Hiring People is WORK!

This week has been less stressful in some ways and more stressful in others.  There haven't been as many orders to process, but there's been water to haul, equipment to fix, and more importantly we've got two new employees starting this year; one of whom should be starting sometime next week!  Preparing for new recruits doesn't sound that hard, but it's amazing how much work goes into getting them setup in our systems.  Until you have to do it, you don't realize how many different accounts, usernames, and passwords are used in an office until you have to reset them all to remove one employee and add-in another.  I have spent HOURS working on the setup for just one employee, and I have to completely reformat a computer for the other.  At this point though, I've got the computer setup for the employee that will be starting next week . . . now I just have to setup his company cell phone and that may be an adventure of its own.  This is just the prep-work too:  after they arrive comes the real work:  TRAINING!!

We're also getting more inquiries about basements and other interior winter work.  We have a couple from Humboldt coming right to our office tomorrow to choose colors; it doesn't happen very often but we'll have the coffee on for them :)  Generally speaking we go to the customer's home for the estimate, but this couple will be close by and want to see some larger samples:   hopefully the 1500 sq. ft. of Sierra Stone on our office floor will help them decide.