There are not many things in life that are as skilled, sneaky and elusive as the proverbial Office Ninja. The traditional depiction of a ninja is a member of a class of 14th-century Japanese mercenaries who were highly trained in combat and hired for covert stealth operations.  Ashley Fulenwider (a.k.a. the Runde Office Ninja) may not be fully trained in mortal combat, but she embodies many ninja-like traits and executes each as a well honed art. Personally, I’ve never witnessed anyone enter and leave a room as quietly and overwhelmingly unnoticed as Ashley.  Recently, I was presented with the rare opportunity to capture the Runde Office Ninja while she was a bit off-guard and I conducted this brief interview. What do you do here at Runde’s? I take pictures of the used vehicles and I file ALL the papers (that’s a lot of papers) and answer the phones and direct all the calls to where they need to go AND I write checks for the finance staff [...]

This week we’ll wish a big Happy Birthday to one of Runde’s very own employees.  Ashley Fulenwider turn’s 20 in three days.  According to the Urban Dictionary an Office Ninja (n.) is 1. an officemate who is adept at certain skills such as spying around the office and gathering information, appearing and disappearing around cubicles. 2. a crafty co-worker who can be tasked to work around the system to accomplish a job. Ashley Fulenwider is known around these parts as “the Runde Chevrolet Office Ninja.” Her title began merely as a play on words pertaining to how quite and subtly she would enter and exit an occupied room, unnoticed by those in it. Example! Just the other day Ashley silently sat down in the chair next to me to start her workday.  About 20 minutes after her morning shift began I looked around the room and finally realized she was there so we started to chat for a bit. After chatting, [...]