Rack ’Em!, Paper360º January/February 2020

Sometime in the late 1980s, I worked with a large pulp and paper mill in Mobile, Alabama. As usual, I was viewed as the consultant, wearing a shirt and tie, carrying a briefcase, and for me, speaking with a foreign accent—I was typecast. After nearly 20 years in the consultant role, I knew the mumblings amongst the craftspeople. “What does he know?” and “The roughest part of his workday is probably when he gets a paper cut.

”So, when one of the supervisors asked me to have a few beers with him and some mill-wrights after work one day, I accepted. It was an excellent opportunity to get to know them better. After all, it was they who would carry out the work I would recommend after I fin-ished my audit. I could tell they were looking for a rouse, and they exchanged glances as if saying to each other, “Let’s take him to a real rough place!”

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