The university’s Finance & Administration Division celebrated its monthly Employee Appreciation Event Oct. 21 to recognize staff from the Engineering & Facilities, Finance, and Operations departments who were nominated during the past month for their commitment to MUSC Excellence.
 
Each month, employees with qualifying nominations for the Employee Recognition Program (ERP) during the preceding month are recognized at the monthly Event with an MUSC Excellence gift. Employees of the Quarter are selected by the Rewards & Recognition Committee (RRC) from the eligible nominations received during the quarterly period. The nominations exhibit outstanding work-related behavior or activities relating to the five Pillars of Excellence (people, service, quality, finance, and growth).
 
Employee of the Quarter winners
Employee of the Quarter winners are Linda Mitchell, from left, Emily Mills and Geraland Thompson.

“A fellow co-worker and important member of the payroll team was out on Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) for seven weeks. Her entire workload had to be covered by members of the payroll team or many university employees’ paychecks would have been affected. The time period in which the employee was out on FMLA is one of the most demanding time periods during the payroll year. The nominees stepped in to help out the department during this critical time. They worked as a team to determine how best to split the workload and comply with all of the deadlines, while continuing to provide excellent customer service. By these employee’s picking up extra duties, the university did not have to hire a temporary employee to cover the extended absence.”
Nominated by Angela Alford, manager, Denise Reddrick-Spann, supervisor, and Donna Rychwa, supervisor, University Payroll

Michael Bouissey, Parking Management (Operations)
“I contacted Mike to get some dimensions for a sandwich board in order to have a sign manufactured at the last minute. Critical notification that affected passengers at Parking Garage II had to be communicated to insure that they were inconvenienced as little as possible. Time was an issue since we didn’t get notification about demolition at the intersection of Jonathan Lucas and President streets until July 21. The demolition would affect our ability to provide service for PG II. Mike went above and beyond expectations when he volunteered to send me a proof of the sign I would need, coordinate with a sign company that would be able to meet the short time frame for posting the sign, take us to the sign company in order to pick up the sign, mount the sing on the board and mount the board to the bus stop sign pole. He could have given me the dimensions, the name of the business and met my expectations, but he went way beyond them. His involvement in procurement of the sign insured that the route change could be communicated to the riders at PG II to prevent any additional hardship.”
Nominated by John Pigott, Transportation Services

David Alan Jackson, Boiler Room (Engineering & Facilities)
“Mr. Jackson is an exceptional worker who always goes the extra mile in fulfilling his job responsibilities. Recently Mr. Jackson was working on the boilers located at the Hollings Cancer Center Penthouse. His conscientious attention to his work resulted in his discovery of an error that had been done by a contractor. The contractor had mistakenly installed chemical injections at the wrong feed point for the boiler feed water. The misplacement of the chemical injection resulted in pitting on the tubes of the boilers. Luckily Mr. Jackson’s discovery occurred in a timely manner after the installation of this chemical injection which prevented additional, major malfunctions in the tubes. Due to Mr. Jackson’s identifying this mistake early, it resulted in saving work time lost due to an extended boiler shutdown to replace the tubes and saved MUSC approximately $140,000 in repairs to both boilers.”
Nominated by Thomas Fernandez, supervisor, Boiler Room

PEER Milestone Recipients
The PEER Postcard is an employee thank you card used to recognize fellow F&A coworkers observed practicing standards of behaviors consistent with MUSC Excellence in the areas of service, finance, people, quality, and growth.
 
PEER recipients for September are Ethel Campbell, from left, Kevin Drayton, Terry Harmon, Harriett Heyward and Carl Southard.

The following F&A staff members received PEER Milestone awards for September: Kevin Drayton, Engineering & Facilities; Terry Harmon, Student Accounting; Harriett Heyward, Engineering & Facilities; Delores Mitchell, Accounting Services; and Carl Southard, Purchasing Services.
 
The next Finance & Administration Employee Appreciation event will be held Nov. 18. All are welcome.
 
For information on the programs, contact Joyce Oltmann, RRC coordinator, oltmannj@musc.edu; Monique C. Robinson, PEER coordinator, robinsmo@musc.edu; Mellie Klinger, RRC chair, klingerm@musc.edu; and Anthony Dunbar, RRC co-chair, dunbara@musc.edu.

 

Friday, Oct. 30, 2009