Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

You can’t win a vomiting contest with a buzzard. The attempt will be harmful, too.

Buzzards are professionals when it comes to vomiting. They practice it daily. I can’t beat them at it. You can’t beat them at it.

The trouble is, we think you can. We are educated, smart, capable, and adaptable. We can apply the best processes, measure, adapt, adjust, and beat the buzzards at their own game. We will innovate.

This will be fun. We will show everyone what we can do. No matter what it is, we can do it better. And it might be fun for a while to try it.

Then one day we realize that we have been at this vomiting game a little too long. And then we realize that, well, it isn’t good. We are sick. We have hurt ourselves.

And what’s more, even if we win, we are the best vomit-er on planet earth. Wow! What does that trophy look like, anyways?