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Originally posted by stomachmonkey
One of the few times I got myself in hot water for shooting off my mouth was with HR.
We did this yearly trade show. My booth occupied 12,000 sq. feet and was 2 stories high. It's a big mofo. We spend 50 weeks a year planning the thing and spend a week setting it up, all for a 3 day show.
Anyway, we get back one year and they call me, the Marketing VP and my counterpart from logistics.
"We would like you to put together a "mini" e3 for the employees that don't have the priviledge to go to the show so they can experience it as well"
I look around the table and the other 2 are as dumb struck as I am.
I respond, "If you had half a clue what went into this you would have put a stop to it before you spoke to us but OK fine, 1st we need to work them 18-20 hours a day 6-7 days a week for a month. Then we'll pick them up at 5 in the morning and drive them around on a bus for the next 8 hours. We'll drop em at a hotel and give them 10 minutes to take their stuff to their rooms. Then we'll hustle them off to a cavernous, hot, dirty place and make them do physical labor for 12-14 hours a day for 4-5 days. Then comes the easy part. We'll make them stand in uncomfortable shoes for another 3 days repeating the same stuff over and over to the endless stream of people with bad breath.
The "last day" of the show we'll hustle them straight from the convention center and stick em on a redeye for the flight home".
My counterparts burst out laughing. The HR chick went ballistic.
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+1 I do the trade shows for our company, HR thinks we are eating steak/lobster, renting big cars and chasing ladies the whole time.