Very rarely do I write about things that thrill me to death, I usually write about the twisted things that are on my mind or my view of a situation that I was involved in. Now dont get me wrong I write about all kinds of good things like the Wildlife Rescue and other local business’s like Pinnacle Amusements. I like to think of myself as a realist and an opinionated asshole but I call it how I see it, I appreciate the great things in life and simply put I call bullshit on some of the shitty things we have to deal with from time to time.
A couple of years ago there was a girl that worked at one of my Tanning salons, she was referred by one of the managers at one of our Extreme Tan and Smoothies locations. This particular employee who I will call “W” for the sake of keeping it on the down low kicked some serious ass and did so very quickly when she started working for us. “W” was a dream come true, she had incredible sales, amazing idea’s and she had the ability so many lack… she actually was self motivated enough to simply do stuff instead of waiting on others or over thinking it for 30 days.
As time went on “W” started to get promoted and move up through our company, we considered her for a large portion of the growth we were going to be doing because of her various skills and work ethic. About a week before “W” was suppose to take over as Store manager of one of our locations she suddenly gave her two weeks notice which blew us away. When I went to call her about it and discuss it, we briefly discussed her pay and how we could do something to make her very happy staying at Extreme. Within a few hours on that same day “W” didn’t show up for her shift and everything got out of hand very quickly ultimately with her leaving the company and the work relationship as well as the small personal relationship came to an end.
I logged into My Space the other day and had some messages to go through, one of the messages was from “W” which blew me away, especially because I hadn’t talked to her since the days of way back. “W” went on to write a brief apology, even with the apology being brief it was complete class.
I always respected “W” for her work ethic and her amazing ability to create outside of the box or with no box at all. When the situation went down it not only blew me away but it changed the way I thought about everyone I hired and considered for any kind of growth position very carefully. Now with “W” taking the time to write me so much later where she could have just easily forgot about it has me respecting her again and at a different level. I never had any ill will and still wish “W” the best.
Not that she will ever read this, but thank you “W”.
