Life is a road of curves! Thanks Winder Farms!!!

So it has been awhile since I last posted anything. I know! But my life just hit a big curve the begining of July. I had been working for Winder Farms; (Winder Dairy), for two and a half years I was a great employee. Starting off in a very low position (go-back driver), then moving into a Milkman position, then to the warehouse pulling crates of milk, then to the Aquasitions and Sales team, then to Retention Manager, then to Store Manager. It was a long road to where I finally ended up; but it is how I was treated in the end of things that gets my blood too boil!

In a nutshell I was forced to resign my position or be fired. The reason they gave me was because I accessed my own home-delivery account to close it out. That was against policy they said and that I could have changed billing, given credits to myself, etc.. The bottom line is that it had to do with money. I know that they are struggling with money and I was making a very hefty salary for that little retail store. So I was forced to resign, not paid any of my 60 hrs of vacation, thrown to the curb and just given a shallow sorry!

I knew that I wasn't going to work there forever because they way I had been treated. They have never really shown any kind of heart towards their employees, or customers; look at their Better Business Bureau report, or Bill Gephart's report. When I was a Milkman I fell out of one of the trucks twisted my ankle very badly and when I reported it I was laughed at. Also since I wasn't a member of their upper management groupies my opinion wasn't ever accepted. I created a whole retention guide to help with customer retention, we used that for awhile and after I moved positions it fell away. The President always said you can always come talk to me, when I tried I was always pushed aside.

Now I know that I have found a better company and look forward to a new career with the nations second largest wireless company. Good bye Winder, and good luck on doing business in a crummy economy, and forever piss on you!!

2008 Ragnar Relay

So at my work I was asked if I wanted to participate in the Ragnar Relay race. Huh? It is a relay race from Logan to Park City 178 miles. Holly Cow!!! I am not a runner and am not in the best shape of my life. That doesn't matter; you have 12 runners and each runner will run three legs each. Well that's not too bad as long as I got easy legs. So I agreed to join our company team and run. The race days were June 20-21. We started at 7:40 am at Merlin Olsen park in Logan and we finished 34 hours later in Park City.

All I have to say about this race is WOW!! What a sense of accomplishment to run a total of 15 miles with only two hours of sleep.

Leg #1

This was a nice 6.7 mile run through Nibley into Hyrum Utah. I lucked out because it was around 8:30 when I started the run and still very cool out. The nice thing about this run was that most of it was followed a winding country style road. The worst part was the nasty hill I had to climb after mile #4.

Leg # 2

This was a short 3 mile run outside of Mountain Green along Hwy 84. This by far was very easy for me and my fastest leg I ran; 33 minutes! Not much to tell you about this one.

Leg # 3

This run was a 5.3 mile hard run from Oakley into Kamas. I thought leg #1 would be the worst run of the race. Nope this one was by far. After only having about two hours of sleep and being sore I had to run this boring leg. It started off nice but soon turned into a long never ending straight run. I was so tired I had to stop a few times and walk. WOW I hated this one. I finished this leg on a high note as I sprinted to the exchange point and handed off. I was done!

Will I do this again next year? You better believe it! It was so much fun and hard work it makes you feel like you are living.

2008 Ragnar Relay Team. I am the second on the left top row; black hat on.