Perks of the job, numero tres
So my job is as perky as ... no, wait, that kind of beginning will just lead us in a completely wrong direction. Let’s try again. While the life of an intern is far from glamorous, the employer realizes this and tries to bedazzle and distract the white collar equivalent of a sweat shop laborer by showing him many a shiny object. We’re started off easy by being shown a giant goblet and then driving around in zero-radius circles before finally reaching the pinnacle of the internship: construction machinery.
The conclusion of last week’s Management Rotational Program conference occurred at a test facility for the Construction & Forestry division. There’s not much more to say beyond “I drove a lot of very big, expensive machines” and “the kids with their plastic Tonkas have nothing on me now!” so I will let the next few thousand words come from the pictures.
Me +
a big pile of dirt +
a front loader = being like a kid again.
I also got to operate (among many other pieces of equipment):
The day ended with clean up:
Score
Mike: 1 - what, did you not see the pictures?
Other interns: 1 - they were there too
The dirt: 0 - ha, take that immobile land mass!
Comments
mikey,
this looks so much more fun than cubicles, excel, meetings, and 3x daily runs to sbux! looks like you're having a good time. i can't wait for school to start up again - i miss my 3-stripes (and the peeps).
Posted by: the dirty canuck | August 2, 2006 10:55 PM
Whoah! They actually let you operate heavy machinery? You?! My, my what trusting folks these dear (deere?) people are...
Score: Mike: 1 for successfully fooling big corpo
Big corpo : 0 for needlessly endangering innocent bystanders/farmers/other interns/dirt (?!)
Posted by: cynicalromantic | August 3, 2006 09:37 PM