Rewind the clock back to July 2003. We had been in Garland for a total of 7 months and I had been working for the City of Garland at the Landfill for the same amount of time.
I had recently applied for a Customer Service position with New Accounts in Customer Service and had received a call from who would become my new boss, Grover Moore. I enthusiastically accepted the job offer and was ready to start at my new job. I would stay with New Accounts for six months and move on to the Credit Department, still within the Customer Service division, leaving behind one of my all time favorite supervisors..
Not long after being there, Grover Moore was moved to Credit and became the supervisor of Credit. I couldn't be more excited. It was always nice to know that when you do your job as you are told and a citizen requests to speak with your supervisor, they pretty much back you up in what you are doing.
I left the Credit Department in May 2006 to come to my current job in Safelight but even before I left, I would always ask Grover when he was going to retire and his response was always "soon," but it seemed like it never came around.
Finally one morning I got an email from a co-worker letting me know that Grover was going to retire. I was so happy, not because he was leaving the city, but because he had put in his time and deserved to be work-free and go home to his beloved ranch in Sherman.
Here are a few pictures of his retirement celebration. Mr. Moore will always be one of my favorite bosses. "Good luck to you sir."
