February 15, 2005

Turnaround

I read where the Krispy Kreme doughnut folk have picked for their upper level executive staff what the bidness world calls a Turnaround Specialist. Investors show hope that this person can reorganize the company to avoid bankruptcy proceedings.

It’s sure news to me that the doughnut makers are facing bankruptcy, but it’s good news. Maybe it means that we’re slacking off a little on the sugar and the fat. From the looks of the church meetings and the usual platters full of pastries for those who attend them, however, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of evidence that this is so. It does seems pretty biblical though. Apparently, the more they proclaim the word, the faster it becomes flesh.

Further and along these same lines, I recently spent quite a few anxious hours watching and waiting and walking a local hospital cardiac floor. My anxiety was provoked not only because my main squeeze was having some serious problems, but because the hospital’s dietary department was, as well. Morning after morning, up and down the hall, orderlies wheeled breakfast wagons jammed with plates steaming with sausage and bacon and eggs and buttered grits, not exactly the sort of cardiovascular maintenance diet one normally expects in such places of all places.

On the other hand, the doughnut folk might could get some good turnaround tips from the hospital folk. As fast as they take the cholesterol out down the hall in the OR, they put it all back in on Cardiac Four.

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