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October 14, 2005
Wheels
Tonight I advanced another step in my plot for world domination, driving the golf cart at work. It wasn't my idea, in fact I was resistant at first, our floors can be quite slippery, and I've seen the forklifts unable to get traction at times. All I need is to take out a stack of tubs full of parts, smack into a bunch of coils of steel or get t-boned by a forklift in the supervisors cart, I'd never live it down. But, my supervisor was insistant that driving to QC all night long was the only hope for decent production on my job (I made 18 trips to the QC lab in 10 hours). Once a member of "Team Them" uses the "P" word all argument ceases, I was stuck.
With much trepidation I slid into the drivers seat, the supervisor indicated which pedal was the "gas" and which was the brake (I soon learned it was not a real brake, but more of an "eject button"). I touched the accelerator and the thing lurched forward a few feet. My supervisor was beaming, training complete. After a few trips trying different routes (all requiring planning so as to avoid having to reverse the cart, that module was somehow excluded from my training session), I settled on one that kept me out of the way of forklift traffic and pedestrians as much as possible. By the end of the shift, I had it mastered.
Next stop in my plan to take over the universe, forklift drivers ed ;).
Posted by Anna at October 14, 2005 3:49 AM
Comments
Thank god your confined to the plant. God help us all.
Posted by: curious_george at October 19, 2005 4:21 AM