Since the beginning of January, 30,233 US business people have been injured taking the bull by the horns – an improvement over 2022, when over 60,000 were injured out of a total of 3.65 million who took the bull by the horns
“Companies are finding it harder to hire and keep staff,” says analyst Steven Pollinger of the Pittman Group. “So many have begun imposing less risky mandates like stepping up to the plate and getting on the ball,” says Pollinger. “So it’s only natural that we’ll see fewer and fewer bull-related injuries.”
“Now I wish I would have chosen giving 110 percent,” says one of last year’s injured, Larry Orington of Minneapolis configurers JAMES III. “I guess I’m just old school and felt I had to prove something.” He ended up with a four-inch gash on his hip, he says, because while taking the bull by the horns he was also calculating in his head the coming month’s budget accruals. “If I ever decide to do it again I’ll give the bull mye full attention,” he says.
“I should have been strategic and picked a more compatible bull,” says Monica Adams, of Pittsburgh’s PollimerzPlus, who suffered a cut forehead last July = but says she still plans to stick with bulls. “In the future I’ll just spend more time on advance research.”
Riana McBride, of Willinger’s, a moth repellent maker in Des Moines, was injured twice in the past – 1999 and 2013 – so last year last year she came away unscathed. She says it’s because she took the time to study bull psychology.
“I acted like I couldn’t care less whether I took him by the horns,” she says. “This made him feel inferior, and after five minutes he let me do it just to save face.”
