About my job

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I work as the Midwest Regional Manager for Los Angeles-based Omni Marketing Services. About 3 years ago, we purchased a company called Good Neighbor, a grocery store consumer information center company that has been in existence for about 35 years. The previous owners were a large conglomerate of marketing programs, and Good Neighbor got lost in the shuffle of some of their other projects. Consequently, the company was about to go under, but we felt we had an organizational structure that would fit well and could turn the company into something productive.

In the three years since, in spite of some very bumpy roads, we have been fairly successful in this project. Much of this has come by removing much of the "dead weight," people who were taking advantage of the previous owners' ineptness and not doing their job. We have, however, kept one part of the company nearly identically intact from before. This is our warehouse staff. Our warehouse is in Knoxville, Tennessee, and it is staffed by some of the most interesting people I have ever met. As you can see from the picture, they are not exactly the type you would see in a corporate board-room meeting, but these people do an amazing job helping us managers be successful.

Mostly, though, I put this post on here cause I think the picture is funny (the black guy is pretty cute, though, right?).