I hereby decree

I am excited to say that soon I will be joining Team Widgetbox. Over the past year or so I have had the opportunity to work closely (well, as close as one can over the Internet) with a handful of people at Widgetbox and I can say that they are wonderful people to work with. They have always been on top of things and extremely helpful. I can only hope that when I join them that I will be able to offer the same type of top-notched service.

Obviously, I have experience with the Widgetbox team. That said, before I went to their office to interview for the position I made sure to do some extra research. In doing so I came across an older blog post on the Widgetbox blog entitled "The Values of Widgetbox." Having had the aforementioned opportunity to work with them, as well as the awesome opportunity to meet quite a few of the people there in person, I can say that, at least from my perspective, they live up to their values. Lets take a look at them, one by one:

Treat others as we want to be treated
Ah, the golden rule. In my dealing with team Widgetbox, they have always been respectful, on time, and very helpful. There have been times when I had questions that, in retrospect, I probably could have figured out myself with a little more attention to the provided documentation, but they were fast to respond and seemed happy to help.

Open up new opportunities and frontiers
When we started WidgetNest we had a handful of clients and some previous work, and so we set out to try and make some money making custom widgets. We did okay. We kept getting new clients and lots of projects, but it was starting to take its toll. We were working harder than we should have been for not very much income. After a few moths of this, we were contacted by Widgetbox to become a part of their developer program. We agreed to use them as our main channel of distribution (an easy choice, since we were already doing so) and they agreed to pass us clients from time to time at, what we couldn't believe at the time, a very favorable rate. That "partnership" showed us that maybe we should value what we were doing more than we had been previously. From that time forward we upped our standards and consequently got better clients, more money, and had more fun along the way. Who would have thought that custom widget making would become a legitimate business.

Help outsiders and underdogs win
This one is very related to the last. The fact that they were willing to hire some relatively unknown kid from out of state to be a member of their team (I'm talking about me here) is definitely a testament to this.

Succeed when our community succeeds
The people at Widgetbox take care of their community. From things as simple as commenting on widgets they like to things like developer "webinars," they take time to connect with their users.

Enable fun through discovery
When I was in town for the interview, afterward I had a short walk to my hotel, but I was so mentally distracted by the whole experience that I missed my turn and got lost. Do not worry, I just missed it by a couple blocks. Anyway, I got to discover more of the city and had fun along the way! Also, the fish and chips were awesome. - Okay, so this isn't as related to Widgetbox as the other examples have been, but I felt like I was repeating myself and besides, I have so much fun doing this stuff that I would enjoy it with or without Widgetbox. (Unless any of them are reading this, in which case I would have SO MUCH MORE FUN with Widgetbox.)

Awesome. I repeat: I am excited to join their team.