...if I did, you will just have to suffer through another story about this office. But first, perhaps I will take a quick look back in this blog just to be sure...Nope! No stories about Seattle. To clarify, the Seattle office was in Woodinville, a long ways way from Seattle proper. The office was in a office complex on the west side of the Samammish River and overlooking the river, the park and the fields beyond. Very idyllic. The estimators offices were on the second floor and the view was spectacular. I'm still working on finding a decent screen capture program and the one I used is not even close. I'll give it another try...okay, not bad, though I wish I had a street view.
This was a friendly office with a great branch manager and contract secretary. I knew the branch manager from his time with the San Francisco branch. He got lucky and was appointed the manager of the branch in his home area; Seattle. There was only one snag and that was an estimator that refused, but not outright, to use a computer for anything. I tried for 2 years as that was my boss's instruction; 'make him use it'! Finally it was decided to just ignore him as he was a successful estimator and they didn't want to lose him to a rival company.
Woodinville was a small agriculture based town and motels were few and not very good, so I always stayed at the Silver Cloud on the other side of the hill and near the freeway. Later I began using a nicer hotel in Bothell.
I have nothing but nice memories of this office. They were all grateful for any knowledge I brought them and always said 'Thank you' and that was something I rarely heard at the more focused branches.
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