It’s been a very interesting few years.
- Of course, I imagine that has been the case for most people in business.
The pandemic, ensuing financial problems and now inflation has kept my company practices evolving. But I guess I’m lucky that I work for a company that is of a size that it can stay nimble for changes. That was never more the case than when we were sent home to work from the central air conditioning of our homes. I wasn’t so sure that I’d see the inside of my office and enjoy the commercial HVAC of that building again. I just didn’t know if I would survive or if the company would be able to hang on. It was definitely all hands on deck that summer of 2020. For me, I had to serve customers. And I couldn’t always due that from the air conditioning comfort of an online meeting hundreds of miles away. I needed to be careful for sure but I also needed to get to our customers. Even though airlines kept strict mask mandates and employed HEPA filters, the company said no flying. So those in my position just packed up the car, put the air conditioning on high and hit the long, hot interstate. That’s the only method of travel we had open to us at the time. It worked out though because our company was nimble enough to get to our customers and we even gained market share during the worst of the global health crisis. At the end of each day that summer, I always knew just where to find the most consistent lodging. It was always the mid tier hotels off the interstate that had the old school wall air conditioning units.