All work makes for a dull property search engine...
Just because many of the Nestoria team would be happy to consider themselves a bit nerdy doesn't mean that we don't like fun. Which is why, every now and then we rise, en mass, from the basement where we work (which is actually very nice), and come out into the fresh air to work together in a slightly different way.
Last year, as a nod to the seriousness of the financial times, the team went native, or the British equivalent there of, and did some survival training. This year the challenge was a map based one. A sort of information scavenger hunt if you will. Which sounds a lot like the work some of us do on a day to day basis...
The hunting ground was the area around Clerkenwell, and the quarry was all sorts of random sights and the facts and figures that go with them – all hidden from us with cryptic clues, as well as being difficult to spot. Ed. noted on the UK blog that his team opted to magnanimously come last so that no one else would have to, which they're terming a 'morale-building last' – this is until he's satisfied with the findings of the recount. The team that I was involved in also didn't come first – despite several very competitive team members. This was because we're so brilliant that we skipped a large section of clues which we thought were red herrings and reached the finish line long before anyone else. Unfortunately this is apparently like correctly answering questions in a maths exam but failing to show any working...
So, like Ed. I also have to congratulate the team who did win. Congratulations.
After all the hunting it was nice to have a drink and a meal and then another drink etc. The 'hunt' gave us all a lot to talk about. It turns out that my team wasn't the only one with competitive team members, but with tasks like: 'photograph as many of your team in a phone box as you can', there wasn't space to do anything else but have some laughs.
Thanks to Nomsa, 'Voice of the German blog' for organising.
