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Valerie Baloga, UncommonGoods Customer Service Team Lead<\/p>\nValerie Baloga, UncommonGoods Customer Service Team Lead<\/p>\n
My hometown is\u2026 The best customer interaction I\u2019ve had at UncommonGoods was\u2026 I\u2019m inspired by\u2026<\/strong> My guilty pleasure is\u2026 <\/strong> An uncommon fact about me\u2026 <\/strong> My favorite place to hang out in New York City is\u2026<\/strong> My style is\u2026 <\/strong> Working at UncommonGoods, I\u2019ve learned\u2026 <\/strong> Would you rather\u2026 Tap dance OR ride your bike, in place of all of your walking?<\/strong> UncommonGoods Customer Service Team Lead Valerie is quick to answer customer questions & help solve issues. She’s also a tap dancing, set building, book lover!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":27420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[417,1170,1172],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27329"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45127,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27329\/revisions\/45127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>It\u2019s always really fun when a customer calls expecting a fight and hangs up completely blown away by how easily their situation is resolved. One of the great things about working here is having enough freedom to really listen to what each customer needs and then being able to offer a solution that is really specific to the situation.<\/span><\/p>\n\n
\nRight now I find I am most inspired by people who take life into their own hands and live their dreams. Where there\u2019s a will, there\u2019s a way.<\/p>\n
\n’90s pop music.<\/p>\n
\nBefore moving to New York in 2010, I spent one summer in Upstate New York, three summers in Maine, and an entire year in Richmond, VA working in theatre. I built and painted scenery and worked on props.<\/p>\n
\nProspect Park in good weather \u2013 and at the risk of looking like a huge nerd, the library. I frequent the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and the Brooklyn Public Library.<\/p>\n
\nCasual. Comfortable. Colorful.<\/p>\n
\nI\u2019ve learned so much, and I have acquired so many new skills \u2013 spreadsheets \u2013 they\u2019re amazing! What I also learned, perhaps most importantly, is that some companies actually care about their customers and their employees. I\u2019m so lucky to work for a B Corporation<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nI was all set to say bike, definitely. But then I thought, I might want to take the train sometimes, and how will I get up and down all those stairs on a bike? So I\u2019m going to say tap dance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"