"What's the video camera for, Barney? Recording how awesome you are?" - Brittany Clinehens Ah, to live a day in the life of Brian "Barney" Barhorst, one of our lead designers--stocking the canteen, baking cookies for the Loveland office, bossing everyone around, and just generally being awesome...
“Can I get a gift receipt for this, Megan? I’d like to return it.” - Wes Goubeaux This year, during the Choice One Engineering Christmas party, we were all so fortunate to receive the gift voucher above. Since we all LOVE hugs so much, Megan wanted to...
“Looks like I’m faster than electricity.” - Mitch Thobe We don’t think it would be a stretch to say that every one of us has been angered by a printer sometime in recent memory. The printers here at Choice One have been threatened, kicked, and cursed at....
“When I played basketball in high school, we didn’t even have a three-point line.” - Caray Schmiesing Happy birthday to our beloved controller, Caray Schmiesing. We would have never guessed that she’s older than the basketball three-point line. Caray’s husband, Rogel, surprised her with a trip to...
“How many green shirts does it take to move one desk?” - Megan Bornhorst Believe it or not, it’s getting greener around here. Over the past week, the Sidney office has been repainted. You will no doubt be shocked to hear the new paint is blue and...
(via email) Tony Schroeder: On a side note, Lonnie Cain came up to me at [soccer] practice last night and was laughing about how excited Tricia got; He gave me all these ideas on how to defend myself if she showed up at Lehman. Tricia Bishop, ODOT...
“Well, it was either get pies from The Spot for Boss’s Day, or go around and give everyone hugs.” - Brittany Clinehens Since everyone at Choice One really loves his or her remarkable, motivating, caring, amazing manager (yeah, that might be some sucking up), we had pies...
Kaye: "What's up with this guy's stomach?" Brittany: "The guys thought it was a cummerbund. I think it's a fanny pack." Meet Eeyore (from the abbreviation E-OR), the unofficial mascot of Choice One's core values. He's quite the looker, don't you think? He was hand-drawn by Jeff...
“You can always tell when Mitch is on the phone with Matt: his voice gets higher and higher and louder and louder.” - Brian Goubeaux Traffic engineers Matt Hoying and Mitch Thobe talk traffic daily. Both have the same traffic engineering education from the Northwestern University Center...
"The Sidney office has buns from Arby's. Is it fair to assume that the Sidney office had Arby's sandwiches? If so, Schmidty at the Loveland office is jealous." - Brian Schmidt (via email) Hmmm, based on a recent pile of boxes to recycle, the Loveland office has...