Dumpster Dive Disaster

We had the higher ups coming unexpectedly and my boss told me to gather up all of the old files

that should have been disposed of years ago, and take them out to the dumpster,

but to be sure that they were as far down as possible, so that no one would see them,

or be able to get to them. This was the mid nineties and we didn’t yet start

shredding files and protecting info th le way we do now. I hauled all of

the files down to the dumpster area. The dumpster was on a dock that trucks could back into,

so I was standing and looking down at the open dumpster on this dock. I threw the files

in and they were just sitting on top of the bags of garbage. My bright idea was