So here is how corporate American 3rd grade works. And for the record, I have had a lot of jobs so I know this is not abnormal.
Wed we got a box representing a shipping container and a bunch of crap that we have to pack.
Winner is the team whose box has the best container design and most meticulous adherence to the international shipping regs. It also has to pass a shake test.
Items we had to pack included
- Cigarette lighter
- Can of potted meat
- Cheetos
- bottle of Scope
- 2 batteries
- box of crayons
- Light bulbs
- 3 Christmas tree bulbs
- some other nonsense I cannot recall
The contents had to be packed in such a way as to prevent a fuel source being next to an ignition source and HazMat (lighter) cannot be closer than 8.5 feet from consumables which in our scale container is 2.7 inches
They shake the box to simulate transport on a truck, train, and vessel
Based on the packing, style, and survivability, the winner gets. Well, they get an email stating that their team won.
This is what corporate America is doing. 30+ 6 figure employees at a publicly held company, 465 million dollars in debt acting like kids and all getting bonuses this quarter because we are losing less money than last year at this time.
This is why the terrorists hate us.
That was yesterday. Today I worked from home which means in addition to writing "as the propeller turns" (love that title), I got 5 vessels built in our system that as I type this are in Dutch Harbor, San Juan, and Honolulu working.
Had I been in the office, I would have been having chair races around some sort of paper mache(sp) pylons decorated earlier in the week.
At any rate, my family benefits greatly from this system but like every system, it is flawed beyond repair. So even though I screw off on here a lot, I went up to the office at 9PM to get some paper work I need for tomorrow. Working from home may get a bad rap but the people at the office were having a dance off while the people at home were doing some work.