And they loved it, absolutely loved it. And I tell you, to be honest with you, I enjoyed it too. You know, get really tired, lost some weight, was fantastic. Enjoyed every bit of it. And then, you know, I’d have to stay back and we’d have management meetings or… Read More
Yeah, they should have put ’em on there. I said well, there’s no sticks on the nest now. So day three, there’s still no sticks on the nest. So I said okay. I called on the radio and I said can you meet me, you know, behind-the-scenes I need to… Read More
Okay, why aren’t there sticks on the nest?… Read More
And the manager said we’ve put sticks out there three times and they’ve thrown ’em off. Okay, all right, that makes sense, now, tell me how you’re gonna resolve that. So the next, they said we’ll have it resolved by tomorrow. I said okay, went out tomorrow, all kinds of… Read More
I almost made the mistake of breaking up the pair because nobody was breeding. But all of a sudden one of the pairs started to breed. And you know how they like sticks and whatever on their nests. Well, I said to the staff put sticks on the nest. Okay. Read More
Went to the manager. Read More
I said did they get the message about sticks?… Read More
Yeah, I didn’t do hardly any hands-on, I mean, if there was an operation going, I might jump in and help out just because I was curious. Make rounds every day. Go different directions, different routes at different times. Not trying to catch anybody but just wanna see the zoo… Read More
The staff knew that. I had a couple managers say, you know, I’m tired of getting your emails ’cause you’re, you know, this, this. I said you know what I expect, you know what I’m gonna be looking for. Just get ahead of me and you won’t have to worry… Read More
And did you make rounds and is making rounds important?… Read More
And it gave you that yearning to wanna make sure that you were at the top of your game. You never wanted to be embarrassed that you didn’t know your animals, and that you didn’t understand their biology, and you didn’t know their scientific name, and you didn’t know where… Read More
And especially at the wild animal park, when we were doing management that had never been done before. I mean mixed herds of a dozen species in a hundred acres. Nobody had ever done that before. Boy, did we learn fast. And you talk about professional growth, whew. You learned… Read More
How involved were you in the day-to-day activities as director hands-on when you became the director?… Read More
Oh, I’ve been here two years, you know, I know that, it’s like, no, what do those two years consist of?… Read More
So that professional growth, if they don’t have the means to get a degree or some professional training, but they’re interested, and they’re doing reading, and so on, and so forth, I couldn’t ask for more. That’s fantastic. I wanna see the results of that. I wanna see them execute… Read More
That professional growth, learn your craft, learn your animals, do reading. Okay, I know everybody wants to jump on a computer now. Okay, that’s fine. I learn old school through books. But everybody wants to jump on a computer. Okay, great. Just use reliable sources is what I’m telling ’em. Read More
Very, very important. I can’t underline it enough. And I see people attempting to make shortcuts through that. Read More
How important was professional growth for your staff?… Read More
But I said to her manager, I said you need to watch her because she’s going down a path that on another animal evaluation, can you trust her accuracy?… Read More
Ah no, it just didn’t look right. I said no, it didn’t look right at all. It looked ugly, but slow the tape down. Let’s go back and look at it, you know, and see what was going on. We didn’t fire her over that. Read More