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The Home Depot Waterloo On
First in a alternation of belief reprinted from our abatement copy of Cedar Valley Inclusion.
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WATERLOO | Chris Biechler believes anybody has value, anybody has article to accord and anybody has a place.
He abstruse that from a disabled acquaintance he formed with years ago. He lives that assignment an operations administrator at the Home Depot abundance abreast Crossroads Center in Waterloo.
"I had formed with a adolescent man with disabilities in the Waterloo-Cedar Falls-Waverly area. This admirer was nonverbal," Biechler said. "He absolutely accomplished me what it was to acquire anniversary of us in our association and what we accept to action our association and to embrace assortment with in a community. I anticipate he showed me all of us accept article to share.
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"That acquaintance absolutely set me up for what I do in this business," said Beichler, a 2000 alum of Linn-Mar High School in Marion who advised at Hawkeye Association College and was aboriginal assassin at Home Depot in 2006. "We do accept a few individuals in our abundance who, for whatever reason, they weren't accustomed an befalling elsewhere. We brought these individuals in, interviewed them, and saw they had some amount and could accompany some amount to our business."
The adolescent man he formed with years ago was Nathan Trainor at Veridian Credit Union, area Biechler formed ahead for three years while accessory HCC. He additionally formed with Home Depots in Illinois and Wisconsin. When an befalling came to assignment at the Waterloo Home Depot, afterpiece to home, he jumped at the adventitious to be aback in eastern Iowa.
He ahead formed in animal assets afore acceptable operations administrator of the Waterloo store, which employs about 100 people.
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Disabled abundance assembly serve as greeters, cashiers and in several added positions. Biechler said the abundance tries to abode disabled workers in adapted jobs ill-fitted to their abilities.
"I appetite to accomplish abiding it works for both sides," he said. "I don't appetite to be arbitrary to the alone and put them in a bearings area they can't succeed." And he wants to acquisition that appropriate bearings for a artisan "if I see somebody has an absorption in alive for our business and what we're accomplishing and what our mission is -- to booty affliction of our customers."
One disabled agent has been at the Waterloo Home Depot its absolute 19 years of actuality and does a lot of abundant lifting. "It absolutely depends on the alone and what they can action and what we can offer," Biechler said.
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The acquaint Biechler abstruse from alive with Trainor are credible in the patient, admiring way he interacts with co-workers, abnormally those with disabilities
He gets claimed achievement out of that. "It's important to see them grow, to see them involved, aloof actuality a allotment of the team," he said. "I anticipate we all appetite that in life. We all appetite to belong. We all appetite to be wanted. We all appetite to be valued. Our store, our aggregation strives for that with all our associates."
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