Inter-Office Guitar Blog Contest: Entry # 2
By April on May 20 Filed In Austin, Texas, Live Music, Organic, Sweet Leaf Tea Company News Add a Comment
Entry # 2 by Elizabeth Barber
Accountants Can Blog Too….
Sweet Leaf Tea is becoming more and more technology savvy. When I first started at Sweet Leaf we had a basic website that maybe got updated once a quarter. We didn’t have a MySpace page or a Facebook and certainly not a Twitter account. All this new twittering and blogging can be intimidating for the non-creative types like me. But I decided to show the internet world that Accountants can blog too…
So I thought I would do my first blog about one of my favorite Sweet Leaf experiences. It took place not long after I started, and like I said, back in the day we were just a small company, with an even smaller spending budget. I was all excited to go on my first business trip ever…I felt like I was really becoming a professional…man was I in for a surprise. I was headed down to Mission, TX to visit our manufacturing plant with one of my favorite co-workers, Selensky.
Normally, I am a complete control freak, surprising I know, and would have made all my own travel arrangements but this was a work trip so it was left to our new (and short lived) office manager. She was trying to learn how to use Priceline (remember we are on a budget) but just hadn’t quite figured the whole name your own price bit out yet. Soooo…she bid $75 on a $60 a night hotel…and won…brilliant I know. So five hours of road tripping later we arrived at the glorious motel. “This is it?…the doors are on the outside!” I said to Selensky in disbelief. Yes, I have never lived that one down by the way. So they show us to our rooms and it doesn’t take me long to figure out the window in mine doesn’t lock! I can’t stay in here! So poor Selensky has to escort me back to the front desk to get another room. They apologized immensely and offered up two of their “suites”. The suite was a big box with 4 Queen size beds and a small table in the corner. There were questionable stains on the floor and I had to wear socks the whole time. I tried not to touch anything and had to blot dry with the white crunchy towel after my shower because I was too freaked out to actually wrap it all the way around me.
I was more than happy to check out of the motel in the morning and head to the plant. I had one of the best breakfast tacos I have ever had and then took a tour. It is pretty amazing to see in person. Take a look for yourself by clicking on the following video watch?v=xzr-JMwdOP8.
Despite staying in the worse hotel I have ever stayed in and feeling a little less than “professional”, I had a blast with Selensky and we still talk about that trip to this day. Even though we have grown our CEO still uses Priceline and bunks up with David in order to save a buck. You realize pretty quickly at Sweet Leaf we don’t waste money on fancy hotels and over priced meals. We spend our money where it counts, on getting our message out to our consumers.
Elizabeth & Selensky telling trade secrets
