...Another Reason why Accounting is Downright DANGEROUS!!!!!
My very first inventory audit was of a frozen food warehouse. I was very young, fresh out of college, and had only been with the Firm for a couple months. The Partner told me to dress very warmly for the job.
I was excited when the carload of us beancounters arrived at the warehouse...IT WAS HUGE!
The senior associate, who was in charge, told me that he would take me in with him, first, since we would do the inventory in shifts. I didn't understand, I figured that all 4 of us would just go in and count whatever was in there...boy...WAS I WRONG!!
The warehouse foreman had parkas for us to put on, and thick mittens. We walked into the warehouse...and it was COLD!! All of the vegetables were frozen. The senior associate explained to me that we needed to count the huge boxes of frozen vegetables that were on racks, that almost REACHED THE CEILING!!!
I asked him how we could do that, and two warehousemen drove up in large forklifts, that had pallets placed on the forks. He climbed onto one pallet...and I climbed up on the other. The men then drove the forklifts to the racks, and slowly raised them up.
I quickly counted the boxes, and noted what was in them, and then shouted, "OK, lower me"...and the driver lowered the fork, and drove a few yards along the rack, and started raising the fork again. The senior partner shouted at me, "No, stay on the pallet when you finish, and have the driver go to the next section, and count them as he lowers the fork...it goes faster that way." I shouted back, "OK".
We were both only able to count for about 30 minutes before we were shaking with cold, and the drivers took us back to the door, and we handed the parkas and mittens to the other two beancounters, and sat and warmed up,
Towards the end of the day, I groaned with pain when I saw the other woman handing the parka and gloves to me.
Accounting has no physical hazards?
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