Nice People
Sep. 6th, 2005 08:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shipperxIt's so nice to work for nice people!
As those who've read my LJ for more than a year know, last summer I was working for a bunch of absolute, self-centered, screw-you-over assholes. I finally found another job (and quitting my old job was a joy!) and I've loved the new job because the people who own the company are so damn nice.
Again, today, with the extreme niceness.
Today they called us in during the late afternoon for a meeting. We have a very small architecture firm, less than 20 employees (It started as a one man firm in 1990), but the firm has been performing quite well and expanding in this last year (hence the hiring of both myself and my friend Peter). They announced today that the firm is making a substantial donation to the Red Cross on behalf of all the employees. What's more my boss worked, gratis, this weekend to help design showers to be incorporated into turning Sloss Furnace into a shelter for evacuees (to explain, Sloss Furnace, once upon a time, had been a steel mill, but that was decades ago. In the early 1990s, it was changed into a concert hall/convention facility/fair grounds... and the local 'haunted house' every Halloween.)
Then they said that as we have many projects coming up in the next few months, they're contacting the Mississippi and the Louisiana AIA (American Institute of Architects) offering a couple of temp jobs for architects who are displaced from New Orleans or Biloxi. They are also contacting ASID (American Society of Interior Designers) to offer the same deal for an Interior Designer. We'll actually have to expand our office to accommodate new employees, but I was very impressed with my employers for making these gestures.
Also on a bright note, our secretary's uncle who had lived in the Biloxi area has now been located safe and sound. He is making his way to our secretary's mother's home to stay for a while.
As those who've read my LJ for more than a year know, last summer I was working for a bunch of absolute, self-centered, screw-you-over assholes. I finally found another job (and quitting my old job was a joy!) and I've loved the new job because the people who own the company are so damn nice.
Again, today, with the extreme niceness.
Today they called us in during the late afternoon for a meeting. We have a very small architecture firm, less than 20 employees (It started as a one man firm in 1990), but the firm has been performing quite well and expanding in this last year (hence the hiring of both myself and my friend Peter). They announced today that the firm is making a substantial donation to the Red Cross on behalf of all the employees. What's more my boss worked, gratis, this weekend to help design showers to be incorporated into turning Sloss Furnace into a shelter for evacuees (to explain, Sloss Furnace, once upon a time, had been a steel mill, but that was decades ago. In the early 1990s, it was changed into a concert hall/convention facility/fair grounds... and the local 'haunted house' every Halloween.)
Then they said that as we have many projects coming up in the next few months, they're contacting the Mississippi and the Louisiana AIA (American Institute of Architects) offering a couple of temp jobs for architects who are displaced from New Orleans or Biloxi. They are also contacting ASID (American Society of Interior Designers) to offer the same deal for an Interior Designer. We'll actually have to expand our office to accommodate new employees, but I was very impressed with my employers for making these gestures.
Also on a bright note, our secretary's uncle who had lived in the Biloxi area has now been located safe and sound. He is making his way to our secretary's mother's home to stay for a while.
