Best Mid-Atlantic Turnkey Site Development Company to Work For

Ronnie Rogers is retiring after working for Gaines and Company 43 years and 4 months. To stay at any job that long is an unusual feat, especially in today’s professional atmosphere, but even more unusual is that his brother, Lee Rogers, and their father, Buddy Rogers, also worked for this ENR highly rated mid-Atlantic site development company for a period spanning the 64 years since Gaines and Company first started.

So, why do employees stay with Gaines and Company long term? Simple. Employees respect their management and also know that management respects them. They go to work every day doing a job they believe in and want to be the best at. Simply put, Gaines and Company has the magic touch in cultivating employee happiness and self-worth.

“I always believed that if you’re going to do anything, you want to try to be as good as you can be,” Ronnie says during his video interview with Myrt Gaines, Vice President of Gaines and Company. “That was the way I was taught, I was taught by my dad, I was taught by the company, that’s just the way you do things,” he says.

This fundamental Gaines and Company ideology resonates with Ronnie as he recalls a difficult project he worked on. “I’ll never forget the job coming off of Route 2 that was 30-feet-deep,” he recaps. “Actually, I got into a little bit of trouble there,” Ronnie remembers. Myrt Gaines and the developer worked together with Ronnie and between them came up with a solution to add a manhole, which everybody believed was the best alternative. “And that’s what made the job good,” says Ronnie, “the support you got, the clients these guys worked for, it’s phenomenal. We’ve said it, my brother said it when he retired, my father said it when he retired, this outfit’s the elite outfit,” he says. “It’s not just because I work for them, it’s because when you have people that work 40 years, 50 years, you just don’t have that in a lot of places,” he says. “You definitely have it here – there’s no doubt about that.”

The secret ingredient that makes Gaines and Company an employee favorite is no secret. “Long-term employees are invaluable to our company,” says Vice President, David Gaines. “Just as importantly, our priority is to always take care of our employees,” he adds.

Even as Ronnie is retiring, Gaines and Company continues to retain long-term, loyal employees. Excavator operator Aubrey Wagner has been with them since 1993. “There’s no other company better,” he says. “I live in Pennsylvania, I’ve worked for companies in Pennsylvania, and I came out of the union to go to work here,” he says in an online video. “This is about the best company around to work with.”

To see more of Ronnie Rogers retirement remembrances, watch his parting interview with Gaines and Company Vice President, Myrt Gaines.