Posts tagged competition
Happy Halloween
Oct 31st
As usual, whenever there is some kind of excuse for festivities, we’ve held some competitions here in the office with prizes up for grabs. This year we had a fancy dress competition and a “Pimp my Pumpkin” award, with the winners getting a fistful of vouchers.
Fortunately for our fancy dress entrants, Gerry, usually the scariest sight in the building, is on holiday at the moment, and with Paul Twite also disqualified for lack of originality after entering as Nosferatu for the 12th year running (although he denies wearing a costume), the field was wide open and the standard was high.
Our winner was – skeleton Michaela (does that make her Boney M?)
Runners up were the green witch Ellie
And Sammi the Vampette
For the pumpkins, the standard was again high, with entries by Chloe, Michaela and Jude’s “Rob Balls” pumpkin taking the honours (although the pumpkin version of Rob looks considerably prettier than his real-life counterpart). Well done everybody!
Now all that remains is for the staff to munch their way through the remaining 70 gallons of pumpkin soup, and for everyone to get home safely without encountering the one spectacle which strikes fear into the heart of every Flux employee – Jules Carter without her make-up on.
Flux boss takes on the phones……
Feb 27th
Did you call us for customer service on Monday? If you did, you may well have found yourself speaking to one of our General Managers – Paul – who gallantly manned the phones for a day!
As you may know from previous blog entries we try to make the job as much fun as possible and we have many competitions in our monthly newsletter to win tons of prizes. At Xmas, we ran a competition to ask all the staff what their ‘Xmas Wish’ was – and the best one would come true! Our lucky winner’s entry was;
‘My Xmas wish is to have Paul sit and do my job all day while I relax in a health spa’
And lo and behold, it came true! So off toddled Michelle to the Imagine Spa at Knights Hill (for all you Lynn folk) and Paul braced himself for a day taking calls.
9am Monday did not go smoothly with some I.T issues but he soon got into the swing and was well away by 10am – helped by his own personal supervisor of course! Paul managed the entire day and took an impressive 39 calls! And so far we’ve only found the one file that needed a spot of ‘fixing’. Watch this space……
As you can see below he was dressed to impress on the day. It should be pointed out that our staff do not read books through the course of the day – the now heavily pregnant Ellie in the background is actually on her lunch! Ellie needed a bit of R&R after having to sit next to the big boss man all day……..
I think perhaps I’ll give him a grade 3 at his pay review this year. Or perhaps I wont be here anymore, after being sacked for that comment………
Trinity Lane Insurance just can’t compete with Blue Movie Star
Feb 20th
No, it’s not Gerry’s usual reason for canceling an important underwriters’ meeting.
Trinity Lane, an underwriting company we deal with quite a lot, are, being stuffy insurance bigwigs, not exactly ‘down with the kids’, and don’t have a proper website yet, though I’m told they are getting one.
Unfortunately (and amusingly) if you do a web search for their name, the all-powerful Google brings back the Internet Movie Database profile of an.. ahem.. adult film star, who has appeared in such silver screen classics as “Love Thrust” and “Gushers 9″.
I managed to find a (clean) picture of the lady in question, who probably doesn’t realise she shares a name with an insurance company – and I have to say she’s not a patch on any of the Flux Babes. And because she doesn’t work here, she’s not eligible to become a Flux Babe, although she can, like you, vote for some Flux Babes here. And like you she could maybe even win a SatNav plus some VIP tickets to the Adrian Flux French Car Show, which might be some compensation for all those bizarre calls she’s probably getting about transferring no claims bonus.
