Making Sandwiches and Biting One's Tongue

On Saturday I got to the church an hour early to set up the assembly line. The sandwich ingredients were laid out next to the plastic baggies, and the brown paper bags were pre-filled with fruit, napkins, and trail mix packages.

The four people who showed up offered suggestions about how to prepare sandwiches more efficiently. The foreman (yours truly) accepted all their suggestions because it's important to keep workers happy, especially if all parties know the laborers are severely underpaid.

We finished the eighty (80) bags in 2½ hours, a half an hour longer than normal, but the foreman bit his tongue about the purported efficiency improvements. He wants the workers to come back next time.