At 4:30 everyone stopped working and headed into the conference room for the big YANKEE SWAP! Everyone brings a present, then everyone chooses numbers. The person with the lowest number gets to pick a present first! Then the person with the next lowest number goes. Each person after the first person can keep the gift they open, or they can trade gifts with another person. However, each gift can only be "stolen" twice - so the person that steals a gift a second time gets to safely keep it! It's quite the game of strategy!
At work on Friday, somebody got some sort of Thanksgiving "Smoked Meats" Basket sent to the office and ended up giving all the choice cuts (the smokiest meats?) to Mark and Brian. They were in the midst of growing mustaches for charity - and their mustaches made them look just like the kind of extra-manly men that enjoy wood-cured animal flesh!
...That's right! It's Meetup Alliance! Er, what's that? You've never heard of Meetup Alliance? Well, let me just link you on over to the site...er, wait a minute. I guess it doesn't exist anymore. Huh.
...to sit in on their monthly meeting where they invite a bunch of Meetup users to come in and talk about the site and what they like and dislike about it.
On Wednesday evening, I checked my email when I got home and was stoked to find I'd received a job offer from Meetup.com. I was getting really bored at Community Connect and I was really excited to move on and try something new.
