Interview 26791 – Caption Index: 313
Went to the manager. Read More
Went to the manager. Read More
I said did they get the message about sticks?… Read More
And did you make rounds and is making rounds important?… 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 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
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
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
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
How important was professional growth for your staff?… Read More
Very, very important. I can’t underline it enough. And I see people attempting to make shortcuts through that. 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
If she doesn’t know her animal, doesn’t know the biology, isn’t looking at this logically. I’m upset about this too. What I’m really upset about is the fact that the staff missed this foal and the fact that the stallion was still on exhibit, they should have had that stallion… Read More
Do you know anything about horses?… Read More
Do you know anything?… Read More
His after the mare, have you done any reading on this?… Read More
I said the stallion wasn’t after that foal at all. He could care less about the foal. Now, the foal was there around mom ’cause that’s what the foal does. Read More