Guest Speaker (November 12th)

On Tuesday November 12Th, 2008 we had a class speaker named Garry Miltner come in. He was there to tell us all about the workforce and what he does for a living. He works at the R & S Companies Textile Services. He is the Sales Manager for the Johns town Plantation. There modo is "We deliver cleanliness." Before he got to where he is now, Garry wanted to be a phys-ed teacher. He was good at sports and loved to play them. He went to college and got his two year degree. After that he was forced to go into the workforce a a young age. From there on he knew that he wanted to deal with the public and that he wanted to change people's lives in a positive way. His first job was at the Italian Community Center located on Washington Ave. He started there as a dishwasher and made it up to bar tending. That he is when he decided that he wanted to start looking into the restaurant position. That didn't look to good for him, so he didn't end up doing that. When he decided that he had no future in that he traveled across country doing construction. He also decided that there was no future there for him either because he knew that he needed a full time job, and doing construction there really isn't no jobs in the winter time. He then went onto the National Linen Company where he operated the forklift. His boss asked him he wanted more hours and from then on he just helped out everyone with every different thing. He worked his way up to the Sales Department and he did that for 9years. He got to travel all around the world and said that he enjoyed doing that. But after a while things began to get messed up for him, so he went out and found a new job. That is when he started working at the Robinson and Smith Companies Textile Services. To get to where he is now he had to go through 4 different interviews and show that he was very interested. The R & S Company is a family owned and operated company. Dick Smith is the proud owner of this company, and his son Matt is now going to Sienna College to someday take over.
What i learned through this lecture and presentation, is that you have to be ethical and work for what you want. You have to start at the bottom and work your way to the top. You have to be willing to put in long hours and work holidays. You want to be faithful to your work and show that you are willing to put in the extra work. You want to make sure that it is something you love to do and enjoy doing to make your job easier and fun. Also, you have to have good communication skills and you defiantly don't want to be rude.
I thought that Garry was very interested. I did learn a lot and i like the fact that he still helps out on the loading docks and unloads the trucks even though he is a service manager. Garry doesn't always have the easy job. He has to deal with complaining customers and he has to satisfy them by giving them what they ask for or fixing what is wrong. Garry goes around and visits with all the companies and talks to the managers of different hotels and companies. An interested thing about Garry is that he puts out a lot of fires in one day. The only holidays that him and his co-workers get off are Christmas, Thanksgiving and New Years. If you are Jewish you don't get any of your holidays off.