There are a lot of godawful factory jobs in America, and do
you know why? The fucking middle
man. Middle men ruin everything. They ruin movies, with their foul
previews. They ruin business deals, with
their ten percents. They ruin drug
exchanges by getting greedy and making things go awry. But most of all, more than anything else, they
ruin workplaces by managing them poorly.
Not you.
You're Wolfgang. You
run a chocolate factory.
"Hallo!" you'll shout at two employees making out
with one another as you walk in the door early this morning.
They'll both turn bright red and pretend to go back to work,
but you'll wait, poised delicately just behind a chocolate vat, until they
think you're gone so that you can watch them get back to making out. You'll
smile and chuckle to yourself, muttering about how "Wolfgang has done it
again," which won't really make sense in context, but will be super
endearing, so we won't judge you for it.
Later on that day, when you're filling out time sheets,
you'll fill in "making out" in the space where those employees
claimed they were inspecting chocolate vat seals. When you show that time sheet to your
supervisor, he'll insist that you reprimand those employees and assign them to
different wings of the factory to insure no further workplace fraternization
occurs. You'll stand up, slam your fist
on the table, and shout at him:
"NIEN! I am a
manager of love, a manager who does not merely make a product, but a process
that makes a product. So long as those
lovers love, their chocolate, it will be delicious, it will be delightful, and
it will be perfect. So I will do no such
thing until their love sours, and in its souring, it begins to damn the
chocolate, for you cannot make chocolate without that most fundamental
ingredient."
You'll pause for dramatic effect.
"Love."
Your supervisor will start to cry, and you'll stand up, walk
across the desk, and embrace him, patting him on the back, making soothing
noises. He will not contest your
decisions any further, at least not that day.
Congratulations Chocolate Factory Wolfgang!
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