Part 1: It was bound to happen. After all, when a company tries to run as "lean" as ours does, all in an effort to save a couple bucks (by my estimation, literally about.03% of our overall travel budget) it's Murphy's Law that something wrong is going to end up happening. My name is Tyson Behrend and I work in the trade show business. I go from city to city setting up, breaking down, and working in trade show booths for a variety of different industries. If I were to describe my job it would be somewhere between spokesmodel and union grunt. While most of what the viewing public sees looks like a finely tuned machine, I can assure you it is anything but. While there were regular issues with customer facing solutions not functioning properly or not even showing up at the event, there were also things that affected me more personally; lost luggage, incorrect hotel room reservations, declined corporate cards, etc. This is not to say that I don't enjoy my job as I ac