“I just think we’re better together,” said Carol Robertson, operations manager for Rainbow Federal in Carnation, Wash. She insisted that she and her coworkers approach the interview for this article in the same way that they have always conducted daily business — as a team.
Current Owner and President Dale Robertson got his start in roofing working for a company in the Seattle area, where he came in with no experience and within two years became a foreman. “I was self-taught, you might say,” he explained. “I just worked at each individual job until somebody didn’t show up to work, and they asked me if I could do it, and I said, ‘You betcha.’” He then moved on to another construction job, and after a year his boss offered him his equipment — which Dale used to start his own roofing business in 1975.