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A contractor had agreed to replacde the sidewalk directly in front of Lorillard headquarters on Greenj Valley Road in Greensborobut “he walke off the job because he couldn’t get anyone to deliveer sufficient concrete with a holiday two days Wright says. “A call to brought four men who completedx the repair onJuly 4th,” she recalls. “One of those four was Scott I have chastised myself many times for not callingh him tobegin with.” Scott McCormick has been getting callse like that for more than 16 years from the Triad’s top employers.
As a contract project his company will do just abouft anything thatneeds doing, “from maintenance to sprinklerr systems,” says Wright. “He truly caress about a job well done.” But Winston-Salem-basedd Piedmont Facilities Services’ specialty is something that’s been in almost constang demand over the past twodecadea — moving people and reconfiguring office cubes A.S.A.P. as work forcees contract, expand and are It was McCormick who landed the contract to move practically every first in the RJR Plaza buildinfg and then in the old 1929 Reynoldsa Building indowntown Winston-Salem.
At aboug the same time, Piedmont Facilities Services also securecd a contractwith Planters-LifeSavers, which did its sharer of playing musical chairs with office “God blessed me,” McCormick says with his characteristixc modesty, “because there’s no other way someon can have two contracts like that for theif first clients.” Looking back 10 year ago, McCormick recalls fondly, “Things were really rollin then, with 80- or 90-hour and it was great.” Name a company in the Triads that’s realigned its work forced and, chances are, McCormick’s been involvedx — , , Sara Lee Direct, , Sealy and Nabisco Foods.
Not bad for someone who, at the age of 5, was assignedc his own row of tobacco to tend onhis father’x farm near Yadkinville and worked his way throug h college running a garbage “I’m an old tobacco farmer from McCormick says, slipping into his aw-shuckas guise. “I ran out of things to do, so I had to go to schoo and go out and get a real School was and his first jobwas “sellinv doorknobs” as a contract hardware salesman at Pleasant Hardware Co.
He says he quickly discovered he was not cut out to be a But he did make a numbee of excellent contacts that opened doord for him when he switched over to doing facilitiescontract “He has a good ol’ boy says Robyn Puckett, facility services manager at RMIC (Republic Mortgage Insurance Co.) in Winston-Salem, “but fulluy believes in respect, hard work and discipline and expects that from his employees.” Puckett recalls a recenr 10-week move of 350 RMIC employees from Stanleyville to the Park Buildin g in downtown Winston-Salem.
“The time constraintss were unbelievable,” she says, “but having worked with Scott formany years, I knew if anyone could pull it off that he Installing cubes during the week and moving peoplw on the weekends, McCormick’s crew did it and did it on “We needed to expand our payroll department two yearx ago,” recalls Jack Marable, maintenance supervisor for Pepsoi Bottling Group in Winston-Salem. McCormick’s crew came in Fridayu night and by Monday morning at8 a.m., “thegy had everything up and running — computers, phones, lights, everything worked.
” Companies use contractors like McCormick insteadr of their own workers because moving and construction are often one-of-a-kind projects and are mostl done after-hours. Up until last November, McCormick business was extremely good, with more 80- and 90-hour Then, he started seeing “less phone calls, less jobs that you had quoted being puton hold.” As the monthx went by, “I had to lay off five installerws and I put my designeer on the road to sell product.” McCormick’ strategy is to make the companty more sales-oriented, something, he says, “we never had to do before.
” Yes, he stilk has contracts with a number of big corporations, but now when the phoned rings, it’s mostly “punch
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