The Annual ServInt Employee Picnic

We’re known as a bunch of hard-working folks who keep our customers online through thick and thin, 24/7/365. As an institution that’s true, but at the end of the day ServInt is comprised of individuals – each with our own goals and obligations, interests and challenges. Working hard can be stressful so it’s great that every year ServInt throws a big company picnic and gives (almost) all of us a chance to blow off steam!

Each year we gather up as many of ServInt’s employees and their families as we can and have a great day of fun and games here in Northern Virginia. This weekend we threw 2009′s picnic – by far the best one yet!

What’s so great is seeing the children running around having fun. When the company started 14 years ago there weren’t many children running around at events we threw. Nowadays it seems like the kids outnumber the employees!

One of the cool little games we had going on was something called a Pitchburst. The concept is the same as a ‘dunk tank’ but instead of wasting hundreds of gallons of water, you accomplish the same goal with a water balloon suspended over the head of the victim. It is just as much fun, but a whole lot better for the environment.

During the picnic, employees got to take turns soaking their managers. It was all for a good cause too – for every direct hit ServInt agreed to plant an extra 3 trees in ServInt’s reforestation project. I’m not even sure we’ve even managed to tally up just how many trees that will end up being… though I know it’ll be a lot. It’s been a couple of days now, and I feel like I’m still drying out!

-Christian

PS: The manager getting soaked in the attached picture is Curtis Berry, our Director of Information. The guy knows just about everything there is to know about management information systems… he knows database management better than anybody else I know… but none of that could spare him from the merciless attacks that came from his coworkers. He was not alone! ;)