Dallas Branches Culture – Jeff Davis Video Transcript

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I’ve been with ABC a
little over seven years.

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I love working at ABC because they just

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bring you in and make you feel
like a part of the family.

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You’re not just an employee,

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that you’re one of the family and they’re
going to take care of you and they impart

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that on you so that you take care
of your customers as well.

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So you look at them as not
customers, but is also a part of the family.

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ABC has definitely brought out some skill
sets in me that

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I didn’t know about in the beginning. I
was nervous about the communication with

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customers, but it’s actually one of my
favorite things, and it’s really brought

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that out in so many other
fashions other than work.

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You know, outside, personal life.

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ABC has impacted my personal
life in tremendous ways.

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It’s allowed me to provide for my family.

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We’ve been able to buy a home over
these times that I’ve been here.

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My family went from just my wife and I
and our young child when I started to

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now we have three and one on the way.

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So what brought me to ABC is I was working
in the culinary field before. I was, you

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know, in the kitchen doing my
normal thing. In comes the ABC guy,

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and I just started asking him some

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questions, pay, benefits,
and things like that.

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And it really impressed me.

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And I said, “Well, I’ve never had
any experience in pest control.”

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And he said they prefer that. They

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like to train people
the right way to do it.

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So I put in the application and
I went for a few interviews, felt the

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warmth of the interviews,
started out as a technician, and I’ve been

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able to work my way up into regional
director over about 10 guys underneath.

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Another great thing about working at ABC

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is the recognition. They notice you
when you are doing the right thing.

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One of our biggest thing is integrity.

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And that’s doing what, the right
thing when nobody’s looking.

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So not only will they, you know, give you

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a good attaboy, pat on the back,
they’ll send out an email.

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Not only do they reply to the email,

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they’ll come up in person, shake your
hand and give you a pat on the back.

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Say, “Good job.”

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So some of the things I love about working
at ABC is the wonderful health plan, a

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dental plan and vision plan that we
have definitely taking advantage of.

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We have paid vacation and
there’s a matching 401K.

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We have a wonderful profit share program
that also makes it the family feel when

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everybody’s pushing and getting
everything done and and profiting,

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we all benefit from that.

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So those are just some many things
that I love about working at ABC.