Paint 🎨 from Back of a Van

Engineering Experiences & Stories

Well it’s have a laugh Friday.

We just got a contract from a Japanese 🇯🇵 corporate to do mods to their injection mould tools and we got the nod that the emperor of the business was coming to UK 🇬🇧.

We thought, from our small startup unit, in a court yard with other startups, we would paint 🎨 before his visit.

Around comes the opportunistic ‘white van man’ with gallons of grey paint. We paint the floor the night before the big visit.

The morning after, it’s not gone off and his on his way!

Lucky for use, we had a trail-bike dealer who had empty cardboard boxes, Made in Japan 🇯🇵 Yamaha Boxes! The irony was not in play, but the emperor, like the Queen, is used to seeing the effort and the smell of fresh paint.

The white van boys had a field day in the court yard that day, as they sold a TV 📺 to a unit a couple doors up. They Bought one, switched-it-on, low and behold, picture but no sound. It was only after a while they discovered that the item had no speaker 🔈 🔊!

The moral:

Engineers stop buying from back of a Van

And all CEOs and Her Majesty, love to see you make an effort.