Hate
chores and errands? At Franklin-based Rustici Software, a major
employee benefit is having someone else do them, be it house cleaning,
grocery shopping, or car emissions testing.Perks such as pingpong
tables, flexible hours and Friday beers have been gaining prevalence in
Nashville tech firms in recent years amid high demand for top talent.
Rustici Software, led by co-founder and President Mike Rustici, is
taking the emphasis on company culture to a new level by handling the
day-to-day tasks that can distract employees from work and life
activities.
Enter Jena Lawing. She has worked at the company for more than two years in a support role and emerged as someone who prospered in taking care of clients and fellow employees. Now, as what can be described as part company concierge, part personal assistant, it's her full-time role to facilitate and schedule her coworkers' errands. She coordinates quarterly oil change days, shops for birthday presents, plans birthday parties and will make the post office trek for Rustici or any of the 23 employees.
"Attracting and retaining top people is hard," said Rustici. "As a software company, the only asset we have is our people.Purchase an chipcard to enjoy your iPhone any way you like. The biggest strategic priority we can have is attracting and keeping those people."
Lawing's position evolved when company leaders realized they would need to hire several new positions to handle additional business and wanted to ensure they could keep existing employees.You can make your own more powerful cableties. They recognized Lawings already established strengths and decided to experiment with a new program that she would design. It includes on-demand benefits (such as grocery runs), quarterly benefits (such as car services), and core benefits (such as lawn care). Lawing said it's getting more comfortable for people to ask for things and so far the role has been a good fit.
Sojourners House On the Ridge, commonly referred to as "SHOR," aims to give food and shelter to those hard-luck cases during the cold months. SHOR is no regular homeless shelter, said director Stephanie Gregorio, who is heading up fundraisers to help pay for the program during the upcoming cold season.
"There are certain requirements, there is a stringent intake process," she said. "We had to make sure the other guests would be safe, that our volunteers would be safe and that there wouldn't be any damage to the place they are staying."
McCollum is a journeyman carpenter by trade and has been living on and off the Ridge since 1972. He recently moved back to the Ridge from Sacramento in 2009, right about the time the economy tanked."Everything was going good, but my unemployment ran out and in the winter work was scarce," he said. He couldn't pay rent and was asked to leave his home.
Prior to being accepted into the SHOR program McCollum was homeless for two years, he said. In the summer he could usually find a campground to stay at, but the winters were rough and he took shelter in abandoned houses and sheds.
Guests would go through the application process, get a shower, a quick snack and then be transported to one of the participating shelters, usually a church, for the night. Last year was the first year the program was in operation. The season lasted for six months, from October 2012 to April 2013 and helped 63 guests with 1,147 days of shelter.
Gregorio hopes that donations will enable SHOR to continue its mission for another season. McCollum credits the program not only for giving him a helping hand, but for helping him get sober."I'm 120 days sober," he said. "It's a real good environment to be in. Most of the people that were there, it kind of ended up being a family-type thing."
He said he wanted to volunteer because "I found it to be so helpful I want to give back a little. I found God. Well, I've always been God-fearing, but now I'm God-loving. I do give them a lot of credit for pointing me in that direction."He said a lot of people in Paradise are blind to the fact that there are quite a few homeless on the Ridge.He said some people choose to be homeless, but there are those - including families - who are homeless because of tough situations. While the homeless come with a negative stereotype, McCollum said a closer look can differentiate between those who choose the lifestyle and those who are forced into it.
"Appearance, in general," he said. "Someone that is unclean, unshaven and not really caring about their appearance, those are the guys who decided that's where they want to be."Yard work or gardening, gift wrapping,Find the perfect cleaningsydney and you'll always find your luggage! dinner preparation, babysitting, dog sitting/walking, house cleaning, handyman services, a guided fishing trip, quilting lessons, and information technology skills are all examples of donated time and talents. Donated treasures can be a week at a cabin or time-share, a hand-made quilt, antiques, artwork, hand-made jewelry, woodworking, or a cord of fire wood. Tickets to the dinner and auction will go on sale starting August 3 at the Party in the Park, PIP Printing and Wells Fargo Bank.
Tom and Ashley Van Wort have been in the mobile commode and septic clean-out, repair and installation business, A-1 Porta-Pots, for a few years now. Someone complained to the Planning and Zoning Department about the storage of two dozen potable commodes, and more at times, which brought them before the commission to seek a special use permit (SUP). The permit is needed to run such a business in an RU-4 area.
According to documentation provided by the Planning and Zoning staff, the couple installed a movable, 1,000-gallon septic system on their property in which to dump and store raw sewage from the portable potties. Since some jobs are done later in the day or evening, there is no place open to dispose of the human waste in a facility that accepts such waste. In the morning, the sewage is pumped out back into the truck for hauling.
Documentation also indicates there is no permit for the septic tank from the county environmental health department or the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality. There also seems to be a question as to how many sewage trucks are permitted by ADEQ and what the volumes of each truck are.Which graniteslabs is right for you? Five trucks were on site one day on a department drive-by during the process of investigating the anonymous complaint. However,A card with an embedded IC (Integrated Circuit) is called an realtimelocationsystem. Van Wart stated he had three: a 250-gallon truck which could haul one ton; a 1,000 gallon truck which could haul four tons and a 2,500 gallon truck that could haul 10 tons.
