Growing up in Girl Scouts, I never imagined I would work for them one day. For that matter, I never knew there was a headquarters with staff at all. But things were meant to be I guess, because the job kinda fell in my lap years down the road. Now I've been working here more than 3 years, and I'm pretty sure this is not a very normal place to work sometimes. So here are a few quirky things I thought about us:
6 Quirky Things About Working At the Girl Scouts
(1) Almost 60% of our organization’s budget depends on a non-professional sales force of little girls selling cookies.
(2) Our staff meetings are half-day affairs, often including a large amount of food, word scramble games or craft-making contests.
(3) We get 20 vacation days, 2 personal days and 12 sick days a year, right off the bat (no tenure required), plus another couple vacation days for giving money to the Girl Scout and United Way fund raising campaigns.
(4) Only 2 men work in our office – and about 40 women.
(5) You have to wear your Girl Scout uniform to work on Juliette Low’s birthday and the Girl Scout birthday.
(6) My first day of work - no joke - was spent in a little cabin in Rowan County on the coldest day of the year, and we cooked our lunch over a fire and made brownies in a dutch oven (basically a cardboard box covered in aluminum foil that you heat with individual coals).
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MAN do I miss those paid vacation days! Not so much the staff meetings...except all the free chocolate and breakfast.
Score me a box of Lemon Chalet Creams if you see one! Ours are way gone.
So... do they need any full-time people over there to run their computer networks or anything? B/c my hubby would happily be the 3rd male at the place for a chance to have that much vacation!
And I'm only partly kidding :)
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