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April 07, 2006
Eureka moment
This morning I've made a startling revelation. I would call it a Eureka moment but since it occurred to me in the shower and not in the bath it's not technically correct. Unless in the thousands of years since the original eureka moment they've made allowances for discoveries in other sorts of watery conditions. Anyway, all at once I had this startling thought: the shampoo people don't make their own bottles. Yes, I know; shocking.
This discovery will forever alter my shower time. For years I'd thought of working at a shampoo company, being involved in creating the hair concoctions, designing the labels, marketing, helping with distribution and, yes, designing the bottles. The pop open stopper on these bottles is amazing: it pops open easily (with a comforting pop sound) and yet closes tightly enough that none of the viscous liquid escapes ... even when stored upside down so all the leftover blobs can flow down to the opening. And to have been part (ok, leader) of that team would have been quite the thrill.
Now, when I think about working for a shampoo company I'll have to imagine contracting out the bottles. Calling some guy on the phone and merely *saying* that we want bottles with stoppers that pop. Now that the floodgates are open I will probably have to start imagining that the labels are designed out of house too; the cases of product delivered by some third party trucking company; the shampoo itself could just be requested from yet another company. What's left? Sitting around talking to other people on the phone. Talking to the people who are doing the jobs that *I* want to do. Eureka indeed.
Posted by John at April 7, 2006 10:10 AM
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How do you KNOW they don't make their own bottles?
Posted by: kerry at April 7, 2006 01:46 PM