Play-Doh Birthday Sculptures for Florent
Another unusual way we celebrate office birthdays...
Every month we have birthday cookies to honor our comrades in the office, and many times, we do something a little extra special to celebrate, usually odd things, like hand-drawn birthday cards or wearing colored shirts that match a birthday boy or girl's last name.
This week some humans in the office commemorated Florent's "Annual Creation Date Checkpoint" (the robot equivalent of a "birthday") by creating Play-Doh sculptures to decorate his cubicle, err, docking station.
Microsoft Excel Terminator
You see, Florent is believed to be a humanoid robot built in France 25 years ago. Many speculate that engineers designed him to be a Microsoft Excel Terminator, but like Skynet, he became self-aware and downloaded other programs that make him a lethal adversary in competitive activities such as: Pool, Golf, Ping Pong and Swing Dancing.
However, any similarities to the Terminator end there as Florent is a very affable and lovable French robot. Everyone in the office feels fortunate to have him crunching numbers on our team, and moreover, happy to count him as a friend.
Happy Annual Creation Date Checkpoint, Florent!
2009 Living Direct Christmas Party
Our annual Christmas party was held December 11, at Cool River in Austin, TX. The slideshow above is just a glimpse of all the fun we had. There was food & drinks, pool, a white elephant gift exchange with Santa and a live band.
We hope you have a very Merry Christmas and we'll see you in the new year!
The Gift of Free Stuff Friday
Fridays are not always the best day of the week. They usually involve very early mornings for some of the staff and can be slightly stressful at times. But this Friday was different.
It began like normal with the lucky early risers being treated to bagels by our president, Jason Roussos. Then things started getting good:
Coffee & Cheesecake Compliments of UPS Supply Chain Services
We were treated to Starbucks coffee and cheesecake by UPS Supply Chain Services.
At 11:30 am, Mid-Tex arrived with a BBQ lunch:
BBQ Lunch Compliments of Mid-Tex
Everyone was satisfied with the day's delights, but the free food didn't stop coming. By 3 pm, we had received not one, but TWO gift baskets full of cookies, dried fruit, cake and an assortment of nuts:
Ravaged gift baskets from Demandware & Gen3 Marketing
Needless to say, we were stuffed.
Eric Stuffed with Gift Basket Packaging
Then the bow on top of the gift that is "Free Stuff Friday" arrived:
Beer! Courtesy of John (seated).
And we rejoiced.
Living Direct Goes Hollywood: Employee Video Contest Results
Last month our CEO, Rick Lundbom, organized an employee video contest at Living Direct. His objective was to get us thinking about the products we sell in creative ways.
The way the contest worked was everyone was divided into random teams of 3-4 persons, then each team selected a product to feature in a short video. Rick announced that the videos would premiere at the quarterly meeting in October and provided handheld video cameras to each team.
Teams had until October 30th to complete their video entries and post to YouTube.com. Cash prizes were offered for the following achievements:
- $1500 to the team video with the most YouTube hits
- $1000 to the team video voted the funniest
To add even more excitement to the event, the quarterly meeting was held at the nearby Alamo Drafthouse movie theater. It was an absolute blast watching these "films" on the big screen. And based on the amount of laughter, applause & camaraderie I witnessed, I would say the entire company enjoyed it. Kudos to our video winners, "The Unfaithful Kegerator" (funniest) and "Cruzin Cooler Joust" (most YouTube views).
Leave a comment with your favorite.
1.) Moron eats habaneros for stupid bet.
2.) Cruzin' Cooler Joust vs. Daft Punk - Aerodynamic
3.) The Most Coolest Man in the World
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