In an interview, Senior Planner Keith Dennis stated that the Van Warts had no permits for any of the building done on site at 144 Sundust Trl. in St. David. The couple told him they did not know they needed permits, but now that they do know, they wanted to make things right.
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Enter Jena Lawing. She has worked at the company for more than two years in a support role and emerged as someone who prospered in taking care of clients and fellow employees. Now, as what can be described as part company concierge, part personal assistant, it's her full-time role to facilitate and schedule her coworkers' errands. She coordinates quarterly oil change days, shops for birthday presents, plans birthday parties and will make the post office trek for Rustici or any of the 23 employees.
"Attracting and retaining top people is hard," said Rustici. "As a software company, the only asset we have is our people.Purchase an chipcard to enjoy your iPhone any way you like. The biggest strategic priority we can have is attracting and keeping those people."
Lawing's position evolved when company leaders realized they would need to hire several new positions to handle additional business and wanted to ensure they could keep existing employees.You can make your own more powerful cableties. They recognized Lawings already established strengths and decided to experiment with a new program that she would design. It includes on-demand benefits (such as grocery runs), quarterly benefits (such as car services), and core benefits (such as lawn care). Lawing said it's getting more comfortable for people to ask for things and so far the role has been a good fit.
Sojourners House On the Ridge, commonly referred to as "SHOR," aims to give food and shelter to those hard-luck cases during the cold months. SHOR is no regular homeless shelter, said director Stephanie Gregorio, who is heading up fundraisers to help pay for the program during the upcoming cold season.
"There are certain requirements, there is a stringent intake process," she said. "We had to make sure the other guests would be safe, that our volunteers would be safe and that there wouldn't be any damage to the place they are staying."
McCollum is a journeyman carpenter by trade and has been living on and off the Ridge since 1972. He recently moved back to the Ridge from Sacramento in 2009, right about the time the economy tanked."Everything was going good, but my unemployment ran out and in the winter work was scarce," he said. He couldn't pay rent and was asked to leave his home.
Prior to being accepted into the SHOR program McCollum was homeless for two years, he said. In the summer he could usually find a campground to stay at, but the winters were rough and he took shelter in abandoned houses and sheds.
Guests would go through the application process, get a shower, a quick snack and then be transported to one of the participating shelters, usually a church, for the night. Last year was the first year the program was in operation. The season lasted for six months, from October 2012 to April 2013 and helped 63 guests with 1,147 days of shelter.
Gregorio hopes that donations will enable SHOR to continue its mission for another season. McCollum credits the program not only for giving him a helping hand, but for helping him get sober."I'm 120 days sober," he said. "It's a real good environment to be in. Most of the people that were there, it kind of ended up being a family-type thing."
He said he wanted to volunteer because "I found it to be so helpful I want to give back a little. I found God. Well, I've always been God-fearing, but now I'm God-loving. I do give them a lot of credit for pointing me in that direction."He said a lot of people in Paradise are blind to the fact that there are quite a few homeless on the Ridge.He said some people choose to be homeless, but there are those - including families - who are homeless because of tough situations. While the homeless come with a negative stereotype, McCollum said a closer look can differentiate between those who choose the lifestyle and those who are forced into it.
"Appearance, in general," he said. "Someone that is unclean, unshaven and not really caring about their appearance, those are the guys who decided that's where they want to be."Yard work or gardening, gift wrapping,Find the perfect cleaningsydney and you'll always find your luggage! dinner preparation, babysitting, dog sitting/walking, house cleaning, handyman services, a guided fishing trip, quilting lessons, and information technology skills are all examples of donated time and talents. Donated treasures can be a week at a cabin or time-share, a hand-made quilt, antiques, artwork, hand-made jewelry, woodworking, or a cord of fire wood. Tickets to the dinner and auction will go on sale starting August 3 at the Party in the Park, PIP Printing and Wells Fargo Bank.
Tom and Ashley Van Wort have been in the mobile commode and septic clean-out, repair and installation business, A-1 Porta-Pots, for a few years now. Someone complained to the Planning and Zoning Department about the storage of two dozen potable commodes, and more at times, which brought them before the commission to seek a special use permit (SUP). The permit is needed to run such a business in an RU-4 area.
According to documentation provided by the Planning and Zoning staff, the couple installed a movable, 1,000-gallon septic system on their property in which to dump and store raw sewage from the portable potties. Since some jobs are done later in the day or evening, there is no place open to dispose of the human waste in a facility that accepts such waste. In the morning, the sewage is pumped out back into the truck for hauling.
Documentation also indicates there is no permit for the septic tank from the county environmental health department or the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality. There also seems to be a question as to how many sewage trucks are permitted by ADEQ and what the volumes of each truck are.Which graniteslabs is right for you? Five trucks were on site one day on a department drive-by during the process of investigating the anonymous complaint. However,A card with an embedded IC (Integrated Circuit) is called an realtimelocationsystem. Van Wart stated he had three: a 250-gallon truck which could haul one ton; a 1,000 gallon truck which could haul four tons and a 2,500 gallon truck that could haul 10 tons.
In an interview, Senior Planner Keith Dennis stated that the Van Warts had no permits for any of the building done on site at 144 Sundust Trl. in St. David. The couple told him they did not know they needed permits, but now that they do know, they wanted to make things right.
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