A turn-around at the door

by Sarah Podenski—Minnesota

I’m the Office Manager for the Twin Cities office, and I figured it was high time Office Managers were blogging! Yesterday I had a blogworthy story.

As we were preparing the crew to go out to turf, the phone rang. It was someone wanting to work for us, so I started the job call rap, asked her name and phone number and where she had heard about us.

She told me that someone came to her door the night before. “I have to admit, I’m twenty-three and I’ve only voted once. I feel like sometimes my vote doesn’t matter,” she said. But this canvasser who came to her door made her feel that even such a small thing like signing her name on a clipboard could have influence, could make change in her country. She admitted that when she heard the doorbell ring, she thought she’d just get rid of whoever it was and go back to what she was doing. “I was captured,” she said. “I had to stay and listen to everything he had to say.”

I’m so proud to be part of this office and part of this organization. We are empowering people, and it’s a wonderful thing.

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