My allergic reaction made me feel beautiful.*

For a few weeks now when people say October 1st I get this funny feeling, like something is important about October 1st. It was yesterday that I realized it...October 1st is my anniversary at work. It has now been three years! It's amazing how fast time flies (or how exotic Wisconsin isn't*).


I have to say, I am a little surprised that it's been three years. In three years I have gone through:

• 3 co-workers (doing the payroll position)
• 3 CEOs
• 2 bosses
• I have processed 78 terminations (with just as many (if not more) new hires)
• I know the names and faces of all 135 employees (and also still remember all the 78 terminations)...this is big for me
• I have coordinated Angel Tree, blood drives, food bank donations, bake-offs, cook-offs, pumpkin carving contests, random pizza lunches, an ice-cream appreciation day, brown bag sessions, interviews, Onboarding meetings, and tickets for Richmond Flying Squirrels games.
• I have scanned every document in the HR department (close enough at least)
• I have moved the chairs throughout two buildings, multiple times for multiple meetings
• I have attended several employment law seminars, a semester of a PHR class (and would have taken the test if they would have allowed me), and various webinars.
• I conducted an internal I-9 audit
• I am a notary
• I have learned payroll and recruiting
• I am in charge of the suggestion program, the recognition program, the education reimbursement program, facilities and the main page of our Intranet.
• And much more.

I've come a long way from the days when I just sat in my workstation writing a book and wondering if I had made a mistake by switching jobs. ...I write at home now (*cough* that means I still wonder if I made a mistake :P)