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Wait until I tell you what happened today!
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So my manager clapped his hands and asked me what I was going to do to generate our cost savings for the coming year....
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Panic started to set in! I had to be cool......stay calm Tim I said to myself, stay calm....
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Not the nervous laugh....please not the nervous laugh....
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Who am I kidding....... I could only laugh in panic
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It's true.....
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I didn't have a clue what I was gonna do!
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I didn't know how to tell him I didn't know where to start!!!
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Where was I gonna start, what was I gonna do....
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The nervous laughing just wouldn't stop!!!
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Our whole team was relying on our cost savings for the year....... and I wasn't sure where even to start????
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The more I racked my brains the worse it got....I couldn't stop!!
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It's true...
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So Gerry's picking me up off the floor thinking I've lost my mind....
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I'll be fired for sure I thought....
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I imagined my desk being cleared and a suit case in my right hand going out the gate!!!
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But then it hit me.....Value stream map training I recieved in Washington last year!!!
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The nervous laugh wouldn't stop but that was what I was going to do!
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Could I pull it off????
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Keep laughing I said he'll take pity on you I said to myself
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OK Gerry....here's what we're gonna do!
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It's true....
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We're gonna do a Value stream map of ostomy identifying cost saving projects for 2016 and 2017!!!
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It's gonna identify projects and waste reduction opportunities!!!!
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If I could only stop laughing I could sell it to him!!!!!
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If I don't stop laughing theres gonna be an accident!!!!
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So my plan was set. I was going to do valuestream map of part of the ostomy area!
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I was gonna get my team together and we were gonna go for it!
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Sorry bad cough!!
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You ok Gerry I said?
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He had started to laugh as as hard as I was at that stage
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He truly thought I was madman with a good idea at that stage so said go ahead!!