A funny thing happened at the end of the week...
We are going hot and heavy. Everyone is going balls to the wall because next week we are shut down. Down hard. Outside contractors will dismantle and move all of my machinery into the new building next week.
So with everyone running around, and in high spirits too, mind you, I was as well. A lot of work is going into this and given our primary customer, the DoD, everyone is primed to get back at it as soon as possible.
Soo, on our last week it is a circus, people literally running around and me too.
Let me put a visual in your head first. Do you remember the Tom & Jerry cartoons? Not the Hanna/Barberra ones, but the original Warner Bros. ones? Remember Tom running around the house after Jerry and hitting a patch of water/oil/anythingslippery and just pumping those legs while going nowhere until he just got plastered by the floor?
So I am running back to what used to be my office to grab my phone, through what used to be the cafeteria. A quick couple of dogleg turns. I'm in the middle of the first turn and realize that all the carpet and tile are pulled up. Hey! It's a bare concrete slab. No. It's not bare. It has tile glue slathered all over it. I do my Tom & Jerry impression, legs pumping like crazy, in front of the tile-layers, who have just prepped the room, till I go down, and go down hard.
The tile-layers are beside themselves. My first visual of them was an explosion of amusement as I went down, turned to an 'Oh, -F---' kind of stare as they realized that my reporting this little fiasco could put them in hock.
Of course my first concern, beside the pain, was that I just effed up these poor guy's job. So after slipping and sliding back to the threshold to dry ground, I grabbed a trowel and started repairing the damage I did with my Christie Yamaguchi impression. They were more amazed at this than the fall itself..
So with everyone running around, and in high spirits too, mind you, I was as well. A lot of work is going into this and given our primary customer, the DoD, everyone is primed to get back at it as soon as possible.
Soo, on our last week it is a circus, people literally running around and me too.
Let me put a visual in your head first. Do you remember the Tom & Jerry cartoons? Not the Hanna/Barberra ones, but the original Warner Bros. ones? Remember Tom running around the house after Jerry and hitting a patch of water/oil/anythingslippery and just pumping those legs while going nowhere until he just got plastered by the floor?
So I am running back to what used to be my office to grab my phone, through what used to be the cafeteria. A quick couple of dogleg turns. I'm in the middle of the first turn and realize that all the carpet and tile are pulled up. Hey! It's a bare concrete slab. No. It's not bare. It has tile glue slathered all over it. I do my Tom & Jerry impression, legs pumping like crazy, in front of the tile-layers, who have just prepped the room, till I go down, and go down hard.
The tile-layers are beside themselves. My first visual of them was an explosion of amusement as I went down, turned to an 'Oh, -F---' kind of stare as they realized that my reporting this little fiasco could put them in hock.
Of course my first concern, beside the pain, was that I just effed up these poor guy's job. So after slipping and sliding back to the threshold to dry ground, I grabbed a trowel and started repairing the damage I did with my Christie Yamaguchi impression. They were more amazed at this than the fall itself..
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