Choice Mindsets

She may look cheery in the photo at right, but imagine a blunt object in Choice One controller Caray’s hand and that image feels a little different. Caray is absolutely amazing, but to do her job best she needs all of us to do–at the very least–one important thing: enter our hours into our time tracking software. And when we forget, well, Caray’s officemate Holly may hear some “select” phrases that are not in Caray’s typical angelic vocabulary.

 

We don’t mean to intentionally frustrate Caray (at least not about this particular matter), but sometimes entering our time takes careful deliberation. For instance, how do we specifically record scaring people, talking smack about the Cleveland Browns, or finding an open bathroom? Is picking on Jeff Puthoff a different category from picking on Jeff Kunk? And does hand-signing Christmas cards go under “holiday events” or “competitive contests”? (Get excited… they will be in the mail soon!).

 

Rest assured, Holly. There are a few tasks around here we do so well that Caray will never need to cuss about them: wearing green, helping her when she needs her car jump-started, and most importantly, appreciating Caray’s double-awesomeness. Because not only do we want Caray to get to heaven someday, we would like our paychecks processed, too!

Mr. Turton won the Longest Beard Competition at Wednesday night’s lumberjack-themed Choice One Charity Cup in Loveland, which earned him quite a trophy (that unintentionally kind of looks like him). And when he got home, that special trophy went straight to a place of honor in his house, as it should. So ignore the beautiful wedding day photo on his mantle and just zero in on that striking Longest Beard trophy, and you’ll quickly see that Josh is right.

We know that Josh has been growing his beard for many years thanks to the photographic evidence of Charity Cups past. With his powerful beard vibes, it seems that Josh has been able to read our collective minds years in advance to know that in 2019 we would hold a lumberjack-themed event complete with a longest beard contest. And Josh decided to step up and deliver quite impressively.

Seeing Josh’s commitment to a cause, then, helps us understand how our friends crushed our $10,000 goal and collected $10,870 for Sweet Cheeks Diaper Bank Wednesday night. Then we had an EXTREMELY generous anonymous donor contribute a match which brought the total support to $21,740. Seriously. We are blown away by all of this incredible generosity.

Last week was National Roundabouts Week, and we could hardly hold Craig Eley back from skipping merrily through the office while tossing little yield sign-shaped confetti on everyone. If there’s someone, somewhere with more passion and love for roundabouts than Craig, we haven’t found him or her yet (although Dane is probably a pretty close second—note his signature on the card).

 

We would never want to curb Craig’s enthusiasm for roundabouts, but we do want to remind him that there are other important weeks and days we celebrate here at Choice One. The third week in February is always National Engineers Week (although we carefully avoid “Hug an Engineer Day” that week). Kyle and his thin, blonde mustache look forward to No-Shave November. And we can’t help but celebrate World Toilet Day (November 19), which allows us to acknowledge both the need for sustainable sewers and this amazing photo.

 

Craig, we know you proudly celebrate roundabouts year-round, and we appreciate that you only really let your enthusiasm out once in a while (for our sanity’s sake). Your enthusiasm and the fun that comes from it helps to make Choice One a year-round celebrator of another national day: National Fun at Work Day (April 1).

Thanks a lot Billy. You just inflated Dane’s head as quickly as New England Patriot’s QB Tom Brady deflated the AFC Championship game balls. But, since Billy is our friend (and on the reigning Loveland Charity Cup team, which is no small feat), we won’t completely dismiss his statement. Yet.

Let’s take a deeper look into this comparison, shall we?