Time flies! We can’t believe it has been a year since we said goodbye to our Malvern office and said HELLO to Morgantown! To celebrate this joyous occasion, we kicked off our annual team week for the first time at the Morgantown location. For this year’s festivities, we decided to bring back some employee favorites from Team Week’s past while, hopefully, instilling some new traditions here in Morgantown.
We know that our employees are some of the most talented people! So this year, we divided up our office into teams for the greatest competition ever – Nilfisk’s Got Talent. Teams were given a week to utilize the skills of their teammates and put together a 5 minute act to be performed in front of the whole office! The winning team was chosen by our very own in-house judge, Paul Miller, Vice President and General Manager of Nilfisk-Advance America Inc. Employees not only showed off their Nilfisk and industrial vacuum knowledge but broke out in song and dance and cracked a good joke while doing so!
Other events included:
- Stocking Stuffers: Every morning, employees were surprised with a special treat left by the Nilfisk Santa!
- Santa’s Baby Picture Guessing Game: Curious as to what fellow comrades looked like during their diaper days – Morgantown employees were challenged to match their fellow team members with the correct baby photos.
- Chili Cook-Off: Our talented in-house cooks put their homemade chili on the table for the ultimate office taste test!
- Also, we couldn’t forget our annual employee holiday luncheon and white elephant gift exchange.
Some of our favorite moments from Team Week 2011:
The labeo coubie, known as the vacuum cleaner of the Nile, lifts its food by powerful suction from the river bed. The syndontis schall uses its barbels like an extending hose to suck up food from hard-to-reach surfaces. Protopterus aethiopicus, the Lungfish, breathes air to function properly, just like the vacuum cleaner. The coincidences are astonishing! Finally, the mormyrops deliciosus with its long snout and wide jaws resembling early Nilfisk vacuums, ultimately becomes the inspiration for the Nilfisk company symbol (depicted above).
