Another many hour mashgiach assignment

I had agreed to work on 19 July beginning 8am. I got a phone call about 10 pm on July 18. I was to come in at 530. There were multiple events honoring Israel's President Herzog. One event set for 19 July had, a week previously, been for 70 guests but it kept increasing and by 10 pm the day before the event the guest list was for 170. This event was sponsorted by AIPAC. It was about a 9 hour job. There were also other interesting things about this set of events. Various levels of security were established for the different events. The badge shown is for the second most security intensive event. Also, at one event, beef and chicken was on the menu despite this being part of the 9 days before Tisha b Av. Given that a lot of non Jews were at these events I can certainly understand doing this but I was not the decision maker on it.

Seven Hour Mashgiach Assignment

I did a 7 hour mashgiach assignment yesterday. Two things conspired to make this necessary. The first was that there was an event with a lot of moslems that needed food delivered. For some reason, the event manager decided that the halal caterers couldn't or wouldn't take care of it and so they used a kosher caterer. The second was that the fellow who was supposed to relieve me after 2 hours was getting back from an out of town trip and was badly delayed (he said by traffic but there was probably more to it). ............. ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ This was one of those days where I did work at three different venues beginning at about 730am for a combined 10 hours or so of work. This is really unusual (fortunately). I don't think I've done more than 8 hours in a day for several years.

New Coke Product

I bought this product at Moti's. It is another new version of diet coke. I advised Coke Bear that I thought it had too much caramel. Coke Bear replied that I didn't understand that this was an 'Ultimate Limited Edition' under the 'League of Legends' program (the name of the new products department). ........... Then I asked Coke Bear what happened to the 'Hone our core competencies to exceed our benchmarks' policy. ...Coke Bear responded, "I make the policy, I can interpret the policy." ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... At least it didn't have any after taste unlike a product I tested a few years ago (I think it was called "Showtime Edition". Cross posted in the Weiss Chronicles.