Verizon Team-Building
Greyt Rub-A-Dub-Dub
(or Verizon Goes to the Hounds)
June
27 , 2002
On the afternoon of June 27, 2002, the Network Engineering and
Planning-West management team, along with a few guests from other
departments, participated in a community service team-building
activity with Greyhounds Unlimited (GU). The employees visited
the Lemon's kennel where they basically had a mini "Greyt
Rub-A-Dub-Dub" (cleaned the stalls, washed the food and water
dishes, and bathed, walked and spent some one-on-one time with
a few of the adoptable retired racing and rescued greyhounds).
GU's webmaster (a.k.a. Dave Gillen) was on-site to take pictures
of the newly arrived greyhounds so the employees were requested
to pose the hounds and move aside to be out of the picture.
In addition to Susan Lemon, Verizon's own Jim DeGraff (also a
GU Board Member) was on hand to provide direction and insight
as to the handling and care of the greyhounds.
Toward the end of the day, to make sure the team was paying close
attention, they were given a quiz (which will be included in the
next newsletter).
The employees made a cash donation, which Verizon matched, the
hounds received a little extra attention, and a greyt time was
had by all!
Just another opportunity for spreading the GREYT word!
For the visual story, click on one of the thumbnails below to
see a larger photo.
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Is this how
you walk a greyhound?
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Hey, this
is pretty cool!
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Why do I always
get dish washing duty?
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Sweep those
kennels clean!
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Hey, he's
sweeping the kibble into my kennel!
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Teaching about
the "two finger" rule of collars.
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Water those
greys.
Watch them grow!
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That first
tentative touch...
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What's this?
Oooo, Manna from Heaven!
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Greyhound
kisses are like angel kisses.
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Manning the
"drying station."
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The reason
we're all here.
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Yeah, I know
how to do this.
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I'm still
on dish washing duty!
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Really, I'm
just looking for a dry towel.
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Story and photos are courtesy of Colleen Holden.
You can download and view the above photos as a slide show. Before
you begin, you should know that it is approximately 1.1MBytes.
It will take about 7 1/2 minutes to download with a 28.8kbps modem.
It will take about 4 minutes to download with a 56.6kbps modem.
If you want to watch the slide show, click
this link, go get a cup of coffee, then watch the show!
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