Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Men are Simple Creatures

My company doesn’t always work smart, but it is a good company and it tries to do right. Today it did something that surprised me. It worked smart, to do right.

My company participates in the Kaiser Permanente Corporate Run every year and it advertises and recruits participants. This year they have been really advertising it, but haven’t gotten the response they hoped for from the garages. Here’s where they got smart; the garages are full of mechanics and most mechanics are men, so they sent two of the best looking women from HQ to do recruiting for the race.

Someone downtown must watch TV. Because if you have seen any commercial geared towards men, it will have a beautiful woman in it. We men are simple creatures. We like women, we especially like beautiful women.

These two women walked into the shop and all work stopped and everyone went over to talk to them (talk to them is guy speak for hit on them). All they had to do was ask everyone if they would participate in the corporate run and guys lined up to join (I had joined weeks ago, because it was one of my short term goals).

A funny thing, most of these men joined thinking they might get a chance to hit on the women at the corporate run. But, after they finished signing everyone up, I asked them if they were running or walking? They said they weren’t doing either.

We men are simple creatures.