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KEN GOODRICH:
The best home service companies do background checks and drug tests on prospective employees, but at Goettl Air Conditioning and The Sunny Plumber, we take those evaluations even further, because we want you to LIKE the people who come to your home. I mean really LIKE them. This is going to sound crazy, I know, but I make sure my dog Sadie is there when I meet a prospective new hire. Sadie is a Wheaten Terrier. If Sadie goes straight to a person and gives them her Wheaten Greetin’, I know you’re going to be really comfortable with that person in your home. But if Sadie goes off and hides, there’s no way that person is comin’ to work for Goettl or Sunny. Sadie is never wrong. So now you know I’m crazy. But isn’t it okay to be crazy about hiring likable, happy people that will make sure the customer is delighted? Isn’t it okay to be crazy about old fashioned Do-The-Right-Thing customer service? Goettl and Sunny are fabulous companies to work for, and they’re fabulous companies to call. Because everyone who works here is Sadie Certified. Goettl, G-O-E-TT-L, it’ll keep you cool, but it’s hard to spell.
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“From the nineteen-fifties until a few years before she died, in 2009, destitute at the age of eighty-three, Vivian Maier took at least a hundred and fifty thousand pictures, mostly in Chicago, and showed them to nobody. It’s telling, perhaps, that one of her favorite motifs was to shoot her own shadow. For decades, she supported herself as a nanny in the wealthy enclaves of the city. But her real work was roaming the streets with her camera (often with her young charges in tow), capturing images of sublime spontaneity, wit, and compositional savvy. When pressed about her occupation by a man she once knew, Maier didn’t describe herself as a nanny. She said, “I am sort of a spy.” All the best street photographers are.

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- Andrea K. Scott, The New Yorker, Nov. 8, 2018

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