Night Shift: 270 Factory Stories - True Tales from American Manufacturing | Inspiring Workplace Stories for Business Professionals & Entrepreneurs

My copy of Night Shift arrived in the mail on the same spring day that Washington State cherries appeared in my supermarket – in two-pound bags. I sat down with the book and the cherries. Before I knew it, I had eaten half the cherries and was well into the book.A large manufacturing facility employs all kinds of people. Macaray is an astute observer of the personalities who staffed the factory where he worked for many years. He has captured these personalities and their interactions in the 270 stories in this book.But these are not stories to be blasted through in rapid succession. Each one can be savored for what it reveals about people in general, and the factory workers who make your toilet paper in particular. I moved the book from my dining table to my bathroom, and when I sit there, I read just a few stories at a time. Now, when I reach for the toilet paper, I have a renewed appreciation for the stuff. It is there only because these folks, with their proficiencies and their foibles, and whatever else was going on in their lives, went to work and made it for us.