The life of a contractor is an interesting one; you often have quite a niche area of expertise that you are passionate about and excel at, and you travel far and wide to help people wherever you are needed. Beats sitting at a desk from 9-5, doesn’t it?
Josephsen Hardwood Floor Company has been repairing, installing, and refinishing hardwood floors in southern New Jersey for 3 generations. Fred Jr. will drive around to people’s houses in his van, where he will get to work crafting top quality floors and stairfaces at reasonable prices. But while you might be happy to have Fred come over and rip up your floors, creating clouds of dust with his shrill, noisy sander, what do the canine inhabitants think about this intrusion? I would bet that they are not impressed, and that’s putting it kindly.
Luckily, Fred understands and goes out of his way to show his appreciation for his doggy ‘helpers.’ Obviously forming a good relationship with the pups whose homes he has so rudely invaded, he started making them his ’employees of the week,’ a regular doggo treat for his Facebook followers. It’s fair to say that this has been a hit, with people leaving reviews like: “I love the dog pictures!! I’d hire this company just because of the dogs!!”
“I’m sure you absolutely do top quality work! Anyone who does something so wonderful as to feature customers loved pets has to be amazing in character and quality. Best of luck with more successful business and most of all PLEASE never stop posting your “employee’s of the week”….. If you lived near us, we would certainly use you when new floors are needed and we have 5 dogs and 6 turtles you could “feature”…..LOL….. I’ll be following…for the amazing photos…Our country needs more people like you, who love and respect pets.”
Scroll down to check out some of Fred’s ’employees of the week’ for yourself, and let us know what you think in the comments!
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Meet Bailey, this week’s Employee of the Week. His happy tail moves quicker than a hummingbird’s wings. He’s a good boy and I enjoy his company on the job site.
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Hello fans! Meet Lacey, a Portuguese Water Dog, and this week’s Employee of the Week. All I can say is that she is an awesome co-worker and the pleasure is all mine!
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Meet Shoots and Scores, this week’s Employees of the Week. They are lab brothers and keeping close eyes on me this week.
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We feel like it has been fureverrrrr (get it?) since we have had an Employee of the Week! We just had a long streak of working in unoccupied or no pet homes. Today, the streak is broken! Meet our Employee of the Week Tucker. He may be a big mommy’s boy, but he is enjoying his family’s new Acacia hardwood floors.
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Update on the “Dexter Employee of the Week” post: we cool! Lol
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A returning Employee of the Week. Meet Dexter. Again. He doesn’t seem to thrilled to have me back in his life. We have an understanding, so it works.
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Josephsen Hardwood Floors owner Fred sharing a moment with his full time employee Kona, at home this morning. We are experiencing blizzard conditions here in the Northeast today.
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Meet Otis, this week’s Employee of the Week. Otis is a one year old Lab pup that likes to catch tennis balls hit with a hockey stick. Great boy and a great goalie, too!
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We’ve been working on a big job with no pets. However, we wanted to share a little overdue doggo happiness. This is Isla, our own favorite girl. She was rescued from the streets of Puerto Rico. All the people, pets, and satos, of that beautiful island, are in our thoughts and prayers today.
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Meet Buster, our current Employee of the Week. The word must be out about these photos. Every time I pulled out my camera to take his picture, I felt like he began posing. Buster has a camera-shy sidekick named Sparky. I hope to feature him by the end of the week.
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Happy National Dog Day. Today (and everyday, really) we are celebrating our own two dedicated companions Kona, a chocolate Cocker Spaniel, and Isla, a Dachsund Beagle rescue from Puerto Rico.
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It looks like we have many brand new Facebook fans today. Welcome! We’re glad you’re here. We have a repeating Employee of the Week working with us today: Isla…our own dachshund beagle rescue. Have a great day.
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Huh. We went viral. Last night our son told us that his tweet was viewed by more than 15 million people. We are certainly feeling the love! It doesn’t matter if you’re just following for the dog photos, we’re happy to have you on our journey. We’re just going to keep doing what we do: making floors beautiful and sharing pics of the new employees we meet along the way.
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Meet Ralph, our Employee of the Week. He was on vacation during the beginning of this job….a repair, replace and refinish project.
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It’s hard to get any work done when there is a comedian on the job site! Meet Baron, this week’s Employee of the Week. Such a happy and jovial soul!
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This week’s Employee of the Week. Her name is “Paulie Girl.” She usually would hang with me…..until the sanders turned on! Great girl!
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Meet Tucker, this week’s Employee of the Week. In between chasing squirrels, and admiring himself in his new sweater, he found time to supervise me while I removed two layers of old flooring, before installing a new floor. Good boy!
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Meet Frida. She is this week’s Employee of the Week, even though she was constantly biting my shoelaces, and trying to persuade me to let her outside. Sweet, sweet girl.
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Meet our Employee of the Week: Harley! He’s the happiest helper we’ve ever had on the job.
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We neglected to post this week’s EMPLOYEES of the week. Brothers from another mother, they are all rescues that are going to have a tough time damaging the commercial laminate we installed in their home this week. Pictures top, rocking 3 legs, is Bill W. Bottom left is Einstein, and bottom right is Monroe. Good boys!
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Employees of the Week/Supervisors of the Year Isla (left) and Kona (right). We are refinishing our own floors this week at Josephsen Hardwood Floors HQ!
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Sweet girl Harley. Our Employee of the Week!
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Meet Vito, our current Employee of the Week. I’m going to have to call it a “long distance” working relationship since he won’t get too close to me. He’s always sticking his tongue out at me, too. These unions!
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This is Palmer, this week’s Employee of the Week
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Introducing Ollie. Our Employee of the Week
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Tika. Our Employee of the Week. Great girl!
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Meet Bo, a fast contender for this week’s Employee of the Week, on the job. Literally. On the job.
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Do I take away her Employee of the Week Award? Talk about laying down on the job!
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This is Kona Josephsen, our dog #employeeoftheweek
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Looks like we have an Employee of the Day. Her name is Pita
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Seamus
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Maxers
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Max
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Killer
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Hershey
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Harley and Ruby
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Bailey
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Chaz
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We know it’s been a while. We have been on some pretty lonely jobs, lately. However, today, meet Abigail, our current Employee of the Week! She is a beauty…..more like an enthusiastic and charming hostess! It’s going to be a pleasure working with this “little” lady this week.
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Meet Sophie, our Employee of the Week. She keeps an eye on me while I refinish previously prefinished floors.
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