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[I saw this email below from a client that Susan sent out this morning and have to agree that working with Maggie is a lot of fun.  I actually had the chance to work on an tension filled problem with her last week and was impressed on how she kept her cool and sense of humor.  --gregg]  I was cc’d on the following email this morning.  Great job Maggie! From …

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Casey Kraus, our VP of Sales, put out the internal email below on the great work Mike Binder has been doing for us.  Never one to leave a kind word left unchecked, I’m compelled to kibitz. Staffing software sales is a hard thing, but after-sale onsite software training can be even harder, and it’s something Mike has excelled in.  Invariably you are meeting up with the client at their most …

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Apologies to our customers for some voice mail issues we’re fighting right now.  We converted to a new phone system flawlessly last month but backend issues at our provider have been causing voicemail issues this week and are still lingering.  If you don’t get a call back from a voice mail, it could be that your message has been unretrievable.  Please don’t hesitate to recontact us.     Looks like …

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Like me you may have missed Dalyce Brell, VP of Corporate Training at Tempworks, during the last two weeks.   I caught up with her today, her first day back from vacation, and found out what she had been up to. The American Kennel Club held its national agility championship in Tulsa, OK,  and Dalyce placed very well among the 409 contestants.  I watched this video of Dalyce and realized that …

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I had the chance to have a beer with Staffing Industry Analyst’s Hugo Traeger a few weeks back.  It was sub-zero here in Minneapolis, but it was Hugo, the Californian, who warmed up the conversation with the comeback story of the Executive Forum, his firm’s yearly conference of industry captains. It was only a couple years back that I was mistakenly convinced that in-person shows were going the way of …

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But given what’s going on with Oscar, I’ll settle for the Hayward Cross Country Marathon.  Best of luck Maria and Bracy.

[Kobe Burger Stuffed with Blue Cheese at Microsoft’s employee cafeteria] This last week I was out at a Microsoft conference in Redmond, WA, with two other devs from Tempworks. Presumably there to get a futurist view of software, I came away with a futurist view of employee culture and hospitality.  Their devs were not just great technologists and speakers, they were genuine.   They showed they really cared about us as …

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How do people lose rings anyway?   Guys, mine stays right on my finger.