Word: cavataio
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery. Work at something you enjoy, and that's worthy of your time and talent. Give people more than they expect, and do it cheerfully. Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know." Her boss Rudi Cavataio found the poster at Target and couldn't resist, but Lori hasn't had time to hang it up yet. "Maybe sometime I'll succeed in getting that success sign up," she jokes...
...white Reeboks, then changes into the greasy pair she keeps under her desk. She arrives early and stays late, managing the shop, working the phones, soothing the customers, ordering parts, keeping the books, making haircut appointments for the mechanics, test-driving all the cars. "She makes things happen," says Cavataio. "She's allowed the business to grow." Grow so fast, in fact, that they have been fighting the city to let them keep more cars on their cluttered lot than the city fathers would like. "I guess we didn't understand the politics of it all," Lori says...
...does now. She and Cavataio are seeking a new conditional-use permit, a battle that constitutes her baptism in politics. She has been pounding the pavement, knocking on doors, getting petitions signed. She makes no distinction between Democrat and Republican meddling. "They have no right telling us how to run our business," she says. "The only way for us to keep the number of cars down is to turn customers away...
...starting at $5.25 an hour and eventually making $35,000 a year. But the job was boring, and the predominantly male shop didn't seem understanding about her pregnancy and how everything was different now. When she went back to work after Sam was born, she quickly jumped at Cavataio's offer to go to RPM, as long as he would match her salary. She started three weeks later, and has barely taken a lunch break since. "I care about what's going on here," she says. "I want it to be just right. I want everyone to be happy...
| 1 |