Team Building and Togetherness Are Core Strategies for This Pumper

Many business owners talk about their employees being part of the family. But they might not go as far as Chris Lanoue, owner of ADC Septic in Blackstone, Massachusetts. When he and his two daughters, Ava, 16, and Tess, 13, went to Aruba in 2018 for a wedding, he invited his staff to come along — at his expense. Two of his six employees took him up on it — his foreman Jeff Holbrook and Holbrook’s son Jeffrey. “When we got off the plane, I handed them each an envelope with cash and said, ‘See you in a week,’”