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A decade at WM Group

Today is the tenth anniversary of working at WM Group for our Account Executive / mother hen, Karin Stone. For an entire decade

Karin Stone

she has organised, proofread, invoiced, quality-checked, project managed and generally whip-cracked like a trooper. Not to mention keeping us all fed and watered with her forever-stocked biscuit stash and delightful cups of tea.  

She began working with us back in 2002, and has seen us through an office move, a company name change and a few people who have come and gone. When Karin isn’t busy keeping us all in line (including clients), she leads an impressively active life which includes jive dancing, volunteer ushering at the theatre, and playing flute/percussion.

We don’t know how you do it Karin, but we’re glad you do!

Comments

Karin 15.05.2012

Frightening statistics Simon! I've had my uses (at least in the tea making dept lol!). And thanks Waynne too, and to all my colleagues who have been in touch with entertaining reminiscences. Jon has pointed out 'Back then we’d not heard of an ipod, nor a Justin Bieber (mixed blessings then).' Good times!

Waynne 15.05.2012

Congrats Karin! The old place wouldn't be the same without you!

14.05.2012

Karin, what a wonderful achievement. Thanks so much for all your help on projects over the years - especially Ciena, which continues to be a great team effort between us. It's great to know you're there to keep clients in line and make sure every t's crossed before documents go out the door.

Karin, in honour of your milestone, I've roughly calculated these awesome WM Karin stats - which are very rough estimates but anyway:

Phone calls: 39,000 (at least)
Documents proofed/checked: 5,200 (very conservative estimate on this one I think)
Spreadsheet entries: 52,000 (or something)
Hours worked: 15,000
Cups of tea made: 7,800 (enough to fill an olympic-sized swimming pool - not really, I just made that one up because it sounds good)

Congrats Karin!


Mark 14.05.2012

Congratulations! Here's to another 10?

Karin 14.05.2012

Yes, thanks for all the comments that are winging over to me via email, text and this blog! I was surprised on the day to find my desk decorated with balloons and bunting as you can see, and of course there was cake (chocolate, natch!) and a lovely present too!

Katie D 14.05.2012

Awww Karin! We love you! Congrats on your tenth anniversary at WM. I hope someone else has organised some cake without you having to remind them!!

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