We travel a fair bit for our work and spend a lot of time with the clients—but we’re encouraged to work from our home office on Fridays. Today I’m writing about a fun Friday in the Manila office and the culture here.
Manila is a pretty amazing office—we’re definitely not London or Singapore office in size, but being small has its perks. Everyone knows everyone, and we laugh—a lot. Office events mean a lot of jokes, competition, karaoke, and food while we wait out Friday night traffic.
This particular in-office Friday event was dinner followed by a karaoke competition and a game of jeopardy. Our resident knowledge guy Justine created a game of jeopardy with the most interesting categories (Pop Culture, Vocabulary, Geography, among them) and split the office into three incredibly competitive teams who trash talked each other—all in good fun, of course.
The questions ranged from historic (“First country in the world to grant women the right to vote”) to fairly modern (“Who was the Philippine representative to Miss Universe 2012?”). I can still remember the Double Jeopardy question on which the results of the competition hung: "State the modern day country where the first man to orbit the earth came from." The answer: Kazakhstan. Who would have known? Martin, who was in my team, barely blinked as he cheerfully penned the answer—and we won easily.
I included a photo of the winning team—and cheers to the amazing organizers who made the effort to pull people in for food, fun and a spirit of family.
Anna