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What’s Your MDI?
Many, many years ago I worked with a wonderful group of people. This is the type of group that you will always look back at fondly and miss spending time with them during the day. One of the activities that we would partake in nearly every single day was something we called “pop time”. Pop time was where we would walk down to a small kitchen area where there were vending machines and a coffee maker and everyone would get an afternoon drink and chat for a while before heading back to finish up the day. We usually had pop time between 2–3pm.
There was one individual in this group, Todd, that was just an all around great guy. He would usually have something fun to talk about. I would also go as far as to call out that he was usually on the glass half empty side of the fence. There were many rants about company decisions and sometimes how we all needed to get out of there. But he took it one step further. He kept a running total stating how much money he thought that he would need to just stand up and yell “Screw it!” and walk away. I remember that we would get usually weekly updates for this piss-off number. It was usually something like $1,442,350.00. While I am not sure how he calculated this number and what factors and variables he took into account here, he kept that calculation running and the number updated for years.
