I noticed the latest Washington Mutual commercial today and thought about how they decimated North American Mortgage Company.
North American Mortgage rose up from IMCO Realty Services in 1988. It was the priemier company to work for in Santa Rosa and a beautiful corporate office was constructed on Airway Drive on the outer edge of Santa Rosa. It was a chameleaon in its day, a complex built to inspire the employees within.
Wright Construction still brags about the NAMCO building at http://www.wrightcontracting.com/imco.htm . It came complete with an atrium, a restaurant, a smoking room, gardens, and a mile long walking path. The idea was to create a place where people loved to work and they would work at 110 percent. This was long before the tech boom with their ping pong tables and pets, NAMCO had everyone beat back then.
They belived in employee training and education, and created a state of the art training center and educational benefit program. But the one thing they were famous for was the people they hired. Everyone who was anyone in banking wanted to be a NAMCO employee. It was like the Donald Trump show of mortgage banking.
Ok, I was going to tell a story here, but Sex and the City is on and its the one with the "Are all men freaks?" theme...ugh...dating after you've been with a Mr Big is hell.
And I have to watch this.
