An Award for Safety

I’m not a guy who likes to attend meetings, or conferences, or luncheons or dinners after work.

I like to do my job and go home.

Which is why my friends in the safety community - which is a tight-knit group of people who are genuinely concerned with making the industry safe - needed to put in a colossal effort to get me to show up to receive what amounts to a lifetime achievement award for my years of work.

First, they lied to me.

Told me that the award was going to a lifelong friend. 

They also involved Matt and Jake, and then mostly subtly avoided me so they didn’t have to continue to make up stories.

Their cover story was a good one because I had to go watch my decades long friend get an award.

And as another close friend started the introduction, it didn’t take long to figure out that he was talking about my resume.

It’s an odd thing to receive an award because we all live our lives trying to do the best we can (or at least I hope so) and being recognized for it is a little weird.

And it makes one feel old to have all the work days recapped in a short speech, but everyone who had a hand in it did a great job, and I sort of stuttered my way through a thank you.

It’s not over yet!

There are more lives to save, and the crew we have here in Western New York work hard to make a difference in the lives of guys who work very hard.

So, I’m glad that they got me there, and it’s definitely great to be honored by people who do their jobs well.

Back at it tomorrow!