It’s been a few weeks since I last introduced one of the “young gun” employees of Small Dog. This week I wanted to introduce readers to one of my favorites, Nessy. Nessy, short for Vanessa, is on the right of the attached picture, shown during a trip to the fair with other SDE employees.
She joined Small Dog in early 2011 and has been working the retail sales floor in South Burlington. Recently, she’s been making the journey to our Waitsfield headquarters to help out in our Hammerhead division once a week and that’s how I’ve gotten to know her a little better.
Nessy is originally from Maine and I think that is the basis of her very down-to-earth personality. What I love most about Nessy is how optimistic she is about life and its little idiosyncrasies. She seems to look on the bright side of things and appears to be perpetually happy. You can’t help but feel the same when you spend time with her.
Nessy is a recent college graduate and she studied Chinese which is why we asked her to travel to Waitsfield to assist Hammerhead. She’ll help us converse with our representatives in China and translate documents when needed and she’ll get a chance to test her skills. Perhaps she’ll teach me a few Chinese phrases while she’s here!
Recently out of college, she doesn’t have a dog but she does have a rabbit — a French Angora named Lenore. (That’s a very sophisticated name for a bunny, but not quite as sophisticated as my cat’s name, Mrs. Middleton-Snugglesworth, but that’s a whole other story!) Lenore is very fond of electronics and by “fond,” I’ve been told, she likes to eat them. She is also very good at shedding — a good trait for an Angora bunny to have.
If you’ve been to our South Burlington store, you’ve probably had a chance to talk to Nessy. If not, be sure to introduce yourself. She’s the young woman with the winning smile who also knows a heck of a lot about technology!