We have a new employee on the Stefania Wine team. Our friend Jaye is going to be working with us through the shipping season and harvest. If she likes the work we’re hoping she will stay on and help out through next year as well. That’s a picture of her in the garage making boxes as part of the shipping process.
When we talked last year about expanding to a location in San Jose and opening a tasting toom we knew we wanted Jaye to run the tasting room operation. We still have that as part of our future plans, but it looks like it would be 2013 at the soonest. So in the mean time she’ll be working in the less glamourous garage and home office with us. That makes 5 employees on payroll. (I’m unpaid help)
That actually got me pretty mad as I though about it. I came up with a simple formula:
Solyndra + $575,000,000 in your tax money = ZERO JOBS
Stefania Wine + $0 in tax money = FIVE JOBS
Forward this to your congress critter 🙂 Anyway I’m not supposed to rant too much. We’re really excited to have Jaye helping out. She’ll learn a little winemaking this weekend and join Millie, Jerry, Stef, Ron, and I at the winery Monday for her first harvest day.