Confidence and ambition often help us more than we think. They exist in each of us, we just have to want them and believe. Our colleagues have shown us that it is possible. Their desire to succeed can give us a lesson to move forward with strength and dedication to the work we do every day. Marius Răducu Pop: •• How long have you been working in Aramis Group? For 4 months. But I have worked here before. •• When? Two years ago – I worked for a year or so. •• What happened when you left? I went to Germany to work. •• And how long did you stay in Germany? 3 months. But I wanted to come back. •• In which department do you work now? Frame Assembly Department. •• What are the positive aspects that you find in our company? Salary… Work… •• What motivates you? Work, my job – to do my job. •• What extra effort did you put in to be one of the 3 people with top bonuses in June? It was a regular routine – I did my job. •• What are your expectations from the company for the future? Ha Ha – salary increase… I am happy here. •• What advice would you give a colleague to help them motivate themselves? Do their job, that's all they need. Finish their shift and that's it.

Confidence and ambition often help us more than we think. They exist in each of us, we just have to want them and believe. Our colleagues have shown us that it is possible. Their desire to succeed can give us a lesson to move forward with strength and dedication to the work we do every day. Vasile Georgel Hordău: •• How long have you been working at Aramis Group? For 9 years. •• In which department do you work? Textile Tailoring Department. •• What are the positive aspects that you find in our company? The benefits of work, working conditions, free transportation, the staff in general. •• What motivates you? I always come to work with the satisfaction of being able to do my job. •• What is the extra effort you made to be one of the 3 people with top bonuses in June? I just tried to do my job as well as possible.. and as quickly as possible. •• What are your expectations from the company for the future? I hope we will be successful and even more successful in the future – to have work, that's what it's all about after all. •• Why did you stay with the company for so many years? I consider my requirements to have been met: I achieved my goal, I did my job as well as possible and the reward for my work was visible. •• What advice would you give a colleague to help him motivate himself? To think about his purpose in life – whether it's worth fighting for or not.

•• What is your professional goal? Initially, I thought: I come, I get a job, I was also fresh out of school and trying to find my way in the workplace. Of course, like any young person, I wanted to move up. I ended up in the quality department and now I want to grow as much as possible within the department. •• What does it mean to you to work in our community, together with my colleagues in Aramis Group? I can honestly say that I got a great group. At first I also worked a little in production and then I went to the quality area. In both areas I met people who were more than okay. I was able to integrate easily, so I am also an open person. •• What are your expectations from your workplace, especially since you have already worked in several departments? I want to grow in my department, I like it here. But I think everyone would like more in terms of salary, that is, if I had a 'more motivating' salary I wouldn't say no - I wouldn't have any choice, right? But people, in general, have to want more from life. And then also from the workplace. •• What was the biggest challenge you overcame in the quality department? I don't know if it's known, but I'm a Romanian citizen of Roma ethnicity. When you start a new job you wonder if you'll be judged or not. But I think I imposed that on myself more. But I repeat, I had an open mind. •• What was the biggest achievement since you've been working in the CTC department? I don't know if there was one in particular or which was the biggest, but there are several. For example, now the new range is being made for spring mattresses / foam mattresses. I can say that I contributed – to checking mattresses, covers, springs, everything related to a mattress. •• How easy are quality standards to implement in Aramis Group? Relatively easy, I would say. We work with FSC certified suppliers, that means controlled wood – that’s an example. There are various norms that we implement and we are open – that is, I didn’t have problems with not being listened to or with barriers being put up.

Ciprian Podină: I came to Aramis in January ‘98. I lived close by, I was 18, so I had to get a job. There were about 15 people here then. At that time, people were much more sought after, people were not hired as easily, you would wait even a month until you got an answer. I was the happiest man when I got hired. It's the most beautiful memory. I stayed, I'm the kind of person who keeps working. I liked that the salary was a salary, it came on time, the money was good... it was as if even the people were different, more serious, it didn't happen to be absent from work, not to announce, not to keep working. When we went out during the break, we all went out, the team was united. Raluca Podină: My mother brought me to Aramis, also from the age of 18, in 2000. My mother was working here, at the assembly section, in the oldest section there was. Only 2-3 people remain from her time. There used to be many colleagues of the same age, we knew each other well, we celebrated our birthdays together, March 8th - Women’s Day, both after work and during the lunch break we were together. Ciprina Podină: I started in transport, but I liked to learn, to see many kinds of work, you don't know when you need it. I, then, went on to the polishing section, and kept working in the field for five years. There were different times, it was harder, I was outworn when I left the shift, I worked on full auto, until the moment when the shift ended. I then became a foreman, I worked in the sofa department, and then they put me in charge of the shift. I liked it, it's a job with many responsibilities, you have to take care of people, how you put them to work, what you give them to do etc. Here I grew up, here I became a responsible adult, here I learned to work with people. I wouldn't change my job, I could retire here. Raluca Podină: We even met at work, we were also colleagues in the department, I did retouching, he did polishing. We met, he returned from the army and we stayed together. Now we work in different shifts, we have two boys, aged 8 and 12, and we do our schedule after them. We got used to working in three shifts after all these years. Now they are older, it's easier. I worked mostly in the sofa department, from there I went twice on maternity leave, then I got to the foam department. I have been working here for seven years, and since the beginning of the year I have been doing technical quality control. Ciprian Podină: I have been shift leader for seven years, but I have never had problems with people. I like to talk openly with them, to get along, to let things happen, to reconcile them. If you tell him at first, "You're not allowed to do that, you're not allowed to do that", he won't work the same way for and with you. The most important thing for a colleague is to stick to the schedule and do his job. This is where we, the shift leaders, manage. You are industrious in vain, you do what I tell you, but you do not come to do the work. Only once I wanted to give up, some new people advanced, there were misunderstandings, but I solved them. It's a lot of stress with people, with production, it's getting harder and harder to find people and keep them. It's easy to tell a person to go home, but it doesn't work that way. As a shift leader, I get my hands dirty too, I help when needed. What's the deal with that, if you're a shift leader you just sit aside and walk around?