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January 5, 2006
Does Anyone Know?
How to weld platinum???
Ok, I know that's not a normal question, here's the story. Yesterday at work I was having a conversation with the Captain of "Team Them" (Management). I had just informed him that I AM special (leaving the definition of "special" open to interpretation). He didn't think special quite covered it, that I needed something extra. I suggested just an asterisk, simple, almost understated, beautiful. No, that wasn't it, and besides, who would want to be an asterisk? "But, when you see an asterisk, you go looking for the explanation." I argued, "An asterisk with no explanation would drive people bonkers." (I won that point.) Somehow the conversation then turned to a reset button I had to stretch to reach, he suggested I ask the maintenance supervisor to lower the button for me, and was certain if I made the request it would be granted. (Apparently, not everyone in the plant knows that no one listens to me.) I offered the common sense reaction of the maintenance supervisor that I get a stool (and pointed to the one I already had). Oh, but then he would make me my own special steel stool, because if they're going to put me on a pedestal, it should be special. "Well, if that's the case," I said, "I don't want steel, I want platinum." "I don't think he knows how to weld platinum," came the reply.
Posted by Anna at January 5, 2006 2:13 PM