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  1. A Day In The Life Of Cable dog

    By Guest Blogger Sammy

    My name is Sammy-I also go by Sam. I am a 5 year old Border Collie mix. I was rescued from a dumpster in Yakima by an organization called Lil’ Waif Puppy Rescue. I came to the rescue with something they called “failure to thrive”. They were really nice to me though; I got snuggled in a rocking chair a lot and got better. I used to stand in my water dish all the time and the nice lady who rescued me made sure I was adopted into a home that would involve water. Sure enough I got my own pond now and lots of friendly neighbor dogs that come over to play.

    My favorite neighbor is a Chihuahua named Harley, he doesn’t seem to notice how much bigger I am than him. One of my other best friends is a Schnauzer named Zeke-I met him when we were both really young and I taught

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  2. Cisco WebEx on 24

    I admit it-I am a 24 junkie and I voted for Jack Bauer for President last November. 24 is fast paced, patriotic and uses a lot of really cool technology that the average Joe doesn’t know exists let alone understands. To check out a scene from last night’s 24 click here. Last night the plugs for Cisco were kind of obscene-but it did get me interested in the technology. WebExprovides technology for everything from electronic signatures to web meeting and video conferencing capabilities; Cisco calls them virtual collaboration tools. BTW Connectzone.com sells Cisco cables if you are in need of one.

    Product Placement 101

    Am I the only person

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  3. Cable Geek

    Cable Geek is who most of our established customer’s know as [email protected] . Lance has been on our team for about a million years. In short Lance is our company’s and our customer’s safe sales harbor in stormy seas. Yep-the rest of us could be wiped out with the stomach flu or a snow storm and Lance is still gonna be there holding down the fort. He has an amazing ability to find a funny story just when you need it, or find the silver lining in a dark cloud. He is quite inquisitive and has a wide variety of interest. Cable Geek is unbelievably loyal and most important to our customers, honest and ethical.

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  4. Jemma

    That’s me, it’s really kind of more of a personality type than a name. My business card says my title is “Mission Control” that’s an upgrade from what my title used to be which was “does everything that no one else knows how to do or is unwilling to do”. Remember the movie Apollo 13? Ed Harris portrayed Gene Kranz as NASA Flight Director? He makes a couple really strong statements that describe what I do all day. The first is “Failure is not an option”. The second is as Apollo 13 is re-entering the atmosphere with everyone at NASA predicting disaster and Ed Harris puts on his white vest and says “Gentlemen, I believe this is going to be our finest hour”. I have been known to drag salespeople kicking and screaming into new software and routines. I am the one that pushes people of their comfort zone cliff. I am

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  5. Aaron

    Is the most recent addition to the www.connectzone.com team. Since he is kind of new-I don’t know him inside and out like I do the rest of the crew. Here is what I do know: he has got to be one of the most cheerful employees I have ever had, surely he most have bad days like the rest of us-but it never shows-not even a little bit, he is willing to do any task assigned and I mean anything. Aaron will go help on a cabling install, he will crop photos for our website, he is always on time and extraordinarily polite and that quality is really hard to find in the “X” generation. Now I will tell you a secret. Aaron is a type A perfectionist about everything. I feel bad for him; being an obsessive compulsive perfectionist myself I know it is really burdensome. As his employer on the other hand it works out really well for me.

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  6. Cable Stud

    One of the unique things Connectzone.com can offer that many of our competitors can’t is custom cables. We make them fast, we make them to spec, we guarantee them and Cable Stud (known as Ed to his Mother) oversees the whole process. If it isn’t built right-it doesn’t get past him. Period.

    Ed and his co-workers also manage our warehouse stock and believe me when I tell ya-they know if anything is out of place. As a matter of fact our entire warehouse crew is very intolerant of disorder. Speaking of which you should see how clean and polished they keep their cars!

    If you meet him, you can call him Cable Stud or Ed but if you call him Edward-trust me he won’t answer to it. [email protected]. Lastly-in the event you want to know what we look like in real life visit our company facebook page Connectzone. If you do, don’t ask me who “Cable

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  7. PZ

    PZ is another one of our amazing employees. Remember in the networking blog entry I told you about hidden skill sets? Well here is an example of what I was talking about; this guy can take amazing pictures of little teeny tiny connectors with a very complicated digital camera so we can display them on our website. He and some other employees made videos of how assemble our new line of data cabinets at www.connectzone.com. I am told by other employees he knows how to write html code (whatever that is).

    His formal job is as our incoming and outgoing transport guru and he does a superior job. He is astonishingly detailed-I can ask him for a copy of a signed packing slip for will call from 3 years ago and he knows right where it is. He seemed pretty shy when he first came to work with us but overtime has revealed a really fun personality and is a loyal, dedicated employee.

    If you want to call him-you will
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  8. Dann the Cable Man

    He has been in the Wire & Cable industry since he was 14 years old running an old Eubanks automated wire stripping machine for his father, in his grandfathers garage; getting paid $0.50 for every 5,000 wires he stripped. The job was easier than is sounds as he basically sat & watched the machine in case there was a problem. That was in 1976 a lot has changed in the industry since then. Dann is our fearless leader here at Connectzone.com. He is also the idea and corporate direction guy. And he knows a little bit about cabling and connectivity. Daniel Oberholtzer Daniel Oberholtzer

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  9. Who is Jemma Jr.?

    You would spot her instantly in our office. Behind every successful leader-there is a Jemma sweeping up the consequences of genius. Our office has two Jemma’s. I am Jemma one-not because I am better than Jemma Jr. but because I was here first and I coined the name. It came out of a movie called “A Good Year”. It’s a great movie starring Russell Crowe and has something for men and women-so boys don’t be afraid to rent it because it’s a chick flick. If you have seen the movie-you will understand the meaning of being a Jemma.

    A Jemma is essential to every executive and if you don’t have one-I recommend you get one and do it with some urgency! You see Jemma is the office Jedhi Master she is also a Japanese Ninja combined with Master Po and a couple of encyclopedias. If Jemma were a race car she would have the capacity to travel at the speed of sound, in all wheel drive and have a shift on the fly feature.

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