harryhides
Member
Hi Chris and thanks for doing this. I hope you are relaxed and have your favorite beverage beside you.
Tell us a little about yourself, your hobbies, interests, sports and the kind of music you like.
I’m 59, thrice-divorced, married to my job, my daughter has advised me next time I think about getting married I should just find a woman I hate and buy her a house. My spare time, if I have any, I spend piddling around my house. I know just enough about home improvement and interior design to be dangerous. I was formerly a professional photographer and a darkroom technician, but I spend more time framing than taking photos anymore. I prefer football and basketball to baseball and in a former job worked very closely with the Oakland Raiders, Oakland A’s and Golden State Warriors, though now I’m more of a Lakers and Angels fan. I listen to a wide variety of music, mostly smooth jazz, pop and some oldies
Please explain your association and what is it purpose?
The WFCA is much like most associations. Our primary goal is to raise the standards and practices in the industry, generate the sale of more floor covering and ensure the vitality and profitability of our members. We maintain a lobbying presence in Washington, DC to both monitor and propose (and sometimes oppose) legislation and regulatory activity impacting our members and floor covering consumers. To create customers for our members we have a web site (wfca.org) that functions as the premier source of unbiased information about every type of floor covering on the Internet. It’s connected to a powerful dealer locator that funnels those browsers into buyers and connects them with retailers. We have all kinds of benefits for our members, from favorable insurance rates to discounts on just about every imaginable business service from payroll to telephone answering on-hold messages, reduced freight rates to reduced credit card processing rates. Each member is also eligible to up to $500/annually in trade scholarship funds that can be used for just about any type of training, including our online program, Trainingspace.
Tell us a little about yourself, your hobbies, interests, sports and the kind of music you like.
I’m 59, thrice-divorced, married to my job, my daughter has advised me next time I think about getting married I should just find a woman I hate and buy her a house. My spare time, if I have any, I spend piddling around my house. I know just enough about home improvement and interior design to be dangerous. I was formerly a professional photographer and a darkroom technician, but I spend more time framing than taking photos anymore. I prefer football and basketball to baseball and in a former job worked very closely with the Oakland Raiders, Oakland A’s and Golden State Warriors, though now I’m more of a Lakers and Angels fan. I listen to a wide variety of music, mostly smooth jazz, pop and some oldies
Please explain your association and what is it purpose?
The WFCA is much like most associations. Our primary goal is to raise the standards and practices in the industry, generate the sale of more floor covering and ensure the vitality and profitability of our members. We maintain a lobbying presence in Washington, DC to both monitor and propose (and sometimes oppose) legislation and regulatory activity impacting our members and floor covering consumers. To create customers for our members we have a web site (wfca.org) that functions as the premier source of unbiased information about every type of floor covering on the Internet. It’s connected to a powerful dealer locator that funnels those browsers into buyers and connects them with retailers. We have all kinds of benefits for our members, from favorable insurance rates to discounts on just about every imaginable business service from payroll to telephone answering on-hold messages, reduced freight rates to reduced credit card processing rates. Each member is also eligible to up to $500/annually in trade scholarship funds that can be used for just about any type of training, including our online program, Trainingspace.
