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Ya Can't Take The Mom and Pop Outta The Shop

Our company is trying to take the step from "small business" to "medium - to large" company. In the last year, we've moved from and eight thousand square foot rental office to purchasing a thirty two thousand sqare foot office building. Thats no Microsoft, but considering this thing litterally started in someones garage. It's pretty amazing. It's also the reason that I'm still working here. I could probably make a little more money elsewhere, but I think I'm in on the ground floor of something that could, and has, really start taking off.

But I digress, for whatever reason, the Land Survey business attracts (at least for the field work) an interesting type of individual. To put it blunty, most are drunks and druggies. Hey, I ain't throwing stones in a glass house here, I don't do it at work. Until today, that is.

The owner of the company started in the field. They drank a lot before, during, and after work. As the company grew, the right business people were put into place and this practice went away. Well the owner decided it's been too long since we had a work party. Not an after work party, a work party. Twenty cases of beer were brougt in at noon. People were drunk by two. At 4:30 I was comfortably numb, surfing the web, drinking a beer and getting paid. Having only corporate jobs before this, I still can't grasp it. I'm just happy the Exchange server didn't crash.

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