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Things of My Very Own

19 hours ago

Look who came to visit us recently. It’s a crew from Lowe’s in Glenville! Their team came to the rescue after our flood, as a Lowe’s Hometowns project. Lowe’s donated drywall, joint compound, insulation, primer and more! Their team members also helped by bringing the skills we needed to begin rebuilding. Thanks to their hard work and generosity, we now have walls again in all areas of our building. Dan, Tara and Todd (pictured below) took it a step further by helping to package emergency aid for several families while they were on-site.

Thank you to the entire team at Lowe’s of Glenville and especially to their store manager, Robert Wagner, for his rapid coordination of this project. ... See MoreSee Less

Things of My Very Own

20 hours ago

Things of My Very Own is seeking two unicorns to join our emergency aid distribution team on a P/T basis this holiday season.

Start date: Yesterday or whenever you can start.
End date: January 15th’ish

Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 8 am-1 pm. From 11/26-12/23, hours generally change to 8 am-3 pm on the same days.

Rate of pay: $15 p/h

Things to know about this position:

- You must have a positive, upbeat, and outgoing personality.

- This position involves working at a fast-paced crisis intervention center during the holiday months. There are no calm days. There are however an incalculable number of exciting and joy-filled moments.

- You must be able to lift and carry 30 pounds repeatedly.

- You must understand or be willing to learn the illogical order of American clothing sizes. If it never occurred to you how illogical American clothing sizes are, here’s an example: children's shoe sizes run from 1c-13c, then start over again at 1. Count Von Count from Sesame Street would be disappointed.

Job perks

- Our work shirts feel pajama-like. Clearly, someone nailed this marketing-related purchase, because none of us want to wear anything else in, or outside of the office.

- Speaking of pajamas, our boss buys us matching pajamas every year for Christmas. We wear them for a team photo, then for about a week after our holiday program ends. If someone comes in, we tell them it’s pajama day. Since people usually don’t come in twice in one week, no one has ever noticed. Now that we have pajama-like work shirts, it might be a toss-up of what we wear during that week.

- You will know at the end of every day, that you impacted the lives of many individuals who are fleeing crisis situations.

- There is a reason why everyone pauses when our board chairman arrives. He is saint-like and will reinstill your faith in humanity. He is also MacGuyver-like and could probably repair a bridge with a Q-Tip and a chewing gum wrapper. Since things often break in a 20,000 sf building, we should probably start chewing gum in case he ever needs a wrapper.

To apply, please send your resume and a one-page letter of interest to [email protected] Please put “unicorn” in the subject line of your application. It will help us to see who read the entire job posting.

For kicks, here is a photo of one of our team members pumping gas. Please note that this is not required work attire. We can’t remember why she wore this outfit. The team member riding with her thought the outfit choice was hilarious and decided to take this photo.

For more information about what we do here aside from wearing pajamas and unicorn costumes, you can visit our website at thingsofmyveryown.org ... See MoreSee Less

Things of My Very Own

1 day ago

The beautiful person in this photo is Jamie. Jamie is an exceptional individual who has been part of our emergency aid distribution team for about three years. She is fast, efficient and accomplishes more in one day than most could accomplish in a week.

Lately, Jamie has been helping our administrative team. There are some people who love sitting and typing for hours. Jamie is not one of them. If you want to make Jamie cry, do nothing. If you want to bring Jamie happiness, apply to be a P/T seasonal administrative team member. It pays $15 p/h and you can bring your children to work with you.

Requirements

- The ability to type 40-plus words per minute with accuracy.

- Have a positive, upbeat and outgoing personality.

- Be willing to learn 7,009 processes that take two minutes each. Okay, more like 30. None of the processes are difficult. There is a book; it’s next to the computer. It will tell you everything you need to know.

- Be detail oriented, organized and have extraordinary work ethic.

- Know the difference between your and you’re. Using run-on sentences is clearly fine because I still work here.

- Be somewhat familiar with Microsoft Word and Excel. Know how to make something bold, italicize, perform an auto sum, sort into alphabetical order and freeze a row. Easy peasy.

- Be able to lift 30 pounds repeatedly.

- Be a good person.

- Know how to write professional emails and read cursive handwriting.

- Don’t use acronyms in emails. Using acronyms in an email doesn’t exhibit intelligence. It shows that you didn’t care enough about the person on the receiving end of the email, to spell out what you want them to know. We’re here to boost people up, not let them fall.

- Understand that this is an extremely fast-paced crisis intervention center. Everything moves at the speed of light, especially during the holiday season.

- Have a good sense of humor.

- Oh, and be nice to Jamie. She is well respected by management.

Start date: Yesterday or whenever you can start.
End date: January 15th’ish

Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 8am-1pm.

To apply, please send your resume and a one-page cover letter to [email protected] Tell us why you want to work here or tell us about your dog. Show us that you can write without using acronyms. Oh, and bring a tissue for Jamie. She typed a lot today.

To learn more about we do here, you can visit our acronym free website at thingsofmyveryown.org ... See MoreSee Less