I’m posting this because it’s an example of one of my favorite parts of my job, so if in a few months I’m whining, you all can hold my feet to the fire about it. I never felt the need to go into some kind of altruistic work, because I was always taught that all work is honorable as long as it’s honest. But my job, as I’ve said before, is a nice blend of the altruistic and profit-driven motives.

I’ve had people out on a less-than-glamorous assignment lately- installing and configuring new PCs for a company-wide upgrade. Consequently, having this assignment encourages the people I send on it to find better, permanent jobs. This happened to me recently and I needed a replacement. I ended up sending someone I hadn’t been able to put to work thus far even though I had interviewed her a couple of months ago. For benefits reasons, I don’t “hire” someone (collect their post-hire paperwork) until I’m ready to put them to work. So I had to go out to the client site to pick up her tax stuff and I-9.

“Hey! How are ya?”

“I’m blessed, thank you. How are you?”

“Doing well, thanks, really busy at the office.”

she cracks a big smile “Well, thanks to you, I’m busy too.”

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