Barbara
Fleckles joined Abrahamse and Company in 1996, bringing with her strong math
abilities and much prior experience in building. She’s worked in the restaurant
business, but also has worked in construction since 1980. Working for a contractor
for seven years in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, Barbara has installed windows and
climbed roofs. “Even though I know construction,” she says, “I’m
still amazed that the supervisors and crew can take what I’ve done on
paper and go out and build a house or church.” Barbara loves the team
atmosphere at Abrahamse and Company. She enjoys the “dry-in” parties
after the roof is up (about halfway through a job), and later completion parties,
where the whole company is invited to see the work accomplished by a particular
crew. “The
management team is the same way,” she says. We support and rely on each
other a lot.” Right before joining the company, Barbara had spent four
years at the Charlottesville Housing Authority as Clerk of the Works for all
contracted construction.
It was there she saw—close up—the work of
Abrahamse and Company. They’d
won the bid on many projects for the Housing Authority and she observed how
they “bent over backwards to be thorough and honest.” Thinking it
would be a great company to work for, Barbara sent them her resume.
Everything she’d hoped for in working with Abrahamse and Company has come
true, “I work for a company with a lot of integrity. I love coming to
work. I love what I do, and I feel part of a team. We usually make decisions
as a team, and it’s a great team. There are so many good people here.”
Barbara is one of those good people, bringing loyalty and careful attention
to detail to her work.
While Barbara
attended the University of New Hampshire as a math and economics major
and lived in Vermont for many years, one of the great things about being
in Charlottesville, she says, in addition to working with Abrahamse
and Company, is the number of days she gets to play golf!
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