Last week a Memphis Business Journal reporter came to my company’s office in the Falls Building to interview our CEO and VP of Marketing. She asked the VP of Marketing, “Does Paul Ryburn really work here?” (apparently a lot of people at the MBJ read my blog) and the VP brought her by to meet me.
“I didn’t think you really had a job!” said the reporter.
She did a great article on the company, which appeared in this week’s Memphis Business Journal and is also on the DowntownMemphis.com website. You can read the article here. The company sells employment verification services, and everything is accessible from a convenient, secure web-based control panel. We do all kinds of verification, from sniffing out lies about education and employment history on applications, to checking terrorist watch lists, sex offender registries, drug test results, and much more. In the interview, our CEO talks about how the Memphis branch has expanded from 6 people in 2003 to 55 people currently, and plans to hire 40 more. In fact, the New York office is closing and moving operations to Memphis, due to better cost of living and central location.
I’ve been there 8 months, and still enjoy working there, although I’ll admit it’s getting a bit crowded with all the hiring. We’re about to expand into most of the rest of our floor, though, so more space is coming soon.
Still taking recommendations for where health guru AL and I should have our next culinary adventure. Suggestions so far include Encore, Saigon Le (“you have to try the lemon grass tofu!” – yuk, tofu), Denny’s (I hope they were kidding), and a place I hold in even lower esteem than Denny’s (“I refuse to darken the door,” to use a Mikeyism). Keep the suggestions coming.
With temps in the 90s today, I’m staying inside, building my next online store. I’ll be at the Steve Cohen rally for a little while this evening at the Warehouse, probably out with friends at a bar or club afterward.