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July 26th, 2010 |
At the end of every work day Tugs, being the environmentalist that he is, carpools home with Paul. Sometimes Tugs will be busy working (aka sleeping) on something and loses track of time so Paul has to go looking for him. Last week Paul was ready to leave the studio for the day and had [...]
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Speaking of customer service…
If you missed our last e-blast scroll down a bit and check out the post titled, “Real Life Customer Service Tales”. Since we sent that out we have managed to train Tugs to be our new phone wizard. He’s been getting quite pooped. -Paul
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Tags: around the office, e-blasts, gci, paul
Memorial Day BBQ
The GCI team celebrated Memorial Day this year like many other Americans, with a good old-fashioned BBQ. The three-day weekend started out rainy & cold, having many of us believing our BBQ fun was going to be limited to indoors this year. But Monday afternoon the clouds parted and sunshine beamed down on us. The [...]
Seizing an opportunity and an engine.
A month or so ago, I got a call from a friend about driving in a car race called Goin’ for Broken. “WOW” I thought, “I’m in!”. Who doesn’t want the opportunity to drive a car as fast as you can and not worry about school zones, children playing, pedestrian or getting a ticket? Then [...]
Posted in Funny Stuff | Tags: Donnie
The Whiteboard
The GCI studio has a new low tech tool that sparks imagination and deep thought. This tool has been used for years by millions from classrooms to boardrooms. Did you guess a whiteboard? But the GCI whiteboard is not any ordinary whiteboard. Every day or so, interesting and thought-provoking questions appear on the board. When [...]
Posted in Funny Stuff | Tags: around the office
The Work of the Punisher
April Fool’s Day is a great day here at GCI. A great day for Paul and Jenny, who enjoy pulling a good prank on their fellow colleagues. We all had our morning filled with funky computer issues and unexplainable events. All but Jenny and Paul of course. That is until late in the afternoon, Donnie found himself with a [...]
Posted in Funny Stuff | Tags: around the office
Good Old Spice
In our weekly staff meetings we have an item on the agenda, “Show and Tell.” It’s our little trip back to elementary school, and an opportunity to talk about great things going on in the world of advertising, marketing, web development, and design. In the meeting today I brought up Old Spice “Manmercials.” I think [...]
Posted in Funny Stuff | Tags: advertising, Jenny, video, web
graizy talk
Often, here at the studio, interesting photos or recent news happenings are forwarded throughout the office, followed by scattered responses or comments. This particular day, the feedback was particularly amooosing and the steaks were high in what became a pun cowntdown… On Oct 7, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Paul Thomas wrote: Taken during a protest by dairy farmers of something [...]
Posted in Funny Stuff | Tags: around the office, copy writing, courtney, Donnie, Ed, paul
Don’t Wear White!
In spirit of our reminder to our e-blast subscribers not to wear white (since labor day has passed), I wanted to share some marketing faux pas, which I would say are far more embarrassing (and costly) than a white jacket! From Ahajokes.com, examples of translations in advertising gone awry: Coors put its slogan, “Turn it [...]
Posted in Funny Stuff, GWHIZ | Tags: education, Jenny, product development, web
crash, boom!
So there we were, minding our own business when a loud boom and honk was heard. Accidents in the intersection outside our building aren’t all that uncommon, but this one was something special. Thankfully no one was hurt, and we all learned a valuable lesson about gravity, friction, and the proper use of tie-downs. -Paul [...]
Posted in Funny Stuff | Tags: around the office, gci, paul, web