My last trip was the first one that I would say really wasn’t of my choosing. I went to Dallas, TX for some training for Uncle Sherwin.
Dallas is where the training center is for the Southwest Division of SW so, they sent twenty three assistant managers to sit in a classroom for a week and drink a few cases of Dr. Pepper.
It was actually pretty interesting and I learned some interesting stuff about the company and the way we’re supposed to do our jobs. For example, I found out it’s a bad idea to put a chair on a pallet, have an employee sit in the chair, then raise that pallet up about twelve feet into the air with the forklift and drive around, having the employee in the air counting product to do inventory. And less death defying stuff like Sherwin Williams recycles it’s waste water from the manufacturing of paint. We also got to tour the Garland Emulsion Plant and see the largest paint manufacturing facility in the U.S. which was cool to see. I can now say I’ve seen 5,000 gallons of paint being mixed at once. No pictures of that though since we weren’t allowed to take our cameras or cell phones in with us. One night I also went downtown Dallas cause I figured I can’t say I’ve been to Dallas if I actually spend all my time in Garland and Richardson.
I went downtown on Valentine’s day which happened to be the night that the museum was open late and free. Bonus. So that’s about all I did downtown, just check out the museum, which was pretty alright, and ride their light rail to and from the hotel.
All in all it was a pretty good trip and hopefully it made me into some sort of Super Assistant Manager so I can get a big fat bonus at the end of the year. Probably not though, I think I just learned a whole bunch of things that you can get fired for.
Here’s the training class before we went into the emulsion plant. Pretty sweet lab coats huh?