I was so excited that I had a full-time job lined up when I got my diploma. I moved to Chicago a week after graduation from Western Michigan University and started my new job as a Retail Database Specialist. My work station was next to Yolanda Thomas and Tony Dragel. I took the 'El' to work. I was so nervous about switching trains, but was so glad I had taken the route a few days before to make sure I had it down.
Information Resources was located at 150 N. Clinton in downtown Chicago. It was near the Metra Station.
The original members of my team were: Chris Blackwell, Yolanda Thomas, Tony Dragel, Wayne Onak, Jeanette Walls, Dave, and Alison Basista. A few months later Josh Bulak and Lilly Martinez joined the group. Then, Jennifer and Ed Slivinskas started in our department. Bryan Kerr, Don, Liz, Joe Idstein , Ceylon Hayes, and Crystal Cooper were the last members to begin in our group. Right before I left, Ian Stevens and Darren Hobson were transferred into our group, along with several others.
This was the best group of people to work with. We had so much fun together after work. We went out for lunches to celebrate birthdays and went out occasionally after work.
My position was to work on running reports and fixing the data for different grocery store item categories. Each of us had a group of retailer accounts that we worked on. We had to use the Unix system to run the reports. On the weekends, we were on a rotational schedule and were responsible for monitoring the systems. There were some weekends where I would spend 8 hours on Saturdays and 4 hours on Sundays working. We didn't get paid for the weekend work, as we were salaried. Some time later, we got paid a small amount for our weekend work which was really nice.
Our company had flex schedules, as well as every other Friday off, if we put in an extra hour Monday-Thursday each week. I was on that schedule which was so nice for me, as I took the train home many weekends over the 4 years that I worked in Chicago.
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