Ah yes… The new year. Businesses also make resolutions. Usually to save money. Can’t fire any more people – everyone knows that corporations do that just before Christmas anyway so that’ll have to wait another 11 months. So, cut spending! Yeah… cut spending. It’s a one to one ratio – every dollar you don’t spend is a dollar you still have! Really, this is a big concept to middle manager types – the equivalent to chaos theory or hyper threading technology. If you don’t know what those last two things are, don’t worry, it doesn’t mean you are a middle manager. After all, you can read.
So, I’m walking through the warehouse – we’re a shipping facility, remember this because it’s important – and I stumble upon a rather large pile of empty tape guns. Huh? Did they all break at the same time? I look around and see an employee searching shelves and drawers and I ask what’s up. They tell me they are looking for a tape gun, to which I reply that there is a rather large (now somewhat scattered) stack that I just stumbled over. She tells me she’s searching for a gun with tape in it – because, and bring back to your mind what I told you to remember earlier – because we’re not buying any more tape. We go through too much and it’s expensive.
Thank God we’re not a medical facility.