Episode 2: Giving Back To Those Who Served
The Bobby Bones Show
Premiere Networks
4.8 • 10.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
For the Calabrese family, based in Utica, New York, serving their community is a family tradition. In 2013, John Calabrese Sr. and his wife Lori embarked on a new career by opening up their own Express Employment Professionals franchise. Intrigued by the business, their son, John Jr., joined the cause and began doing the important work of matching candidates with companies and vice versa. Along the way, he noted that a lot of the area's unemployed were also veterans - many of them homeless and struggling. So he and his family launched the Veterans Supply Drive initiative, using two repurposed military vehicles to collect and distribute food and clothing, as well as monetary donations for like-minded charities. Thirty tons of donated food later, John Jr has received awards for his important and proactive work.
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| 0:00.0 | This is On The Job, a podcast about finding your life's worth. |
| 0:10.4 | On The Job is brought to you by Express Employment Professionals. |
| 0:13.9 | This season, we're bringing you stories of folks following their passion to carve their |
| 0:17.8 | own career path. |
| 0:19.8 | The year into COVID, the U.S. has witnessed the highest unemployment rate since the Great |
| 0:23.8 | Depression. |
| 0:24.8 | And now, in 2021, as society begins to return to a new normal, there are people who |
| 0:29.6 | are occupying what it is to help Americans get back on the job. |
| 0:33.5 | Today, we talk to one of Express Employment Professionals, very own, about his work, |
| 0:38.4 | how he got there, and in innovative ways, he's giving back to his community. |
| 0:44.3 | People are coming in here looking for work. |
| 0:47.1 | A lot of people take working for granted. |
| 0:50.3 | It's not guaranteed, especially in these times, it's not guaranteed. |
| 0:54.5 | In early April of 2021, I had the pleasure of talking with John. |
| 0:58.9 | John Calabries, I'm a staff consultant with Express Employment in Udica, New York, and |
| 1:04.4 | I'm 27 years old. |
| 1:06.4 | Full disclosure, he works with his dad, John Calabries Senior. |
| 1:10.0 | So this is John Calabries Jr. |
| 1:11.8 | Yeah, I'm Jr. too, which sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesn't, but don't tell him |
| 1:15.8 | that. |
| 1:18.0 | For those unfamiliar, Express Employment Professionals is a franchise, the staffing company. |
| 1:23.0 | The branch that John works at in Udica is a family business. |
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