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Speaker 1: Welcome to On the Job. This season, we're focusing on

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Speaker 1: how people and businesses are getting back to work. Let's

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Speaker 1: call it a great transformation, a change in the way

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Speaker 1: workers are thinking. Employers need people to work more than ever,

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Speaker 1: putting laborers in a sort of position of power. We'll

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Speaker 1: be hearing from people navigating this new normal for themselves

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Speaker 1: as they find their life's work. Today we talk to

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Speaker 1: someone who has never not been in a great transformation.

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Speaker 1: Marcelli Bellinger lives in Yonkers and is almost maniacally dedicated

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Speaker 1: to improving himself, which eventually landed him in a job

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Speaker 1: same thing. Okay, all right, thank you very much for

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Speaker 1: talking today. I appreciate it. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: for this episode. I had the pleasure of talking with

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Speaker 1: Marcelli Marcelli Bellinger. He was fifty seven when I interviewed

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Speaker 1: him back in March. My birthday comes next month on

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Speaker 1: April twenty third, which I would turn fifty eight. He's

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Speaker 1: a very sprite fifty eight, and he's a very busy guy.

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Speaker 1: Are you talking to me in the middle of a

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Speaker 1: workday right now? Yes? I am as a matter of fact,

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Speaker 1: yes I am. And Marcelli was born and raised in Yonkers,

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Speaker 1: where he works now as a Grayston Ranger, and his

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Speaker 1: job is to take out the trash to make sure

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Speaker 1: that Yonker's fays as clean as we need to make it,

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Speaker 1: no question about it. Okay, So the Grayston Rangers is

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Speaker 1: a really amazing transitional workforce program designed to keep Yonkers clean.

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Speaker 1: Grayston is actually a bakery founded in nineteen eighty two

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Speaker 1: with the goal of hiring anyone who wanted to work,

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Speaker 1: no background checks, no resumes, and in the two thousands

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Speaker 1: and make Yonkers a better place to live. My job

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Speaker 1: title is Rangers Development Program Manager. I've been a manager

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Speaker 1: right now for exactly four months, but prior to that,

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Speaker 1: I was an actual worker for eight years. As a manager,

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Speaker 1: Marcelli oversees the Rangers as they spread out through the city,

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Speaker 1: drive routes and clean up the streets. A lot of

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Speaker 1: through their mind is this is such an easy job.

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Speaker 1: But I'm here to tell everyone it is not an

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Speaker 1: easy job. I never assume trash collection was an easy job,

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Speaker 1: but the way that Marcelli describes it, his job is

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Speaker 1: being his board. You need to be strategic about your routes.

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Speaker 1: You need to have some serious hustle, and you're battling

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Speaker 1: the elements all the time. You have to be a

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Speaker 1: quick thinker. Every day is a different day. It's not

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Speaker 1: it's never the same routine. A big part of this

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Speaker 1: is that the Rangers, in their fluorescent vests, have become

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Speaker 1: spreading the ethos that Grayston and the Rangers are founded on,

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Speaker 1: and believe it or not, they start to catch on

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Speaker 1: in every part of their lives. So in addition to

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Speaker 1: So the Rangers is a place you go when you

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Speaker 1: we're going to assess that and we're going to try

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Speaker 1: out best to work a solution now for you. Marcelli

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Speaker 1: those inspirational office posters behind him. In the interview, I'm

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Speaker 1: feels like he's always been an inspirational poster in human form. Again.

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Speaker 1: He grew up in Yonkers. His parents were both really

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Speaker 1: Also in high school, he was a very serious athlete,

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Speaker 1: You know, you want to pick up that a little bit.

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Speaker 1: He got married, had two kids. In the early two thousands,

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Speaker 1: an unspeakably horrible moment, and Marcelly remembers how his new

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Speaker 1: and he said, Marcel listened. Go take care of your business.

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Speaker 1: He said, do what you have to do. Your job

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Speaker 1: is still here. Do not worry about your job. Don't

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Speaker 1: Before he even started, MARCELLI was being treated as more

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Speaker 1: to somebody, you always get one hundred percent back. And

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Speaker 1: from that day, that's what I planned to do. I said,

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Speaker 1: He worked there for a while, then he was a

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Speaker 1: He was telling me about to range a program and

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Speaker 1: I said, oh, you mean to a bakery and they're

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Speaker 1: like yeah, I said, yeah, I used to work there.

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Speaker 1: Of course, he did Marcelli went into Grayston to hear

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Speaker 1: see you. He said. It may seem like the lowliest

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Speaker 1: the break, Marcelli gets seen a strong work ethic, takes

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Speaker 1: Back to Marseli's story, he went into interview at Grayston

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Speaker 1: pretty surprised that Marcelli was still there. When he brought

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Speaker 1: What's your name, Marcelli Bellinger. He said, I'll be seeing

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Speaker 1: As he and his team go around, they talk to

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Speaker 1: So those are the things, like I said before, that

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Speaker 1: get involved with that community, those are the things that happen.

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Speaker 1: Those are the results that happen. Those are the things

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Speaker 1: has simply helped make Yonkers a better place to live

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Speaker 1: Can I can I help you with the picker? Cannot sun.

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Speaker 1: So it wasn't a thing that we were like, hey,

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Speaker 1: But why stay a course? Marcelli has transitioned so many

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Speaker 1: MARCELLI Lean in and keep transforming. It's literally all we

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Speaker 1: No punctuation. That's it for on the job. I'm ods gray.

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Speaker 1: To learn more about Grayston and the Rangers program, go

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Speaker 1: to Grayston dot org. Thank you for listening.