Why Is This
Website So Strange?
Walk into CompetitivEdge's spacious headquarters in Bloomfield, Connecticut and you'll see its not your typical work environment. Casual dress means shorts and T's in the summer, jeans and sweats in the winter, and the President never has her shoes on.
High-tech means state of the art computers and lighting, and wide open work spaces. And comfort means windows that open, lots of eclectic artwork, a ton of plants, lots of activity in the kitchen, and a jukebox CD-stereo.
You won't find a single newspaper. In fact, you'll see very little paper at all.
You'll meet Sarah, our official greeter. She's a six-year-old keeshond. Nki, our senegal parrot, provides day-long comic relief and samples everybody's lunch. Emily, our border collie, will show up with her wiggly-giggly and insist that you get in touch with your 'inner puppy'. And Icky, our adopted lizard (unless it turns out he's a gecko), will probably not do much at all.
Our employees all benefit from setting their own flexible schedule and an hours bank that allows them to chose their own holidays. This also benefits our clients, allowing us to stay open from 8 to 8, almost 365 days a year.
Initial training is computerized self-study, with guidance and assistance from a 'training buddy'. Advanced training and cross-training is all peer-based. Timothy, our scheduling supervisor, is a Macintosh computer.
We have no sales department.
CompetitivEdge's President frequently answers the phone. She thinks that's important.
We offer true telecommuting opportunities to fully-trained staff. For example, Jenn is working full-time, 100 miles away, as she goes for her master's in library science at Simmons.
We have a fictitious employee, named Tammy. She works nights and we refer all telemarketers to her. We also put the blame on Tammy when anything goes wrong.
We don't believe that landing your account is the most important thing. We believe that helping you find the best fit for your individual needs is. We'll gladly recommend competitor services when we think they can better serve you.
We also don't promise you the solar system and then deliver Pluto. We would much rather do it the other way around.
So we aren't your usual company. And we just couldn't bring ourselves to give you a website that looks like everybody else's. Explore a little, and enjoy your visit!
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