Farewell Sears Holdings
Today was my last day as the Manager of Email Marketing Transformation at Sears Holdings. I spent 14 months there doing what I love which is email. I can certainly brag about my accomplishments there, but I wont, simply because I don’t want too.
However, I do want to say that during those 14 months, I was able to establish great working/personal relationships with a ton of folks. I consider each one of these people my friends before calling them my co-workers. I learned a lot about myself and about others and I want to thank all of those folks that contributed to my enrichment. What became evident to me today was that I was a person who had an effect on these people as well. What was supposed to be a small intimate going away party turned into a bar room full of about 25-30 people all coming out to wish me well in my new position. They showered me with gifts and lots of laughs and for that I am truly grateful.
I mean it when I say that these are people that I can/want to hang out with. They are not people I just work with, but they are people I want to be friends with. These folks made work fun for me and although it was only 14 months, made it seem like it was only 4.
I am honored and proud to have known and worked with these folks and will most certainly keep in touch with them. What makes it so cool to leave SHC is to know that I made a difference not only in the email program, but these folks’ lives as well. What they don’t realize is that I received more from them than they will ever know.
With that, farewell Sears Holdings email program…..hello to my new career and my friends who hung out with me tonight….you are more than welcome to come by anytime….I will always have my door open for you.
