I will post pics later of Chase and the girls in the bath tonight:)
But right now I have to say, way to go Daddy!
Phil is in Orlando for his national sales meeting. Tomorrow is his one year anniversary at ePlus . Last year he resigned from Gateway where he worked for 8.5 years! It was a huge deal for us that he was considering leaving and resigned. Phil's always been a very hard worker. He worked full time all through college. We used to have dates at like 10pm b/c he worked retail at Circuit City then Best Buy. He was the computer department supervisor his last year or so in college. Gateway had just started opening their retail stores and they head hunted Phil and several of his colleagues at Best Buy to come work for them. He was the small business sales guy for this area and had a small office in the back of the store. He ended up working from home before we got married and he had an office in our basement at this house until last year! His job grew from small business to companies with 500+ employees, he started traveling and covering both Carolinas and southern VA . He swore he would never work out of an office again, he really enjoyed working at home, haha. I annoyed the crap out of him when I was off in the summers, but it sure was nice when we had babies! We have a bajillion Gateway products like computers, projector, even a DVD player and plasma TV (courtesy of the stores going under, haha).
Anyway, so he took the plunge last year after feeling kind of stagnant in his career and not really being very happy and went to work for ePlus, in an office in N. Raleigh. It has been nothing short of FABULOUS! They are very nice people, people actually care about him and our family, yet pretty much allow him to do his own thing, They have perks like parties and hockey tickets. He has an office, haha, but he's usually only there a few days a week some weeks, more other weeks, none probably some weeks...He works cooperatively with a lot of vendors like HP, Lenovo, some with Gateway still, Okidata, and others. He still hates Dell which is hilarious b/c we won a basket at the preschool fundraiser raffle and it had free Dell crap in it.
Anyway, people he works for are actually NICE and complimentary to him!
And today, he went down to his meeting and he won Rookie of the Year for the company. He's had an awesome year. (As have I, he's actually travelled less lately!) I guess he's sold more and closed more large deals than any of the other newer people. I said, uh, did you get money? A prize? He said he got plaque. But he's there until Saturday so we'll see. We didn't get to talk too long b/c they were off to dinner and drinks then Olympic themed contests. Which I'm sure will be fun after dinner and drinks.
Yeah! We're so proud of him!
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