Trade As One

Some days you get to work, and you can’t believe how effective you are, and it seems like you get a whole day’s work done before noon. Yesterday was not one of those days. We arrived at the warehouse at 7am to find a thin layer of water gracing the floor of parts of of our warehouse. Amazingly (and thanks to some foresight from Mike, who runs our warehouse), none of the products were damaged in any way. The only casualties were a few cardboard boxes.

So it quickly became a game of “who’s got the best idea for removing 70 gallons of water from our warehouse.” Everybody was involved, from Nathan, Stu, Mike, Leo, Kevin, our landlord, our neighbors..it was a family affair. We were bailing, sweeping, jury-rigging a shopvac to empty into a garbage can (didn’t work), and sump pumping it out. The best part was that the founders of Handmade Expressions, dear friends of ours, decided they would surprise us and stop by to see the warehouse for the first time.

All in all I’d say it made for a good Wednesday, and that it was fun to see everybody jump in with a smile to fix a problem.