Culture
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Culture
Heritage Werks employs some of the most interesting, creative, welcoming, passionate and curious people you’ll ever meet. Our environment supports and embraces a wonderful culture where many of our employees have developed lifelong friendships and work with their best friends.
our team’s Fun Facts
What’s the best and/or craziest thing you’ve ever won?
- Knighted by the Italian Government
- A Whopper-eating contest
- Three silver medals in the National Latin Exam
- Prom Queen
- Cutest Baby
What instruments do you play? What music do you like?
The Heritage Werks rock band would be well filled — guitar, bass, drums, and keyboards are all covered. Plus, banjo, ukulele, fiddle, flute, or accordion might make an appearance. We have karaoke stars who can rock everything from country to hip hop (and one of us can even sing “99 Luftballons” in German). We’d have ample air guitar support, as well. We can also appreciate the finer things — there’s a bona fide concert pianist among us.
Do you identify as a geek or a nerd?
- 24% nerd
- 18% geek
- 40% both
- 18% neither
What’s your favorite sports team?
We follow all the major pro leagues (MLB, MLS, NBA, NFL and NHL). We’re also big supporters of our alma maters, especially in basketball and football.
And we’re all fans of the Heritage Werks softball team — Get Werked!
What languages (other than English) do we know?
- Arabic
- French
- German
- Italian
- Latin (and Pig Latin)
- Spanish
(including one person who has learned and forgotten Spanish… twice) - And little bits of Japanese, Russian and Gaelic
Where did you go to school?
This is just a partial list of the wonderful schools that have made us who we are.
What books do we read again and again?
- Following the Equator by Mark Twain
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Shining by Stephen King
- The Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
What pets do we have?
We’re dog and cat lovers. Between us we have more than 20 dogs and 15 cats. We also keep fish, birds, and hamsters.
Some of our pets are named: Pico de Gato, Jellybean, Bruce Wayne, Hazel, Ladybug, Snickers, Loquita, Nugget, Alfred, Griffin, Lando, and two cats named Charlie.
What are our favorite categories in Trivial Pursuit?
- 18% History
- 7% Science & Nature
- 25% Entertainment
- 21% Arts & Literature
- 14% Sports & Leisure
- 14% Geography
Where do we volunteer? How do we like to give back?
- The National Italian American Foundation
- Big Brothers Big Sisters
- Boys and Girls Club
- AID Atlanta
- Habitat for Humanity
- Girl Scouts
- The Innocence Project
- American Cancer Society
- Misericordia
- The VFW
- Toys for Tots
- Lots of animal shelters
- Several churches
- A few public libraries and university archives
- And one of us writes a bi-weekly column about local history for a small-town newspaper
What unusual jobs have we had?
- Chocolate advisor at Lindt Chocolate
- Carriage driver in downtown Charleston, SC
- Park ranger in Boston, MA
- Psychic
- Piano accompanist for dance classes
- Switchboard operator
- Seasonal monument technician in Central Park
- ESPN camera assistant for NFL games
- Toys R Us worker during Cabbage Patch Kids craze in the 1980s
- Route clearance (patrolling to find and clear roadside bombs and IEDs)
- Designing and making jewelry
- Zookeeper
Where have we traveled?
- All six continents: North & South America, Europe, Asia, Africa & Australia
- All of North America and Western Europe
- Much of the Middle East, Central and South America
- Most of the Caribbean
- Countries in Asia and Africa, as well as Australia and Pacific Islands
- We’ve also seen lots of the sights of America including cities (Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Nashville, San Francisco, and New Orleans), wilderness (hiking in the Rockies and on Mt. Rainer) and great vacation getaways (Hawaii, Florida Keys, and Puerto Rico). We’ve even been to Disney.
