[stomachmonkey]

We used to spend 50 weeks a year planning for a trade show that took us 1 week on site to build that was only open to the public for 2.5 days.

The last month before were typically 7 days a week in the office.

The week of onsite setup was grueling to say the least"

So one year, after the show HR gets the key players together. They want us to put on a "mini show" for the employees who don't get the "priviledge" of going to the show.

Dead silence from the group. So I looked at HR and said, "Fine, we'll charter buses and pick everyone up at their houses at 4:30 in the morning. We'll drive them around for 10 hours. They'll get the flavor of the plane ride. Then we'll drop them at a hot dirty warehouse and have them move and unpack boxes for a couple of days. We'll make them sleep during the day so they experience what the time difference does to their sleep pattern and will feed them crap food the whole time. Then we'll make them stack shelves in a supermarket for a couple more days and finish it off with 3 days of standing on their feet while the same song loops every 3.5 minutes. For the full affect we'll hire people to eat garlic and then close talk them. etc... etc...

The HR woman started to give me s**t about my attitude. I cut her off and said, "If you had half a clue what was involved with this show you'd know damn well that it's not a party, it's WORK, HARD WORK and they had a lot of balls asking those of us who just finished it to do it again so others don't fell "left out".