I have to say my job has certainly taken off regardless of the progress I have not made that is just taking longer than I want. We had a forum this week with all the leaders of the company. I was privileged to be part of the few that were here at the first meeting of this type ten years ago. There were a little over 360 of us. This time there were over 1400! Wow! Our company is growing and growing well. We are one of a few companies in this industry that is still hiring when others are laying off people. Moreover, that is because our leaders, CEO, CIO, CFO, CTO and VP’s all were planning for this last year and before.
We have liquid assets that allow us to buy things outright that other companies have to finance. Our owners love us and we actually provide support in terms of funding for our parent company now that we have had such success.
I mean just this last year in my new position; I have created two positions to hire this year. I hired nine people and that is due to promoting others into new positions. I have set up new processes and programs that relate to equipment reliability and it has started a fire with other departments and organizations in the company to make it an enterprise effort.
Our new facility is set for 35% growth. We paid out bonuses and merit raises, not as good as last year obviously but still we paid them. In addition, this year we are still doing better than any other company in the industry is. We are doing so well one other company has put out ads stating they will pay extra money for any customer that defects from us and goes to them! WOW!!!
I was with this company on virtually the ground floor: just a few years out from its infancy. The department I am in now operated with nine people. Now, there are more than that on one shift!
Enough bragging, I just am very excited about what all we have done and what we still have to do. I have a great team of people even though sometimes they are misguided in their focus at times. I have a good team of leaders under me that take direction well and we work well together. We are ahead of the demand on every item that pops up and I could not be happier.
So today, I have been inundated with meetings and calls trying to secure other system related technologies to help us to do better work, but I still wanted to write something.
I saw a friend is doing a photo journal on another site. It looks very interesting. A picture a day with a description of what is going on. It is called 365 Journal, I think; anyway, I was thinking of taking this activity up instead of the original reason I started this blog. With the current economy and my bill structure, I just have not had the money to go out and experience anything to write. However, that in itself is a good topic. Things to do for free with pictures! Sounds like a plan!
I may do that. Most of the initial pics will probably be of home life and such but eventually a walk in the meadow may emerge and such. So anyway, that is my plan. A daily photo blog with a short story. And off we go!
I like it...:)
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