So this new job... well, for a while now I've been tempted by the idea of getting involved in a "turn around". This is basically what private equity groups do. They buy a distressed business for relatively cheap and then over a horizon of roughly five years, they turn it around, make it profitable and then sell it for a profit.
So I got my wish... except I never imagined I'd be putting my MBA to work by cleaning out an office.
Well - they guy who had my office before me was a total packrat. He kept ever fax he sent - ever! In hard copy! I have emptied a 55 gallon trash can 9 times with crap from my office... look...
Well - they guy who had my office before me was a total packrat. He kept ever fax he sent - ever! In hard copy! I have emptied a 55 gallon trash can 9 times with crap from my office... look...
Note the trash can in lower right...
Fax machine in the corner has "been dead for a while"...
I suppose someone used these chairs once... I think
This was the kicker...
Ohhh, that's where I left my travel charger....
Poor little roach crawled into the box and couldn't get out...
note the sculpted are in the lid where he tried to gnaw his way to freedom...Oh, did I throw the little roach out in the trash you ask? Nah - I left him on my bosses desk... he deserved it.
