CONFESSIONS OF A TOOTHPICK EMPLOYEEHarmon wanted to end it all today, to throw himself upon a bed of upright toothpicks located in Section C, which were awaiting review by the Scrutiny Team, but I was able to talk him out of it. I appealed to his sense of team outrage if he went through with his plans, telling him that the work load would shift down the line on all the belts, causing undue hardship for everyone involved and that toothpick production would fall off dramatically, affecting everyone. We would no longer be able to meet our quotas, which would cause issues with the Company. This crazy path toward self-destruction, I told him, would lead nowhere. Would he really wish to place this kind of stigma upon the surviving members of his family? It was even possible that a number of toot
