The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #129212   Message #2909841
Posted By: SINSULL
19-May-10 - 08:31 AM
Thread Name: BS: May 2010 Declutter & Accountability
Subject: RE: BS: May 2010 Declutter & Accountability
Official Weigh In and I lost another three pounds. Can't wait to see what exercise does for my program.

SRS - I PM'd you the company name. Can't be too careful with some information. They are amazing to their employees. Two industrial refrigerators filled with water, fruit juices, V8, soft drinks. Fresh fruit twice a week. Bonuses for maintaining weight, cholesterol, blood pressure, glucose levels. Catered company lunches; semi-annual dompany parties at the best places in town. Last year it was held on an island and we had a choice of ferry or sailing ship for transportation. Now we have a gym with showers. Interesting people all just a little quirky with many interests outside work. The company matches donations raised in marathons and walks for your favorite charity as well as having an ongoing fund raising program with matching funds for three charities chosen by employees.
Jacqui mentione to me last winter that the Preble Street Women's Center was short of socks. I asked HR if I could put a box out to collect socks. The next day the owner of the company had HR purchase a couple of hundred dollars in socks and left them at my desk for Jacqui to deliver. No fan fare. No press release. And no one from the company followed up. Jacqui delivered them. I was on the original Giving Committee. In the first year, we raised and matched $10,000 with auctions, raffles, donation bins, etc. In December we worked with a local woman who runs a women's program in Haiti and helped her get supplies to her clients - thousands raised. This year we have matching funds of up to $30,000 and are on target to get them.

They hire based on qualifications. Young old black white fat skinny Asian Caucasian Hindu. It is a great place to work. And I am very lucky to have found it.

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