Employee Spotlight
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Keith Kleinschmidt
Furniture
Where did you go to School?
Maple Grove (a 100 year old little red school house in the middle of the country) then Merrill Jr. & Sr. High then to Stout in Menomonie, WI.

What extra-curricular activities were you involved in?
Camping, hunting, fishing, biking.

What was your first paying job?
Working in a ginseng field.

What is your favorite childhood memory?
When I was age 11 or 12 catching a 12” rainbow trout with a stick with a piece of fishing line tied to the end in pool on a stream about 3-4’ across.

What games did you play when you were younger?
Risk, Monopoly, or any type of board or card game.

What is your favorite song?
Pink Floyd “The Dark Side of the Moon”

What song brings back a good memory and why?
A first or second grade choir singing “Jesus Loves Me”

What habit do you admire most about yourself or others?
I see in others a kindness, gentleness, tolerance, and patience that I don’t always see in myself.

Who has done something nice for you recently that you'd like to thank publicly?
Dan Kaiser, for taking time out of his busy day to talk and listen.

What talent do you wish you had?
To see the future.

If a stranger walked into your home, what might he/she regard as unusual?
The large amount of musical instruments, pianos, drums, electric guitars and bass, viola.

Tell us something about you that many don't know.
In the seventh grade I fell backwards while lifting weights and dislocated my left wrist and broke the right.

What is your most treasured possession?
Memories

What do you do in your spare time for fun?
Roller blade, garden, woodworking.

Where did you go on your last vacation?
Mexico

What is your favorite cuisine?
Middle Eastern, Chinese, Vietnamese, I love food and will eat almost anything.

How long have you been in the office products industry?
Started in 1982

What is your favorite part of your job?
Hearing the customer telling you that you have “won” a job/project.

What is the most unusual request you’ve had or thing you’ve had to do for a customer?
Nothing is that unusual only challenging us to be creative in our solutions.
 
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