The Side Effects of Endorphins

Pitchfork Operator

I worked in a beer, can factory, and on my first day there they asked me to shovel up a mountain of scrap metal. I did this for 8 hours and still had three hours left in my shift. A worker there walked up to me and said I’m working too fast.

Inventory Ice Cream Accountant

I used to travel the United States doing the physical inventory for Godiva chocolate. All the inventory was in freezers. You could go in the freezer for 15 minutes. Each subsequent visit was less and less until you could only count for 30 seconds. It all got done.

Mergers And Acquisitions

I headed up a project for a major company. We were buying out a manufacturing firm in Germany. I started the meeting in German and they never switched back. My minutes for that meeting kind of sucked.

Long Hours

I worked another acquisition for a printing company and we worked long hours. After the project was over, my boss called me into his office and said he was gonna give us a big reward for doing the project. I got a snow scraper with a Xerox label.

It’s all in a days work.