THE INTRODUCTION TO MY NEW JOB REMINDED me of a cartoon about interviewing from college:The boss hands a clipboard to a dazed just-graduated engineer and sneers,"Don't screw up or you're fired! That's the end of orientation,now get to work!"At the time,I already had 10 years of experience in engineering."So,I'm just supposed to wander around until I figure out something to do?,"I asked myself.That's what I actually did,developing a shopping list of potential plant improvement projects and ideas management didn't ask for.They eventually picked two of them,which,as I had detailed,were real moneymakers.
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