Dear Friend:
There are 2.5 million elderly Americans who go to bed hungry each night. 1,003,253 puppies have fleas and transfer them to their owners while they are sleeping. There are an estimated 438,000 deaths caused by cigarette smoking each year. There are 32,974 homeless men and women who reside in NYC.
And most importantly Friend, there is one VideoHelper employee that is treated like crap – the “New Guy”.
Meet Kevin. Shy, confused, lonely. New.
Won’t you take but a moment to enter Kevin’s world? Can you do that, Friend?
He spends his mornings desperately trying to work his way into water cooler conversation with little to no success. He spends his coffee breaks making “Kevuccinos” for his jaded coworkers. He spends his lunch hours eating a still semi-frozen Hot Pocket and toiling away in the CD vault categorizing, alphabetizing, fantasizing. Fantasizing about the day that all his hours of hard work, depravation and isolation would pay off and he would be called to wax eloquently about the new ScoreHelper: Disc 05…
"Our newest release," he'd say with his innocent eyes wide and imploring, "features five new discrete scores," he says while his mind imagines countrysides filled with dancing unicorns. "Ranging from the comedy-friendly, Gershwin-meets-1950's-filmstrip-esque music of 'WELCOME TO METRO CITY,' to the dark, suspense/terror-driven eerieness of 'FORSAKEN ISLAND,' to the orchestral grandeur of the NFL-films-meets-The Lord of the Rings-esque epic film"THE BATTLE FOR AVALON,'" Kevin would herald while excitedly gasping for breath while trapped in the middle of a huge, poorly constructed run-on sentence. "To the intimate, Indie-film-friendly, minimalist Electronic/Acoustic setting of "AN ECLIPSE OF TRUST," all the way to the violent, bi-polar 'SICARIA -- DIARY OF A MAD HITWOMAN,' a South-American-tinged blend of sound design and music," he would triumphantly announce to his audience, satisfied in post-coital bliss.
But alas, this is not to be.
Friend, I hope you will consider our invitation to sponsor Kevin through "STOP" - VideoHelper’s “Support the Ostracized Program.” For just one phone call or email a week (nobodycaresaboutme@videohelper.com) with a word of encouragement, hope, and yes, if you see fit, praise, you can make a tremendous difference in the life of one VideoHelper employee.
I hope we can count on you, Friend, to reach out to Kevin because we cannot be trusted to STOP ourselves.
Sincerely,
The VideoHelper Elves
