We had a morale event on Thursday. Just our floor from the at Micorosft got to go. Morale events are usually planned by the group admin of our floor. We went to to Jillians, a sports bar. It’s basically a event to boost the morale of the employees. It was rather fun. It was basically a day of practically no work. I got in around 11am. I had a foosball ladder match appointment @ that time. After the match, I had to go immediately since the bus leaves @ 11:30. The drive was pretty quick. Wasn’t much traffic @ noonish between Redmond to Seattle.
At Jillians, there were pool tables, ping pong tables, arcade games, foosball, air hockey, darts and some other stuff. Each employee got 2 tickets. At first I thought these were raffle tickets, but they turned out to be drink tickets. Basically I could order any drink that I wanted from the bar. As Tekman puts it, it’s quite weird to be drinking @ 2pm in the afternoon. Haha. I played a pool game with Tekman and lost at the final 8 ball. We were about equally good, which doesn’t really say much for either of us. Then the interesting part came. We were bored after a bit and Jeromy brought his Kem Cards. So a group of use decided to play poker and the chips were sugar packets. Equal and Natural were $1 pieces while Sweet ‘n Low was $5 pieces. This was a friendly game, so no money was involved. It was hilarious how we were raising each other. “I’ll see your 4 Equals and raise you 2 Sweet ‘n Lows“. Small and big blind were $1 and $2 respectively.
Then the pool tournament started and the poker game had to be paused. The outcome of the pool tournament was interesting. We told them to LOSE so we could continue playing poker. Derek manage to play all the way to the final game and winning the tournament! My manager Anand made it to the final table too, but unfortunately lost to my office mate Derek.
For those that know me, I’m not a drinker and usually hate drinks. But I thought I might as well take advantage of the situation since it’s all paid by Microsoft and ordered a Piña Colada. Then people made fun of me for picking a weak drink which I don’t really mind. But for my 2nd drink I allowed Tekman to choose a sweet drink for me. He suggested I try a Whiskey Sour with Crown whiskey. That drink was actually pretty okay compared to the other drinks.
So the poker game continued. I was up initially with a lot of Sweet ‘n Low packets, but I kept losing and at the end I ended having to buy back in. I had a great time.
Tekman and them got really hammered with drinks followed by more drinks. A couple of them did the Irish Car Bomb and then there was a round of Yager Bombs. I didn’t participate, but you should’ve seen Tekman. Haha, he was quite a site on the bus. When we got back, no one really was in the mood to do work. I couldn’t really think straight either. We ended up playing drunken foosball with Jeromy. I wasn’t really drunk though so it was 2 vs 1.
Haha. Thursday was a blast!