I try to do something special for my staff twice a year — once in the summer and once during the holidays. This year, we held our staff summit yesterday and today, we went for massages in Wading River, had a nice relaxing spa lunch and headed to the Vineyards on the North Fork of Long Island.
I felt a little like David Cassidy driving my husband’s SUV with every seat taken on the three rows, but it worked out great. (In past years when the economy was better, I would take a limo.)
The first winery we visited was Martha Clara. I had a gift certificate for a wine tasting there that I got when I was awarded a top 50 women award from Long Island Business News. The sommelier poured us five or six glasses of wine and told us the whole history of Martha Clara. She even teared up a little when she spoke about Martha Clara not seeing her grandchildren.
Not to sound hard, but I really didn’t care. Ellen Heydt and I were giggling at the end writing notes back and forth to each other like we were back in grade school. This woman would not shut up! I didn’t even hear what she was saying at some point, all I heard was waaaaa…. waaaaaa…. waaaaaaa…. waaaaaaa.
After the tasting we went on to visit two or three other north fork wineries before heading back to the office.
Lori Alexy, VP, drove Lisa Gordon, supervisor who heads up the Rochester office, to the airport to catch the next plane back to Rochester. Jillian Beroza, our Art Director and Kristie Galvani, our Senior VP, headed home. Ellen and I went into the office to check the mail and our phone messages.
Kristie lent us the key to get into the building. When I put the key in, it wouldn’t come out. So, we left it there. When we came back down, we still couldn’t get it out. We were saying to each other to just leave it in and leave, but we kept trying. About 10 minutes went by and Ellen finally got the key out of the door.
Wow, success at another staff retreat.
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