The good news: I sold the wind deflector off of the BMW Z4 that went back to the dealer from a lease.
Ebay does it again.
The bad news: I needed a box that was roughly 24″L x 16″W x 4″D to ship the item to the winner of the auction.
In my box search I stopped into 3 stores. Staples, FedEx/Kinko’s and Home Depot.
During these types of scavenger hunts it’s far too common to run into Minimum Required Employees or MRE’s.
You know the type.
He’s the dude behind the counter with the barely intelligible mono-syllabic answer to your question. He’s not going to look up, stand up, or speak up.
He’ll do the minimum required to get by and get the paycheck.
And, like military MREs, he has a shelf life of about 3 years. That’s how long it will take his boss to find out how much this slug is costing him in business.
Then there are memorable encounters like the one I had with the guy at Home Depot. I did not get his name so call him Stan.
Stan explained that they had moving boxes for sale (too small) or that if I wanted to come at 6 am, when they are completing stocking the shelves, I could look through dozens of boxes (too early).
Stan sensed my “I just need one odd size box, this one time” look of despair.
“Wait here”, he instructed as he made his way into the back room.
Upon his return he held in his hand the perfect box.
“We got lucky”, he said.
What about your employees?
What’s your company’s MRE to Stan ratio?
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