that I am intrinsically unsafe.

Problem is, for the umpteenth time I have been lectured today on safety. My group contributed to the original safety manual for what we do; we are aware of the safety requirements because we wrote them, more or less.

But we have to make the customer and all it’s agents happy, so we humbly sit through a presentation by a man whose hands have never felt a wrench, no callouses anywhere on him, and he cannot make it through a ten minute talk without cutting himself on the plastic cap of his pen. And now we are safer because we listened to him.

Sometimes, this is what we have to do.