Tuesday, October 27, 2009 4:44 PM
christina
Swine Flu? HA! We've got bacon fever.
In April of this year, Steve, Elaine and myself found ourselves as the most senior management team members at Atalasoft. This was during AIIM, when our fearless leader Bill and a good chunk of our crew was working the show in Philadelphia.
The 3 of us sat around my desk and thought, "What is something FUN we can do for the handful of staff members in the office? Something that will make the rest of those guys, enjoying the night life in Philadelphia, CRINGE with JEALOUSY?"
Steve's answer to everything is "bacon." And in this case, he was 100% spot on.
We held a small breakfast consisting of specially ordered bacon, eggs and biscuits.
We determined, after careful consideration and tasty bacon consumption, that we would most definitely be repeating this event.
Well folks, the time quickly came around again. This time, it was during the Microsoft SharePoint conference. We made some improvements to the menu, such as adding more bacon, home fries, pastries, scones and home-made raspberry jam. Our guilt over omitting the hard workers at the show was quickly negated by the fact that they were in LAS VEGAS, and frankly, it's hard to feel bad for anyone in Vegas.
Bacon Day has become something of legend in our building. Behold, one of our neighbors:
Guess what? WE WERE NOT SORRY ABOUT THIS. Kindly, Jason understood.
We take this event quite seriously. Steve and I even had a debriefing, after which he drew up a document outlining ways to improve the next Bacon Day. On the list? Designate a clean-up crew, empty grease traps more frequently, etc. The document was posted on our internal SharePoint site for future reference.
Here's a picture of Kevin (Developer Support Engineer) and Steve working the griddles:
They almost look ethereal, no? Practically holy.
In between uncontrollable drooling as I waited for the bacon to be ready, I asked a couple of folks what their favorite part about Bacon Day is. Here's what they said:
That was Eric, our eager Marketing Specialist.
That was our extremely satisfied Sales Manager, Rick.
It's not just the bacon either-- Joann's home fries were epic. Lou had never tasted real jam until he tried Steve's home made raspberry spread. My scones were a hit. With a couple of griddles, 2 dozen eggs and 7 pounds of bacon, WE CREATED HISTORY.
And based on the wild success of this year's breakfast, I can guarantee that there won't be very many volunteers for AIIM 2010.
