Recently Jane’s right arm had dislocated from her shoulder. She knew immediately that something was very wrong. She had dived into water off a diving board on a boat and that’s when it popped out. The story of how she got it back in was pretty much what one would expect, with a visit to the ER, lots of pulling and thankfully, a good dose of drugs to knock her out. The aftermath was that she sported a fancy sling and was rendered a one-armed roaster.
The point of this blog is to explain, again, a form of redundancy that we practice at Carpe Diem. Since Jane was instructed NOT to lift with that arm, the rest of us had to pinch hit for her. That meant that anyone within a ten-foot proximity was asked to fill two buckets with twenty-five pounds of the raw beans of her choosing and deliver it to the appropriate roaster. Minutes before the roast would begin, she would summon the closest person to climb the ladder to drop the two buckets of beans into the hopper. That maneuver is a little trickier since it involves that ladder and lifting over our heads to deliver the loads. Jane still did all the timing of the roasts, and she could send the roasted beans through the de-stoner, one scoop at a time, using her non-dominant left hand.
Her entire day she spent using her left hand. She said by the end of the day she was exhausted from all the concentration. Think about it, try switching to your non-dominant hand to do all the things you normally don’t even have to think twice about. Meanwhile the rest of us began to sport some pretty impressive guns.
That lifting for an injured co-worker thing is nothing new. Gussie has thrown her back out several times and needed people to lift packages and totes and all manner of weighty things during her recovery. Jane had a knee replacement a few years ago which rendered us down a person for almost two weeks. These absences really make us realize how integral we each are to the functioning of the business. When Gussie is out, Jane has had to step into her shoes. When this occurs, she insists on no music, no laughing and complete silence while she attends to the office work. When Jane is out and Gussie has had to step into Jane’s shoes, it’s pretty much the same thing. No music, no laughing, and a palpable sense of angst on her part. It’s good to know we can cover all the bases but it’s sooooo much more fun when we are all in our proper places.
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Recently Jane’s right arm had dislocated from her shoulder. She knew immediately that something was very wrong. She had dived into water off a diving board on a boat and that’s when it popped out. The story of how she got it back in was pretty much what one would expect, with a visit to the ER, lots of pulling and thankfully, a good dose of drugs to knock her out. The aftermath was that she sported a fancy sling and was rendered a one-armed roaster.
The point of this blog is to explain, again, a form of redundancy that we practice at Carpe Diem. Since Jane was instructed NOT to lift with that arm, the rest of us had to pinch hit for her. That meant that anyone within a ten-foot proximity was asked to fill two buckets with twenty-five pounds of the raw beans of her choosing and deliver it to the appropriate roaster. Minutes before the roast would begin, she would summon the closest person to climb the ladder to drop the two buckets of beans into the hopper. That maneuver is a little trickier since it involves that ladder and lifting over our heads to deliver the loads. Jane still did all the timing of the roasts, and she could send the roasted beans through the de-stoner, one scoop at a time, using her non-dominant left hand.
Her entire day she spent using her left hand. She said by the end of the day she was exhausted from all the concentration. Think about it, try switching to your non-dominant hand to do all the things you normally don’t even have to think twice about. Meanwhile the rest of us began to sport some pretty impressive guns.
That lifting for an injured co-worker thing is nothing new. Gussie has thrown her back out several times and needed people to lift packages and totes and all manner of weighty things during her recovery. Jane had a knee replacement a few years ago which rendered us down a person for almost two weeks. These absences really make us realize how integral we each are to the functioning of the business. When Gussie is out, Jane has had to step into her shoes. When this occurs, she insists on no music, no laughing and complete silence while she attends to the office work. When Jane is out and Gussie has had to step into Jane’s shoes, it’s pretty much the same thing. No music, no laughing, and a palpable sense of angst on her part. It’s good to know we can cover all the bases but it’s sooooo much more fun when we are all in our proper places.