{"id":2123,"date":"2015-06-04T10:27:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T18:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2022-06-05T14:00:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T22:00:38","slug":"when-a-door-opens-just-say-yes-and-figure-it-out-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/when-a-door-opens-just-say-yes-and-figure-it-out-later\/","title":{"rendered":"When a door opens, just say &#8220;yes&#8221; and figure it out later"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/when-a-door-opens-just-say-yes-and-figure-it-out-later\/\" data-text=\"When a door opens, just say &#038;%238220;yes&#038;%238221; and figure it out later\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div><p>Over a <a href=\"http:\/\/priceonomics.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PriceEconomics.com<\/a> I read a story of a guy who took a job with UPS because he heard they had good benefits. \u00a0He started out working the ramp at Louisville Inernational Airport where the shipping company had established it&#8217;s hub, and as years passed, this fellow worked his way up the food chain until one day he was tasked with figuring out how to ship two whale sharks from Taiwan to Atlanta and then later two Beluga whales from Mexico City to Atlanta. \u00a0His name is Bland Matthews and he is known as UPS&#8217; logistical guru. \u00a0Oh&#8230;and the answer to those questions involves a <a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boeing 747<\/a> and a balancing act.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/when-a-door-opens-just-say-yes-and-figure-it-out-later\/ups-747\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2124\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2124\" src=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/UPS-747.png\" alt=\"UPS 747\" width=\"700\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/UPS-747.png 918w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/UPS-747-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/UPS-747-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/priceonomics.com\/how-to-ship-a-beluga-whale-via-ups\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read the whole fascinating story<\/a>. \u00a0While it is an intersting tale of how to get big jobs done, Mr. Matthews reveals a little secret about life in general:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>On Christmas morning, he received a call. \u201cThey asked me to be a &#8216;cargo load master\u2019 and I immediately said yes, not even knowing what that was,\u201d says Matthews. \u201cWhen a door opens, I don\u2019t say \u2018I can\u2019t do it,\u2019 \u2014 I just say yes, then figure it out later.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Over a PriceEconomics.com I read a story of a guy who took a job with UPS because he heard they had good benefits. \u00a0He started out working the ramp at Louisville Inernational Airport where the shipping company had established it&#8217;s hub, and as years&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2123"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2306,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2123\/revisions\/2306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}