skd_mrk
TD Admin
I decided to share one of my more embarrassing moments with you all and I hope you will do the same:
I've worked for the same company, a large grocery chain, for 14 years now starting just two weeks after my 16th birthday. I started out working in a store bagging before moving into produce, dairy, etc. Shortly after college I interviewed and received a job offer working for corporate in IT. Now the thing you have to know about the grocery industry is that it operates on REALLY low margins. This is relevant to the story because you have to understand the building we had to work in. There were frequent blackouts due to greater energy demand than the building could support, conference rooms turned into offices for lack of space, and lastly closets turned into conference rooms because the conference rooms had turned into offices.
Well my co-workers from the store threw me a going away party a couple of weeks after I left (I can't remember the reason for the delay) and they also threw it on a week night. So I stayed up until 12 am just pounding drinks back (seldom been so drunk) and had to be driven to my friends house until I sobered up. I think I finally got back home around 2 am......and had to leave for work by 5 am to make it to the office by 7am (very bad commute, plus mass transportation). Ended up making it to work feeling pretty good and alert all things considered due to mass quantities of Sobe Adrenaline Rush.
Well it just so happened that I got pulled into a last minute meeting with Dell. They were trying to sell us both hardware and IT services. We managed to find a conference room in which the table took up the majority of the space in the room. You had to go into the room single file because after sitting down in a chair no one could fit behind you (no exaggeration...it was that tight). So we have about 10 people crammed into this tiny room in the middle of the summer. Well it got sweltering hot (outside of the building is aluminum panels = heat trap in summer) and I found myself starting to do the head nod that you get when you're really tired. After an hour I'm doing anything I can think of to stay awake...pinching my fingers in between the chair and table, drawing on some paper anything, finally I did one huge nod AND.....my head thumped on the wall behind me.
Suffice to say everyone heard it and knew what had happened.
I've worked for the same company, a large grocery chain, for 14 years now starting just two weeks after my 16th birthday. I started out working in a store bagging before moving into produce, dairy, etc. Shortly after college I interviewed and received a job offer working for corporate in IT. Now the thing you have to know about the grocery industry is that it operates on REALLY low margins. This is relevant to the story because you have to understand the building we had to work in. There were frequent blackouts due to greater energy demand than the building could support, conference rooms turned into offices for lack of space, and lastly closets turned into conference rooms because the conference rooms had turned into offices.
Well my co-workers from the store threw me a going away party a couple of weeks after I left (I can't remember the reason for the delay) and they also threw it on a week night. So I stayed up until 12 am just pounding drinks back (seldom been so drunk) and had to be driven to my friends house until I sobered up. I think I finally got back home around 2 am......and had to leave for work by 5 am to make it to the office by 7am (very bad commute, plus mass transportation). Ended up making it to work feeling pretty good and alert all things considered due to mass quantities of Sobe Adrenaline Rush.
Well it just so happened that I got pulled into a last minute meeting with Dell. They were trying to sell us both hardware and IT services. We managed to find a conference room in which the table took up the majority of the space in the room. You had to go into the room single file because after sitting down in a chair no one could fit behind you (no exaggeration...it was that tight). So we have about 10 people crammed into this tiny room in the middle of the summer. Well it got sweltering hot (outside of the building is aluminum panels = heat trap in summer) and I found myself starting to do the head nod that you get when you're really tired. After an hour I'm doing anything I can think of to stay awake...pinching my fingers in between the chair and table, drawing on some paper anything, finally I did one huge nod AND.....my head thumped on the wall behind me.
Suffice to say everyone heard it and knew what had happened.
