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Staff Dedicated To Excellence
A key to the Firelight Glass success story rests in the talents and
skills of every individual who works there. Jamie harkens back to his
days as a coach. (He recruited their first employees from his soccer
team! Even today he continues to coach world-class runners.) At
Firelight Glass, a team approach is encouraged—that’s simply how
decision making and problem solving get done. Workers are valued for
their input, and job satisfaction is high, along with a sense of
common pride.
Inside the Firelight Glass building, nestled on the eastern edge of
the San Francisco Bay, highly skilled “hotworkers” ply their craft
as they melt, shape and spin the finest glass tubing into diverse and
distinctive forms. With specially designed gas-oxygen burners, hand
tools, ovens, and adapted glassblowing lathes, they transform the
glass into works of seamless beauty.
Founder Karen Boss, having come a long way from the one-person
glassblowing company she started on a kitchen table, describes the
feeling that sometimes comes over her as she arrives at work. "I pull
up to the building and feel a heartbeat coming out of it. The energy
there! It may be your business up to a point, then you belong to it."
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