MARCH MADNESS IS HERE!

Bad Ass Memories

Factory Store Visual Presentation 2006-2010

Random Photo of the Day

Hope Rides Again Chalk Event

Fire Alarm @ Pete Sampras

Fire Alarm went off around noon today. As we were standing there waiting for the firemen to give us the "all clear" to re-enter the building - we were thinking that this was a sign to get out early for our "summer hours". That didn't happen for me I ended up staying til about 4p. I will take it - it is an hour early.

AIR ELEVATOR CONFERENCE AREA

With the growth of our area, desk space for people is scarce in our building. Many conference rooms are already housing as many as four people and their desks. Now the existing conference rooms are slowly being taken over - hence the newly created "Air Elevator Conference Area." It is a totally genius name for the area I think considering many of the campus conference rooms are named after shoes, for example Air Griffey Max.

I have already attended one meeting here and it is not too bad, although just below us is the entrance to the building and sounds and voices do tend to echo. As the rainy season comes to a close for us, this means one thing - more reasons to schedule outside meetings!

RESEALING WINDOWS

So the Pete Sampras Building is undergoing some repairs. They are resealing the windows from the outside. This week was our turn to bare the cold winds when they replaced the windows at the end of our aisle. Thank goodness I am on the inner portion of the cube layout or I would have froze...

SMC Binder Stuffing

Next week is our annual SMC (Store Manager's Conference). This is where we host all of our Factory Store Store Manager's for the week and present a ton of information, party and support our community by volunteering for the day at preset locations. It is a lot of fun, I get to see all of my friends from the Orlando area again, but it also is a lot of work.

On Thursday, after getting all of the finalized Holiday marketing info into our 60pg Holiday packet, I scrambled to find a printer to turn this around in less than 24 hours since our in-house copy center could not handle the job. Enter Mollet Printing. I called my contact explaining what we needed and they said, "no problem". They kicked ass in printing 170 sets, 60pgs per set and 3-hole punched within 24 hours.

After receiving our printed packets, next up was the fun part - stuffing them in to 170 binders for Monday's kick off. The above photos are the binders at our stuffing party late Friday afternoon.

Stay tuned this week for more posts on SMC activities - on Wednesday evening is our "Winter Formal", which should be a wild and fun evening...

Air Time With Charlie

Today Charlie Denson held his "Air Time With Charlie" radio show in front of the Pete Sampras Building during the lunchtime hour. There is an email that is sent out prior to the show asking for questions to Charlie - I had a reply email ready for my question but never did hit the SEND button.

Anyway, headed over across the way, got lunch and sat outside for a bit and listened to the show. It was cool, they touched on Nike Retail topics (Yay!) and the up n coming Hood To Coast Race. I was only able to stay for 20 minutes or so, but it was cool to see the President of the Brand in our area rather than on stage in a presentation.

Thanks Charlie!