Saturday, April 5, 2008

What does daddy do at work?

I just returned home from a 10-day "work trip" to Utah, Idaho, and Nevada. Most of what I do year round is pest control non-stop. Living here in Fiji (I think this is the fake name we use) I mostly deal with employee stuff, business licensing, sales rep stuff, customer stuff, etc. However, when I have to go visit the summer sales guys I don't mind work so much. I do pretend that I hate going, and I honestly miss my family like crazy, but it is the good life. Here is my "work" this past week:
One of the first things we did was drive to Preston, Idaho to shoot clay pigeons with a couple "potential clients" that are coming out this summer to sell.
We had a good time. The weather weas a bit cold, but we managed. I guess any day I can get a gun and go shooting is going to be a good day.

We Just started up our second Pointe Pest Control branch in Las Vegas, Nevada. Jared, Jordan, and Lynn did all of the initial setup work like finding a location, painting the branch, setting up computer systems, getting trucks outfitted and so on. I arrived and did training with the sales team. Things are going well and I think it is going to be a good little branch.
Here is a look at the decal and the stickers for the branch...I am not sure why I took a closeup. Here are some more pictures of our Vegas office.
Here is the main man Lynn "dawg" Peterson. He was the branch manager in Chicago, and has relocated to be the new branch manager in Vegas. I am jealous that we got him a bigger truck than either my partner or myself...actually, we don't even have any truck at all!
When I arrived back from Vegas we had a couple of important "business meetings" with the potential clients. Overall it went well, we played best ball and ended up in a tie. I promised them that we would finish this another time, so I may have to go back soon!
My flight to come home was April 1st around noon, but that didn't stop all of the guys I stayed with from going and doing some April Fools jokes on people. This one here we are jacking up his girlfriends' car. Once it was jacked up we slid a cinder block under the axle so it was about 1" off the ground, but basically unnoticable. I hear that it worked wonderfully. The other jokes we did involved gas, boxes of potatoes, and firecrackers, however, that will have to be another post.
Here is a picture of some of the afforementioned potential clients. We took them to Park City last time I was in town for the Sundance Film Festival.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Lets see if I can get everything...shooting, golfing, snowboarding, warm weather, Vegas, pratical jokes, and the film festival. Now that sounds like my idea of a business trip!

Emily said...

Sounds like a dream job to me!

Kyle said...

Yeah, kind of a dream job sometimes....just not very often. I just make sure to post these activities about twice a year when they happen.

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It's great to see how you guys are doing! Your kids are so dang cute!

Sheryl said...

What?! Work?! Yeah right...hahaha...thanks for the glimpse into your life kyle. :)

Marcee said...

You have to play every now and then right! Next time you come in our direction for WORK let us know.
Marcee

Sheryl said...

So yeah I'm thinkin' that i'm gonna go private on my blog. even though i'd like some random person to read my blog and read my testimony and then get baptized, i sometimes want to get to the nitty gritty, you know what i'm sayin'...so yeah you want in?

Send me your email to sherylkgarner@gmail.com

MattJulieGavin said...

where in las vegas is your branch? i wonder if it's in our part of the town. :)

Kyle said...

We are in Henderson.