In the Fall each Year by the lake we would rake

 In the Fall each year we would rake up the fallen leaves and rake them into a pile on the green grass.

Our house had a picture window that faced the lake and there was only one tree in the backyard.

The tree had so many leaves and it took three kids to rake all the leaves into a pile.   Sometimes we would jump into the pile but then we would rake the all the leaves into a pile all over again.

In our small town we would start a fire in our small pit.  The pit had three logs to sit on around the fire.

The previous owner of the house on the lake had scooped up a hole in the ground and it was still leveled; my father would take kindle wood and put it up like a teepee and use newspaper strips tossed into balls and place them into the pit and lit a match and start a fire.

This is how we had some mores crackers, marshmallows and Hershey Chocolate bars in the nite time.

But before we could have this sweet reward, we had to burn the leaves, and it was all very controlled. 

We made sure someone was always with the pit fire and made sure it could not get out of hand.

Then the reward.

My sister and Katie Comstock

 My sisters best friend growing up was Katie Comstock.  I have only been to Katie Comstocks house just once to meet her entire family except for her father.   However, my sister had been at Katie Comstocks house for sleepovers and anything.   They were always hanging out doing things.  My sister never hardly ever talked on the phone like Kim I did.  Instead Katie and my sister passed notes in class.   My best friend tried this in Junior /High and we got in trouble for passing notes.   The younger generation are probably better at it.   The notes usually said where they were going to go after schoool and hang out and whose house my sisters or Katie Comstock's.

My sisters best friend Katie Comstock mother suffered a divorce.   Her husband was never home with her and the kids.  He had Two Daughters and a wife and he was somewhere else.   He later married and moved overseas and had a son in London.   Katie visited him there and did not like it.   So, Katies mom had to sell the house, and they had to move into a smaller house.  

Katie Comstock in first paragraph had always a smile on her face.

Katie Comstock in the second paragraph always had a smile on her face.

And no, this isnot game rules where a smile is false because this all happened in Wisconsin who are not playing the game.

The accident in 1980 with Golf Clubs

 My brother had been talking to my grandfather the previous year about Golf.

So, in October of 1980 by brother's birthday was very special he received from my grandpa golf clubs.

They came in a wrapped-up box.  My brother hurriedly opened the box to find a golf clubs in a bag.

Two weeks after my grandparents left, my mother, my brother, my sister and I went into the backyard to try them out.

(my mother to remember the year it happened, put on a photo of Dulcy, the year 1980 .....// Darcy.)

My sister kept getting too close to my brother swinging and my mom had to keep her away.   My mom had Dulcy stand closer to Norms house but still in our backyard.

My mom got tired and went inside to get something to drink.

So, I am guarding Dulcy and keeping her away from the swinging Dan.

When suddenly my mom yells out Darcy Kim's on the phone Come Talk to her.

I put Dulcy closer to the fire pit.

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She ended up in the hospital.

She also had to see a Psychologist on a regular basis. (for 6 months)

The doctors wanted her to play military/flying games.

When the games first came into our house. Dan and I were allowed to play them each once.

Then after that Dulcy was the only person.  However, Dan and I would sneak playing them when the parents were outside mowing the lawn.

Wisconsins Apartment Home

 My grandma and Grandpa got an Apartment home near Stop and Go (which is the same as 711)

They had to Rent for a week, and I got to visit them for the weekend, and they had to pack and leave to go back to their house.  This was the weekend that my grandpa walked into Stop and Go for me and purchased Sara Lee and I had it for the very first time as a snack after lunch with sandwiches my grandma made in the apartment-house kitchen.

My Cousin Darryl and Cousin Tim and Uncle Neal had a painting business, and they said, they would re-paint the house inside and out as a birthday present to them.

So, my grandma and grandpa moved out of the house, and they painted it.   Then we waited for it to dry.

Thats why they rented an Apartment-House.   The Apartment-House was white brick with black roofs.  

It had sliding doors, and an open patio not enclosed and when you walked out onto the cemented patio beautiful green grass with flowers.  Beautiful blooming flowers near the windows and a center of flowers to walk into beautiful garden.   

My grandma and grandpa liked flowers for special occasions.

My father had allergies so he could not be near flowers.  He could go into the apartment-house but, he also sat in the car.  He still has trouble with perfume.  My mother likes wearing perfume.  But needs to do it lightly around him if they go out to a fancy dinner which they have not done in a very long time.

Companies meetings

 The Companies meeting for the whole company was always once a month unless otherwise noted in email and always on a Friday morning.  In retail it was always a Friday and after we closed and cleaned the floor then the Pizza party started, and we were always given very important information.  In retail it was also once a month on a Friday.

