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Day of Caring with Retail System Solutions
On May 8, 2008 our team participated in the United Way's Annual Day of Caring. Each year, hundreds from work places across the Rochester donate their time, talents, and energy to help local not-for-profit locations with improvement projects. This year, about 1,000 people from the Rochester and surrounding areas improved 70 sites.
While Kodak employees across the city participated, our working group was about 30 or so people from engineering, marketing, and various other groups from Retail System Solutions. Our team assembled very early in the morning at our office building to car pool into the neighborhood we were supporting. Our assignment was a city shelter that was in need of both painting and yard work.
I was assigned to the painting team which was split into floors so I spent most of my day on the third floor painting doorway trim and hallway walls. There was quite a lot to do in one short day so each sub-team tackled an area of the building.
From left to right: Greg Supranowitz & Kathy Bonsignore, Megan Schneider with Adam Smith looking on, Adam Smith, Roger Strong - - Photos courtesy of Jay Shelofsky during our Work Day
The results were impressive at the end of the day. I think that the team completed most if not all the needed painting and landscaping that our hosts required. Participating in this team gives as sense of helping the community.
Comments
Posted By: Peter Supranowitz (2/3/2009)
Comment: I saw a picture of Greg Supranowitz in your blog. Look at my name and you see the same. Can you help me contact Greg ? I am a german and live in Neuruppin.
Posted By: D. Scott Robertson (5/26/2008)
Comment: Phil: get up on the wrong side of the bed? Get a $10 memory card reader at Radio Shack, and you don't need a cable for your camera. Have a coffee and lighten up. Diedra: your team really did a nice thing for your community. Thank you.
Posted By: phil baker (5/26/2008)
Comment: As industry leader, Kodak ensures that accessories such as camera cables for the 340 essentially disappear and necessitate more purchasing of Kodak camera equipment. This is sort of a planned obsolescence strategy that Andrew Carnegie would have cringed at. It's too bad. Cables go bad, their essentially impossible to find -- and if you can't find one at Ebay, then you KNOW it's an effective Kodak strategy. Otherwise we enjoyed it. We'll take the rest of the photos that the disk allows, then pass the camera around so that people can see, and I, the owner, have the full rights to hurl the unit over the large bridge that's near out home. Great strategy, as I wish you all pleasant dreams, as I remain, phil baker Alton, IL
Posted By: Jun Maruyama (5/26/2008)
Comment: I think it is a wonderful social contribution.