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The recent arrival of a new automated coffee machine in the Finance/Sales/Marketing kitchen has brought delicious dark roast coffee to many - and the end of an era for one. With the fancy schmancy new coffee dispenser, the brew-your-own lineup of coffee pots has been put away. And, with no responsibility falling on the taker of the last cup to ...

  It seems like there is always a good bit of talk about what a fun place ETC is to work but last night I was lying awake in bed obsessing over a number of different issue I need to deal with and felt that someone should address the fact that we do real work here J Now I’m defiantly of the belief that ETC is a great place to work but it is ...

After three and a half years of living and working in Europe I have only come to grasp one thing with absolute certainty: Europe is not the U.S.A. and the European Union is not a single market place. Granted, it is very nice to have a single currency in the form of the EURO. In my case, I left a nice comfortable job as the Field Service Manager ...

Figured it was worth explaining what Isaac (and some of the rest of the summer help) was REALLY doing with those big stacks of paper in a previously-posted photo. There's a group of interns helping ETC to scan an estimated three million pages of systems documents as part of a larger effort to be more paperless around the office. The result of ...

I spent just over four years in the United States NAVY as a Fire Control Technician. (Like missile firing not the hot red flames and smoke type of fire). It did not take me long to learn that the word NAVY was actually an acronym for Never Again Volunteer Yourself. But in the world of ETC you do not need to volunteer, you just need to show a ...

Summer has arrived, and with it, waves of interns and LTEs and other part-timers have descended on the ETC campus in Middleton. They're helping out in all kinds of ways, across all areas of the company. And, universally, they all seem like they're here to really work. Here's a pictorial look at just a few of them, caught in the action during ...

I may work in a cubicle here, but it definitely doesn't feel like this. I think somebody must have been weary of this chart when our building was designed. Hence the many common areas, conference rooms with windows, the deli, the picnic blankets......

Any Harvard Business Review readers in the audience today? Before I started working at ETC, I wouldn't have raised my hand and wouldn't have felt like I was missing anything relevant to me. Now, after reading through a few issues passed on to me by a coworker, I've done a 180. It is good stuff. One recent article, ''The New Leader's Guide to ...

David talked about our gearing up for Lightfair and the exciting new products that we'll be showing there. Back in the R&D department, those products are known by their code name: Wildwood. The R&D and Manufacturing teams are in ''total immersion mode'' getting these products completed and ready to ship. And what a lot of products there ...

Over the past handful of days the Broadway Deli in Town Square has featured an impressive run of lunch cuisine, including grilled hamburgers (like, actually grilled, by Dave) on May 6, teriyaki chicken sandwiches on May 12, and a double-whammy of baked potato bar (all the toppings you could want, and all for under $2.50!) and BBQ beef ribs today. ...