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A Proper Send-Off

Today was Megan Sellers last day with AnsonEDP. She is leaving to become the Marketing Project Manager with North Carolina's Southeast, an economic development agency which provides support services for an 18-county region, including Anson.

Megan joined AnsonEDP in December of 2016 as Existing Industry Coordinator. She has been a tremendous asset to the organization and her presence will be missed around the office and across the community.

To thank Megan for her service and to wish her well in her future endeavors, we held a drop-in party for her today at the Chamber. Dozens of board members, elected officials, community leaders and other people she had touched during her relatively short time with us stopped by to say farewell. It was a proper send-off... because that's the way civilized people are supposed to treat each other.

By way of contrast, on my last day at Statesville Regional Development there was no party, no cake, no parting gifts, no well-wishers dropping by to offer congratulations. Of course, I had only been with the organization for 9 1/2 years, so I can see how my board might have been reluctant to spend $30 on a cake or to acknowledge publicly that I played any role in a decade that brought 2,000 jobs and nearly half a billion dollars in capital investment to the city. If you ask them about it, I'm fairly certain they would say, "he was paid for his time, that's all the recognition he needs."

After that long and emotional day, I did get together for a beer with my former boss, who had been similarly cast aside a few months earlier, and our executive assistant. When we had finished our drinks we shook hands all around, wished each other the best and went our own ways. Three days later, I began my new job here in Anson County, and I swore one thing to myself; the people on my team would be treated with respect and decency, and if petty politics and juvenile bickering ever threatened that I would simply walk away. I will never be party to hurting people for the sport of it.

We love Megan and, even though we will miss her a lot, that makes it easy to celebrate her success. Perhaps her replacement will be less beloved, perhaps more, but one thing is for certain, as long as I am around they will be respected and they will be acknowledged for their contributions and accomplishments.

Because that's how decent people treat each other.

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