Mr. Danny Goes To Work

Thursday was bring your son/daughter to work day. Danny met the age requirement of eight and was the lucky dog that got to head off to work with me at 6:30. He ended up staying for the full 11 hour day. Yes, 11 hours - my plan was to take him home or to school at lunch, but he wanted to stay and do real work.

He enjoyed seeing my workplace, meeting my coworkers, getting to see use some of the programs I wrote and eating McDonalds for breakfast and lunch. I even set him up with a project we've been working on and had him do 'real' work - work that some of my coworkers do for $30+ an hour. Danny cut costs by doing work for strawberry gummis. I gave him one for every 30 features he edited. Child labor is awesome. Actually, Danny is awesome.

Several of my coworkers were impressed with his work ethic. One got particularly excited when he remembered that there are three other Cox kids at home. He suggested I bring them and estimated we could finish a project in a matter of hours. I told him Seth needs to learn English first.

Another said that Danny does more work than one of our GIS Specialists. I thought to myself "Yeah, he's right". Then I remembered I'm a GIS Specialist. Surely he was talking about one of the other two GIS Speciliasts.

This video is awesome. I decided to get some footage of him working on this project. It's a project where we have been working to reconnect a number of residential laterals to their meters. In explaining the project to Danny, I had to teach him about 90 degree angles and how we wanted the lateral to be perpendicular to its connecting water main. The last ten seconds are funny. . .