As I was creeping along this morning in the never-ending
Starbucks drive-thru, treating myself for a good workout at the gym, I passed this
Jimmy John’s Go-Getters Hiring sign. I
amazed myself as my senior brain reached deep within its depths to retrieve an
old fifty-year memory. I was a young
Industrial Engineer making one of my first visits to a remote production plant
deep within the country.
I had just observed a news report on one of the Fitness
Center televisions that there are now ten million job openings in this country
that have gone wanting, as many folks are content to still rely on government
handouts. Paying people not to work is
just fine until you run out of the working folks’ money and/or you need to stop
printing money that devalues what’s already in circulation.
I remembered arriving from Kansas City at quitting time and
was amazed at the line of cars that was picking up the mostly female
workers. It was reminiscent of the vehicle
lines that gather at the end of a school day.
I incredulously asked the manager what was going on? He matter-of-factly said “Why, all of these guys
are Go-Getters.” He could see that I
didn’t get it, so he explained it in simple terms for me. “Well, you see, right now most of these guys
have probably spent a good part of their day deer hunting. And they drop off their women at the
beginning of the shift and then “go get ‘er” in the afternoon!”
I don’t think these are the kind of Go-Getters that Jimmy
John’s has in mind unless they’re in the drive-thru getting a sandwich.
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