In big business the Friday morning meeting you had to find the ultimate best donut shop.   However, they were not donuts unless the budget deemed it.  Otherwise, you got the fancy donuts that had the jam or custard in the center.  The President really like that, and you usually got a comment for that.

Personally, I would have done cookies with special napkins and cupcakes with a filling instead.  Maybe a muffin and or something that said breakfast.

The information usually introduced new procedures and any new hires.   We also talked about promotions and any open promotions to look out for besides reading the Company's Newsletters put out on the bulletins Board in the breakroom.   Back then rarely did a company send out emails in a newsletter but now days it would be a good idea.

B.cards and V.cards and wedding invitations how are they alike?

 I worked in retail and someone assigned me to wedding invitations.   They gave me no direction, and I had to learn all on my own.  The guy who did it before me quit.   Just quit because of all the stress involved with wedding invitation.   First you let the customer review the huge and I mean huge catalogs of pages of different types of invitations.   When they finally find the one they like then they need to decide what they want to put inside the invitation.   I told them to use block formation.  That way they could not make any mistake.   Because there is no returns in invitations.   So, I had 2 days off and the Manager did a wedding invitation and didn't tell the customer to do block formation so, it got sent in their own signature.  So, when the wedding invitation came back it was all misspelled.  Oh, the customer was so, angry!!!  They talked to the owner of the store and when the owner came to yell at me Infront of the customers!  The customer said no she didn't help us it was that lady over there.   It was the store Manager.

So, I redid it with them and told them to put it in block formation.

It came back beautiful.

When it is Business Cards also known as V.Cards /B.Cards you are to tell the typesetter the style of the font.  How big is the font.  The color of the font.  The color of the business cards.  The address front or back with email front or back.   Personally, I had the names of the workers in the front with title of position and email in front.  The back was the companies name and address.   After I checked if everything was ok.  (the workers had to fill out a form every time they needed a business card.)  I would make copies and send it in by fax.   Then when I got it back my mail then I prechecked each business card to review make sure it was correct.  Then I would take the business card box to the worker and that was all it takes to do.

That is how it was done.

Nameplates

 When I worked at a particular corporation it was my responsibility to ensure that the new hires who got to sit in cubicles (when a company goes bankrupt or that certain office store sells cubicles it's the responsibility of the Human Resource Manager to buy more Cubicles for the office if it is needed.)

The cubicles all had nameplates hanging from the wall.

The name plates either were pinned to the wall or they had a backing hook that you could prop up and attached to the top part of the wall.    I had to create a nameplate using a special template in my computer then print and cut it out and put it into a plastic nameplate.  The nameplates were purchased from an office store for business such as the one I worked for in the 2000.

It always had a black background with white letters.   The name of the worker always stood out and when you walked past the cubicle you always looked and could see the nameplate clearly.   The type of nameplate we had was when you laid it down on the table it was oval.   The plastic would slide over the nameplate.   When it could not slide anymore because it was very old and needed to be replaced it snapped on.  All I had to do when I needed more Nameplates was go to the Human Resources Manager and tell her.   Then she gave me a purchase order number, and I ordered more and then made a photocopy of what I ordered and gave a copy to the Accounting, one for Human Resources Manager and one copy for myself.    I did this same act for Business Cards for the New Hire.

Business cards are really important if you are in a hurry, you can hand your business card and tell someone to call you as you run to catch your airplane.     Also, Business cards hekp you continue your employment position because you caught someone's Attention on who you are and what your Companies all about including wanting to go online and research anything about your Company.

In retail Business Cards help if you have a customer problem or you are trying to promote your dept..   Retail Managers and Supervisors should all have business cards, Name on one side with title and the Corporation on the other side with Main phone number and Store address.

Big Business it's mainly Sales workers promoting the Company and trying to convince you to purchase their merchandise.

Thats why the Nameplate is so important.

working at Google, what was it like?!

 I lost a position working at a Biotech Company because of a misunderstanding.   We did not have a limo service, and while we were waiting to choose a corporation, I hired a Taxi Driver Company to shuffle our clients from the airport directly back to the Company.   However, the Employees of that company got chummy with an Customer they had wanted to become a worker in there department and had wanted to use the Company money for the Taxi Driver to drive from the workplace to a Restaurant and I told them they would have to pay for the applicant to go to the restaurant.

They did not understand the agreement was to the workplace and then back to the airport.

After that you would have to pay the driver for any detours.   This made the Dept Head whom was also one of the founders of the Company very Mad.    So, he told HR to Fire me.   They let me go instead.

They had a big meeting and I did not get to defend myself in defense and I had to sit there listening to them getting mad at me.

