{"id":3860,"date":"2012-09-12T06:59:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T11:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/?p=3860"},"modified":"2012-09-12T06:59:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T11:59:16","slug":"happy-anniversary-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zimmerscope.com\/Verbisaurus\/2012\/09\/happy-anniversary-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Anniversary to Me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday, 09 September 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ten years ago today, I began my employment with Part Three Analytical, a contract lab for 3M that refused to call itself a contract lab for 3M.<\/p>\n

This may seem like a somewhat arbitrary anniversary to acknowledge, especially since I don’t work there anymore, but it was a big deal to me at the time.<\/p>\n

Earlier that year, I graduated from Century College. I spent the summer looking for a new job. I wasn’t terribly eager about it. For one thing, I liked my current job. Yes, it was in the eyecare industry and, yes, I had to work with the public, but working at Apple Valley Eye Care was an enormous leap forward in terms of job satisfaction.<\/p>\n

See, in February 2001, I finally quit my job at Lenscrafters. I worked there for over six years, enduring all manner of incompetent and micromanaging bosses – a revolving door, it seemed, of goons who each had their own idea of how to ingratiate themselves to upper management. Then there were the long and inconsistent hours – one day I worked from 10:00 to 2:00, the next day I worked frmo 9:00 AM to 9:30 PM. The pay was marginal, my co-workers were so-so, and the customers collectively rank as one of the worst experiences of my life…right up there with junio high school, the orthodontist, and the Wheelock Parkway congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses.<\/p>\n

So, yeah, leaving that hell and going to Apple Valley Eye Care was downright glorious.<\/p>\n

But, like I said, I still had to work with customers. There also wasn’t much room for advance. And the benefits, as is typical for a small company, weren’t much to speak of.<\/p>\n

Finally, in August 2002, I interviewed and was offered a job at Part Three. Following our wedding anniversary, and jury duty, I began work there on this day ten years ago.<\/p>\n

When I arrived home that evening, and Jennifer inquired as to my day, I said, “It was awesome, I didn’t have to talk to one customer all day.”<\/p>\n

And it’s been that way now for ten wonderful years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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