InsureMe: Second-Best Small Business to Work for in America
Last month InsureMe earned a number two ranking in the list of the 50 Best Small & Medium-Sized Companies to Work for in America. The entire office was elated when the results were announced.
The list was announced on June 25th before an audience of more than 15,000 at the Society for Human Resource Management’s (SHRM) 59th Annual Conference & Exposition in Las Vegas.
The second place showing in Las Vegas followed another silver medal for InsureMe. In late 2006, the Denver Business Journal ranked InsureMe as the second-best place to work in the Denver area.
With back-to-back second-place finishes, InsureMe can certainly claim to be a great place to work. What we cannot claim, though, is to be the greatest place to work.
While we are overjoyed at our recent results, some of us (particularly those of us in the marketing department) have a small ache for what could've been. This copywriter longs for the press release headline that could've been--InsureMe Ranked Number One Top of the Heap Very Best Place to Work in the Entire Country.
Don't me wrong: we think a second place finish is quite achievement, particularly since it came after an 18th place finish the year before. But in the sports world, the second place finisher is often derided as the 'first loser.' In politics, the second place finisher goes home with nothing.
Today, the marketing team had a collective e-mail exchange in which we shared examples of notable second-place finishers. Here's the list we came up with:
Bobby Brady
Canada
Carl's Junior
Frasier
Gerald Ford
Half bathrooms [?]
Jan Ulrich (second to Lance in three Tours de France)
Linen & Things
Mario Lopez, aka AC Slater, won runner up in Dancing with the Stars
McMillan and Wife
Partridge Family (red-headed kid)
Popeye's Whimpey
Reebok
RoNoc products
Star Wars (in the 1977 Academy Awards)
The Boston Red Sox in 1946, 1967, 1975 and 1986
The Buffalo Bills ’91- ‘94
The Chicago Cubs (if you could call them runners up)
The Kansas City Chiefs (first to lose the Super Bowl)
The LA Times
T-Mobile
Wile E. Coyote
Any you'd like to add?
