{"id":7243,"date":"2011-05-08T16:20:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T14:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=7243"},"modified":"2011-05-08T16:20:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T14:20:17","slug":"company-that-is-for-working-at-envy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/company-that-is-for-working-at-envy\/","title":{"rendered":"Company (that is for working at) envy .."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is there something like Company Envy? &nbsp;That is not for their products but for a place to work. &nbsp;I am fairly sure of it and most of us had this desire to work for one or other company be it Google, Facebook, IBM (did work for them) or even Microsoft. &nbsp;These are all big companies and are all over the press every day. &nbsp;We all know how well the employees get treated at GooglePlex and we have all heard stories about other companies.<\/p>\n<p>I have this secret that I have Company Envy and have been for the past couple of years. &nbsp;There is this fairly small company that is based in the Western Cape which I really want to go work for. I am not going to mention their name but people that do know me would figure this out fairly easy. &nbsp;Now you may ask, why, surely they not that much different than other companies. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So why do I want to work for them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I believe in the work they do and think they so far ahead in their field.<\/li>\n<li>I know lots of the people working there and they ethical, fair and commited to do the right thing.<\/li>\n<li>They work hard but at the same time ensure that there is balance between work and life .. you know that work\/life balance thing.<\/li>\n<li>They treat their employees as family which is more than can be said for most other companies in this day and age.<\/li>\n<li>Only the best gets the opportunity to work there and if you in the fortunate posotion then you know you one of the best.<\/li>\n<li>And the list goes on &#8230;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/91\/Mount_Kilimanjaro.jpg\/280px-Mount_Kilimanjaro.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"126\" \/>We all have this bucket list of things that we want to do and I do not think many include working at a specific company on their bucket list. &nbsp;Well it is on my bucket list together with climbing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mount_Kilimanjaro\">Mount Kilimanjaro<\/a> and playing golf on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standrews.org.uk\/The-Courses\/The-Old-Course.aspx\">Old Course at St Andrews<\/a> (done that and ticked off).<\/p>\n<p>I am sure the opportunity will present itself in near future and believe me, I will be ready to grab it with both my hands.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s to dreams coming true &#8230;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there something like Company Envy? &nbsp;That is not for their products but for a place to work. &nbsp;I am fairly sure of it and most of us had this desire to work for one or other company be it <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/company-that-is-for-working-at-envy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Company (that is for working at) envy ..<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}