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My first summer job, after one year of college studying Chemical Engineering, was in a chemical complex and I was assigned to the shipping and receiving department. Ran a fork lift, stacked boxes, swept floors. Paid Okay but I was really surrounded by a rough crowd and lunch drinkers.
I brown bagged and monitored the office phones during lunch hours. One day about 3 weeks into my S&R career, the phone rang and I picked it up and said something like “hello, this is the S&R office at xyz company. how can I help you”. Turned out the guy on the other end was the owner of the company and was used to the gruff “Wada-u-want?” way the dock manager answered his phone. He asked who I was and I went on to handle his concern about whether an important shipment had been made that morning. We had a nice conversation although I had no idea who he was.
Next day the site personnel manager walks down to the S&R department and pulls me out during the morning coffee break and gives me a white lab coat and walks me up to the QC lab and tells the lab manager he found the summer lab assistant he was looking for. New job came with a nice bump in hourly rate and the lab experience really helped me for the rest of my career.
All because I answered a phone properly. You never know….
I brown bagged and monitored the office phones during lunch hours. One day about 3 weeks into my S&R career, the phone rang and I picked it up and said something like “hello, this is the S&R office at xyz company. how can I help you”. Turned out the guy on the other end was the owner of the company and was used to the gruff “Wada-u-want?” way the dock manager answered his phone. He asked who I was and I went on to handle his concern about whether an important shipment had been made that morning. We had a nice conversation although I had no idea who he was.
Next day the site personnel manager walks down to the S&R department and pulls me out during the morning coffee break and gives me a white lab coat and walks me up to the QC lab and tells the lab manager he found the summer lab assistant he was looking for. New job came with a nice bump in hourly rate and the lab experience really helped me for the rest of my career.
All because I answered a phone properly. You never know….