This is my second-to-last day at NPD.
It's employee appreciation day, and everyone's headed over to Belmont Races where the company has rented out a floor overlooking the track. Room temperature pasta salad and watery beer abound. Contests will no doubt be held, with Olive Garden gift certificates and nail salon coupons flowing like water.
They had another one of these things during my first week at NPD. That one was a picnic - ham and mayo in the grass behind the parking lot with the sweet smell of the garbage dump wafting over from across the street. "Kokomo" was on auto-repeat, blasting out of tinny loudspeakers, and the master of ceremonies was a guy who looked like he'd been scraped off the cutting room floor of Office Space if you overlooked the poorly-fitting Hawaiian shirt.
Two things you should know:
1. NONE of the above is an exaggeration.
2. While I continue to find the whole thing creepy, I do understand that there is something nice about it. The Company is genuinely well-meaning. And in these times, that's hard to come by. "A" for Effort, I say. How many other companies score higher than a "D?"
It's employee appreciation day, and everyone's headed over to Belmont Races where the company has rented out a floor overlooking the track. Room temperature pasta salad and watery beer abound. Contests will no doubt be held, with Olive Garden gift certificates and nail salon coupons flowing like water.
They had another one of these things during my first week at NPD. That one was a picnic - ham and mayo in the grass behind the parking lot with the sweet smell of the garbage dump wafting over from across the street. "Kokomo" was on auto-repeat, blasting out of tinny loudspeakers, and the master of ceremonies was a guy who looked like he'd been scraped off the cutting room floor of Office Space if you overlooked the poorly-fitting Hawaiian shirt.
Two things you should know:
1. NONE of the above is an exaggeration.
2. While I continue to find the whole thing creepy, I do understand that there is something nice about it. The Company is genuinely well-meaning. And in these times, that's hard to come by. "A" for Effort, I say. How many other companies score higher than a "D?"
posted by isaacjosephson at 8:27 AM
2 Comments:
Well, Turner rents out Six Flags for its employees for one night every summer. They do other stuff, too. I can't complain. But you get Kokomo...
We have three events: a company-wide kickball game (with beer) in the early summer, a North Avenue Beach night where we rent out the top of that restaurant down there (Castaways) in the late summer, and a big holiday luncheon with plenty of booze and professional entertainment (of the magician, psychic, comedian variety). Our company is fun and tasteful.
Kokomo! Hee hee!
Andersen Consulting used to rent out Six Flags Great America for the day, and you could ride every ride with no lines. Not bad.
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