I don’t know that having a sense of humor is a requirement for employment here at The Cleveland Vibrator Company, but it certainly wouldn’t hurt!  Perhaps it’s a bit like the old Johnny Cash song about a boy named Sue; you’ve got to expect some off the wall comments when your employer is The Cleveland VIBRATOR Company!  Hard not to be at some sort of gathering and someone asks what you do or where you work.  Yea sure, Cleveland VIBRATOR, you can see them fighting back the smile and probably more than a couple of questions.  I used to be in the Army Reserves and spent the last few years of my service in a school unit as an instructor and eventually as a course manager.  Our mission was to teach soldiers who wanted to change career fields and get a new “MOS” or job skill.  At the end of the “report day” once we’d in-processed all the students into the course we would have a brief introduction to the school, the course and the staff.  We’d go around the class and have each student talk a bit about themselves, military experience and civilian career, always fascinating.  After we worked through the students then the staff would do the same.  I always got a kick out of saying, “I’m Master Sergeant David Strong, so on and so forth, I’m a mechanical engineer and work for The Cleveland Vibrator Company.”   I always gave it a long pause and then added “and no…we don’t make hand held pleasure devices!”  You can probably imagine the response. Read More…