Sleep Clinic - part 1

Roger had a wonderful idea last year.  His parents went on a two week cruise.  They have a very nice 6 bedroom house.  So he was in charge of "looking after things" while they were on their trip.  Roger has never been good about saving money.  He usually needs to borrow money just to buy a taco.  But Roger hit gold.  He setup a fake Sleep Clinical Trial that lasted 2 weeks.  He had 6 "patients" that had their sleep monitored.  Some people were there because they had troubles sleeping.  So to prepare them for deep REM sleep they had various activities that were to assist them in aiding their sleep (lots of cleaning and removing weeds from the garden). 

There were other activities to not lead people on that this was a total fraud.  His parents also have 5 horses.  People were taking care of horses as a way to "connect with nature" and manure.  As to not make it look like people were gardening, cleaning and washing only, Roger put on two yoga classes.  He learned a AM Yoga session and a PM Yoga session from his mom's DVD collection.  He lead the class for 1/2 an hour every morning and night.  It was worth it.  I think @ $3,000 a person for 2 weeks @ 6 people = $18,000 he made out okay.  Plus when his parents came back the house was clean, de-weeded, and better than when they left.  Right?  Wrong.  Roger did blow six grand the last day throwing an all out party after his patients left and holds on checks had cleared the bank. 

So with our boss going on his two week vacation we had the idea to do the same as Roger.

Jake: "So do we break into Jerry's house or what?" 

Me: "Nah.  He's got a serious alarm system and nosy neighbors from what I hear.  Can't get past it.  I already tried with one of our interns to see if we could use Jerry's TV the last time he went out of town.  The intern did make it past the dogs."

Jake: "The big screen?"

Me: "Yeah."

Jake: "Where else?"

Ben: "We could have it here."

Jake: "In the office?"

Ben: "We just need to bring in some beds or cots and hide them during the day.  The sleep patients would only come at night.  We hook some fake monitors up to their heads and kick them out by 7.  People have to go to work any ways.  They probably need to go home and shower and get ready for work just like everyone else in the world."

Jake: "Yeah, we just won't have the whole day spa like Roger did.  We can use Jerry's office to hold the beds.  He'll be gone.  Perfect storage." 

Me: "What is our excuse that we are going to be still here past 5 o'clock when most people know we leave more around 4:30?"

Intern #2: "Leave like normal.  Have a pint.  Come back and check in your patients @ 9:00PM." 

Chief Intern Jim: "What time does the cleaners come by?"

Me: "ooh... good call.  Uh.  Jake you talk to the building manager and let them know we need the cleaners to be done with our office 8:30 because of..."

Intern #2: "Server changes?"

Ben: "Anthrax, err... Construction?"

Me: "Quit sniffing the envelopes with white powder.  No, just say server changes and lots of IT work will be going on at night and we'll have cabling and ceiling tiles on the floor and in the way."

Jake: "On it."