Celebration Day
Posted by Ian on 15th Jul 2007 at 7:52 pm
2007
15 Jul
OK, this should have been posted on Thursday, so I’m not really doing well at keeping up to date.
The company I work for has recently split from its larger conglomarate and on Wednesday morning was listed on the NYSE.
On Thursday, the company laid on a BBQ at lunchtime and then arranged an afternoon of team games with a pub game theme as part of the global celebrations. It was great fun, even if our team didn’t do particularly well. It’s not often you get paid to spend the afternoon playing.
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July 16th, 2007 at 6:12 am
I hope you’ve got stock options as part of your compensation and it really takes off.
July 17th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Ditto what JMB said.
It was the same day that I spent biting my nails about the fate of my poor laptop.
I’m glad you got to play on a work day
July 17th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
Hi jmb,
Sorry for the late response, my comments system notifications seem to go AWOL on occasions and I didn’t know you had commented until Vijay referenced it.
I do have stock options, but unfortunately they aren’t worth anything at the moment as the stock price went into freefall about 5 years ago. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4105628.stm
There have been many changes over the years since, with the latest being the separation of the Electronics and Healthcare businesses into independant companies. This is a new beginning with great prospects.
Regards,
Ian
July 17th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
Hi Vijay,
It did seem very strange playing games like darts and table football and skittles at work in the canteen.
I hope you still had some fingers left when you got your laptop back. I won’t tempt fate by making any comments about coffee and computers, as I’m sure it would only come back to haunt me.
Regards,
Ian
July 18th, 2007 at 12:39 am
Ah Tyco, all is explained. Well I hope everything goes well with this reorganization and that the big guys keep their hands out of the till this time.
regards
jmb
July 19th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
Yes, there have been a lot of changes. There is no chance of that now.
Regards,
Ian