Still found time for safety work

Somehow, during all that, I found a way to keep doing the safety work. So much so, that I got an award, and not just any award...

During the original market crash years ago, we planned to sell the building in which I was sitting, so they moved everyone down to empty space in the fab support building at the fab site. (Every fab manufacturing plant has an office building next to it where the planners, buyers, and other fab support folks sit.) Then, a couple years, later, they built another fab on the site, but this time without a fab support building. So, they booted everyone that didn't support the fab (that includes us) back to the office campus.

Right after we got moved (spring 2007), they ran the yearly evacuation drill. Having been on the evac team previously, I helped, and then subsequently joined the evac team. About the same time, our group within IT needed a safety rep; my manager and I agreed I could do it.
Fast forward spring 2008, and the guy running the safety team (of which I'm a member) goes on his sabbatical. My manager agreed again I could step up to the job, I covered for him, and got to co-chair the team when he returned.

The safety team has done some amazing things on the safety front, including creating a new, high-level recognition award specifically for safety, given only once per quarter per continent (Asia, Europe, and North America). The premier award in the North America--me!