Having a discussion with my wife last night as we sat around the fire pit, man’s strange endeavor to bring a little of the wild into the city, she posed the question, “Why do you think so many agents and loan officers change jobs all the time at other companies?”
Great question! It probably has a little to do with why owners of other companies the size of ours have a net worth 5 times as great as ours; we reward our employees and associates to the highest level. If you read that as a braggadocios statement I so very humbly apologize. It’s not just the financial compensation it’s also how we all treat each other. We are, as much as possible, a family.
Every Friday at around noon you can expect a “catered” lunch. It may be catered by Pizza Palace, Chubway or a 4 star restaurant but we’re having lunch together. That started over 25 years ago when, as a baby, I inherited management of a small handful of car stereo stores in metropolitan Atlanta.
The trip isn’t too far to the answer why I began this practice and that was to keep employees who liked to tip the bottle or twist the weed from disappearing for the remainder of the day on Fridays. Of course that was the ’70s and in this day and time employees no longer behave in such a manner (tic).
Another thing we do is to keep fairly open invitations to our home for our employees. They can, when not inconvenient, invite themselves over for a game of pool or darts, a soak in the hot tub or a tan in the gym. It is, after all, a result of their hard work and persistence which allows us to have a home suitable for that type of entertaining.
Then there are the Thursday morning staff meetings. I must admit they are staff meetings I don
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