Live from the Home Office

Hollie

After attending her safety school in Boston, Hollie began her career at the public relations company at which she interned during college to avoid the trauma and competition of interviewing.  Although deftly avoiding the vast personal financial fruits of the late ’90’s Internet boom, her next job in technology research introduced her to the wonders of the company offsite. It’s during these booze-laden, think-outside-the-synergy-box weeks in quaint Maine Inns, historic Newport mansions, and ski chalets in Vermont that she began honing her skills as “the fun coworker.”  In the summer of 2001, she made the well-timed decision to move to New York City. One day, she woke up from her friend’s futon and decided to get a job at Restoration Hardware until a real job came her way. She sold more lap duvets in December 2001 than any other sales clerk (and received a complementary lap duvet for her efforts), a career highlight!! .  A real job or two or three did come her way and she ended up entangled in the conference organizing business, where she was responsible for planning agendas and recruiting speakers for really overpriced industry events.This job provided her with the ability to work out of Australia for a little while, craftily moving to the other side of the equator during the North American winter.

During a company sponsored training in Singapore

Somehow she ended up planning events for a Switzerland-based reinsurance company, because what is more fun than a bunch of reinsurance executives at a trade show?! (please don’t ask her to explain what reinsurance is, she still isn’t really sure). She left that job for a new one that “didn’t work out” and then again escaped south of the equator to hide out for the winter 2008-9, this time in Argentina.  She came back and has been based out of her Brooklyn apartment with new recruit Will and her two dogs. She is looking forward to joining Will on the permanent corporate offsite known as marriage sometime in 2010, assuming the health benefits are in order.

Credentials include winning a New York City humorous speech competition in 2006 with a speech entitled, “Cubicle Dreams: How to keep your spirit alive in the modern workplace.”  She has also been “talked to” about her wardrobe, which errs on the far side of casual, at four of her past jobs. There have been no dress code complaints filed by her current employer.

Will

10+ years Marketing experience, 30+ years of suffering with the Mets, and now honing my craft in the Brooklyn home office.  Following college, I put myself on the path to fulfill every child’s dream of becoming a direct marketing guru. I spent 8 years at Publishers Clearing House

the house that dreams are made of had damn good iced tea in the caf

- giving out Big Checks (once to the wrong person!) and building their online business by day; guzzling vodka gimlets and insisting that I didn’t work with Ed McMahon, by night. Following an adventure in Australia with Hollie, I moved on to an independent company which was subsequently purchased by Disney. After a 4 month “magical” ride with Mickey and friends,I have settled in to join my fiance in the Brooklyn office. So

far the people here at the new gig are nice. Hollie is the most tenured in the office. She’s pretty cool (I might marry her), but she insists on using a Cornell mug, despite the lack of an ivy league degree…hmm. One of my coworkers is a crotch sniffer – which is awkward at times. The other guy here is small, hairy, nervous and I think obsessed with Hollie. Fortunately, there is plenty of coffee and wine flowing throughout the day and apparently you don’t need to show up until roughly 11AM. In between walks in the Park, debating eloping in Vegas, and dodging strollers here in the slope, we search for the next big thing. And, while doing so – we log the day to day here…if not for your enjoyment, then just for ours….Who knows what’s on the other side of this bridge, but may as well enjoy the view right now!

Lucaya

She has 1.5 years of puppy experience, 6 months experience terrorizing weaker dogs in Prospect Park, and was born in the Bahamas where she was found on the side of the road. When she was recruited, she was 7lbs, but after a steady diet of meals at the office cafeteria, she now clocks in at a robust 50 and is taking advantage of the corporate discount at Curves.  She had some bad habits like peeing on the copier paper and chewing officemate’s stuff (even once eating a preserved alligator head!). However, after a few bad reviews, she has straightened out her act and is now considered one of the young turks here in the office. Her current project is learning how to fetch a beer from the fridge.

hopefully we rescued a puppy and didn't bring back a feral island wolf

Murphy

Murphy was recruited 5 years ago. He joined the team after spending one day with Hollie at the ASPCA. He originally hails from the junkyards of Jersey, and thus takes the brunt of many anti-jersey jokes in the office. Murphy began his tenure as an intern, and after years of showcasing his skills has been proudly promoted to…Senior Intern. While Murphy does not show much aptitude for following direction or thinking independently, he does keep everyone’s spirits up in the office and is always the go-to-guy if you need to know where Hollie is.

murph has mad excel skills