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NAEC & Me with guest: Donald Gelestino - President of NAEC NAEC and Me with Alesa McArthur
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NAEC & Me with guest: Donald Gelestino - President of NAEC
Good Morning! This is Alesa McArthur coming to you from Atlanta, Georgia. I'm really excited to have Donald Gelestino, the president of the National Association of Elevator Contractors which I'm the executive director on line with me today to talk about some things. Don is the president also at Champion Elevator in the city of New York right in Manhattan and it's had lots of interesting experience with Covid 19. So I'd really like to start out by having Don talk to us a little bit before he gets too much into detail about that some info about his company. Don talk to us. - Hey, good morning Alesa. It's like most people today I'm actually working from home. Taking advantage of a little bit of casual talk, time around the house. But also pounding the pavement. Most days we're in Manhattan walking through Times Square. Probably one of the only few people in the city and with the environment we're in it's definitely interesting. Champion elevator is a full-service elevator company. We have 156 employees and we're running full staff. We actually didn't let anyone go through these times where jobs are shut down we deployed those people onto maintenance jobs and you know even gave our customers a little extra special attention so while the elevators are running a little better because as everyone knows if you're stuck in an elevator, number one, that's uncomfortable. If you're stuck in an elevator with somebody and they sneeze that's a little uncomfortable. When you're stuck in someone with an elevator and they sneeze during Covid 19 the elevator man better get there fast. So that's been our our mantra, just keep all people around the jobs and working as safe as possible. Just like all of our competitors and our other elevator family around the world I mean that's what you have to do right now.
NAEC & Me with guest: Donald Gelestino - President of NAEC
Good Morning! This is Alesa McArthur coming to you from Atlanta, Georgia. I'm really excited to have Donald Gelestino, the president of the National Association of Elevator Contractors which I'm the executive director on line with me today to talk about some things. Don is the president also at Champion Elevator in the city of New York right in Manhattan and it's had lots of interesting experience with Covid 19. So I'd really like to start out by having Don talk to us a little bit before he gets too much into detail about that some info about his company. Don talk to us. - Hey, good morning Alesa. It's like most people today I'm actually working from home. Taking advantage of a little bit of casual talk, time around the house. But also pounding the pavement. Most days we're in Manhattan walking through Times Square. Probably one of the only few people in the city and with the environment we're in it's definitely interesting. Champion elevator is a full-service elevator company. We have 156 employees and we're running full staff. We actually didn't let anyone go through these times where jobs are shut down we deployed those people onto maintenance jobs and you know even gave our customers a little extra special attention so while the elevators are running a little better because as everyone knows if you're stuck in an elevator, number one, that's uncomfortable. If you're stuck in an elevator with somebody and they sneeze that's a little uncomfortable. When you're stuck in someone with an elevator and they sneeze during Covid 19 the elevator man better get there fast. So that's been our our mantra, just keep all people around the jobs and working as safe as possible. Just like all of our competitors and our other elevator family around the world I mean that's what you have to do right now.
11 min