{"id":2237,"date":"2025-05-12T12:31:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2025-05-12T12:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:33:18","slug":"dug-from-the-archives-a-business-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unliterate.net\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/dug-from-the-archives-a-business-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Dug from the Archives: A Business Card"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On November 20, 2003 I was hired at Marchese Computer Products in Batavia, New York<\/a>. Originally I was the good-looking person who was seen when you walked through the front doors my initial tasks revolved around answering the phone, taking computers in for service, and performing front-end sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

My first full week of work netted me $300.00 on November 26. My first month of work provided a cool $1601.00 and a $25.00 Christmas bonus. I was working minimum wage in a computer shop that did everything<\/em> and I loved every minute of it.<\/p>\n\n\n

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http:\/\/www.mcpinc.com\/employee%20pics\/matt2.jpg<\/a> (captured December 26, 2005)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

A year later I was migrated to the back end to work on fixing PCs, help administrate the WNYNet.net dial-up ISP<\/a>, and do general awesomeness. With this responsibility I was allocated a business card to hand out when working with customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fast forward to Friday, May 9, and I get an interesting Facebook Message from Tom. Apparently they were cleaning up the shop and they came across something I’d be very interested in:<\/p>\n\n\n

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One last business card made it 20 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n