Today was Bring Your Child to Work Day. Very first thing I did today, started the day off right, was when the boss brought his kid over to introduce him to the maintenance gang. The previous shift had left me a project, some piece off a machine that runs soluble oil coolant. Neat thing about soluble oil is that when it sits for a long time, it gets incredibly rank. Think rotting KFC coleslaw. Boss comes over, introduces his kid, and I bust out the part.
"Smell this." The kid dutifully leans over and gets a big whiff of the stuff. It made my morning a little brighter.
People should not allow me near their children at work. I fought back terrible urges. Like wanting to walk up to some big shot's kid and saying, "It's okay, we all think your dad is a douche bag, too." Going up to an employee's son and telling him how half the plant would like a shot at making a brother for him. Or asking someone's offspring, "Is it genetic or does your whole family eat too much?"
But I refrained. Except for sharing the foul odor with the boss's kid. I totally did that. And I did ask one of the machinists if being this close to minors was a violation of his restraining order.
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