Then They told me to go collect my items and the HR Manager walked me to my car.  If there were 6 of me they would of let go each one of me 6 times alone.   

I drove home and that was that.

Then 2 weeks go by and Larry whom was my Traveling HR Recruiter calls me up one day and asked if I could do a Favour for him.   Someone in HR was trying to have a baby and needed to have some time off.   Would I be interested in working at Google in Human Resources?!   I said yes.   So, I interviewed for a blank sheet of paper.  (recruiter talk/they have the title but no job description it get added in later in outline form)

I have a big corporate meeting on the second floor, and they tell me what they expect and what they would like me to do.

I was to schedule the interviews. (for ALL Dept/ and all HR Dept)

EASY huh?!

So, Larry was fast paced but there wasn't all lot of emails.

Google had over 100 emails a day plus resume coming in.

The IT Dept had trouble getting Google Chat working for me so, I had to call or email to contact a Manager or I looked at the Internal calender for the Dept Manager and scheduled the conference room for the interview to take place.   I got to bump Mangers out of the scheduled rooms and place them elsewhere.

I sent an email out that I preferred this conference room as a HR meeting room so, if you could please choose a different room for all your upcoming meeting with your workers.

So, I only worked there for 2 weeks and trying to find a dept head was really hard.   It wasn't until I talked to a worker and found the MAP above the Copy machine then that was how I was able to find them.   It also showed all the exits.   I also learned on that day in the afternoon that it was on my computer internal website however like I said earlier about HR Google chat that was having problems and so, was the internal website for the corporation.   There was a link on the computer which allowed the worker to see what was going on in there dept and what was going on in the corporation.

All activities?!

I was always at the computer scheduling and I never new there was skating in the Companys parking lot.   I only saw them come in later and talked about the media showing up to take photo's of the President of the Company playing sticjk Hockey with some of the workers.

I used a copy machine/fax to send my contact work hours to the contract agency I worked for and to get paid.  It too was different from any fax machine I encounter.

The fax machine was placed in an odd spot.   After you left the front office you walked into the hallway and then around the corned was the copy/fax machine on the left and on the right was the bookcase filled with Google Shirts.  You are allowed to take one if you work there.

The Lobby of the Google Company is very clean.   While your sitting on the couch to your right is video games and to the left is a hallway that takes you to Marketing.   The marketing Dept had a showcase of hard and soft candy in clear bins and you could grab any one of them you chose.   The HR manager you gave me the tour was talking about dress code when she showed me the bins.   She said the men are in Marketing and there mostly single and she said Man cave.  She then nodded her head.

The candy was not all in wrappers and she paused, and we watched a man grab the candy without using the tool too take the candy out of the bin.    So, I passed on the candy except I did take the fully wrapped candy.    In HR there are special nods and looks you make when in agreement or disagreement when it comes to a very personal problem or not.

In HR at Google we would bring fully wrapped candy into our desk and share.  We also sat together when it was lunch time but the conversation was overtaken by passed workers and I was only there for 2 weeks as it was in the Cards to only be there for two weeks, so I really did not connect with them with their conversations about passed workers.   I was a slow eater of grocery food because I had Gerd and I took the full hour eating my lunch.     Google had a chef that had linemen cooks and by chance while they were cleaning the table I got into a conversation with the Chef because I asked for another xyz.

I asked him several questions about his employment, and it was very interesting conversation.

Done with eating grocery food whipped up fancy.

Off to print out Resumes to hand to Dept heads.  Then schedule some more and then leave by 6pm

The HR Manager asked me to stay 3 extra days and I would get paid for that they said.

So, again I drove into the Google parking lot.   It looked brand new, there were no cracks or pot holes there.  They could because the President loved playing Hockey.

Then after the 2 weeks and 3 days were over the lady I was covering for in HR came back and I would be let go.    I thanked them and said Goodbye in good terms.

I got into my car and that was that.

What was it like to work at Google?

Very fast paced.   

Managers would come into your office and move your stuff around while sitting and talking to you about what days they like to interview on so, the candidate didn't always have a choice with certain Engineering Depts.

Disruption when certain mangers showed up to talk to you.   You had to figure how to block them from touching the resumes, otherwise they ended up out of place.

The windows were always clean.   The floor was clean and vacuumed.

Ask a Question and polietly given an answer.

They had a massager come once every three days.   You sat in a backward desk and placed your head down and for 15 minutes that you paid for you got a massage.

Fun but fast paced.

The elevator Mechanic technician

 My family was visiting Kris and Roger.  We had decided to stay in a hotel in San Diego.   I remember when we went outside a big, huge screen and NBC was on.

There was also a convention of football players there.

However, it is where I watched an elevator Mechanic technician fix one of the elevators.

I have never seen this before.