every time: there's nothing in the software industry as stressful as being the only guy in the grill area when the entire Catalina High School football team comes in after practice. Compared to those days what I do now can barely even be called work, forget stress.
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