🥳 Type 1 fun
This person loves playing chess and tries to play 4-5 games online everyday.
Who is Adi (@adisikri) (ORR programs)?
This person was a competitive swimmer as a child, and every year they would do an open water swim in the San Francisco Bay.
Who is Rebecca (@rebeccaryle) (Risk Ops Tech)?
This person's name is a traditionally masculine name meaning "big and bold."
Who is Weiwei (@weis) (Business Process)?
This person was formally trained as an opera singer prior to working in tech.
Who is Zander (@zander) (ORR Programs)?
This person risked a hundred mile midnight drive in Iceland in the summer on the chance the Northern Lights would show--they did, and it was magical!
Who is Sachin (@saching) (ORR Programs)?
This person likes to explore deep cracks in the earth, often dangling by a rope many times during the journey.
Bonus question: what is this type of activity called?
Who is Julie (@juliej) (S&O)?
This person carried a tiny, ceramic turtle with them the entire year of kindergarten, even making their mom bring it to them the day they forgot it at home.
Who is Jennifer? (@jhinkie) (Business Process)
This person was named after their paternal grandfather, from whom they inherited a 1968 BMW R68 motorcycle.
Who is Kurt (@kurts) (S&O)?
This person's first job was at Bojangles ("It's Bo time!"), a US restaurant chain specializing in chicken, biscuits and fresh sweet tea.
Who is Christina (@cmgoodwin) (Business Process)?
This person has been on over 100 scuba dives.
Who is Monica (@moyarzun) (Risk Ops Tech)?
This person has a collection of coffee equipment and a brew bar display that's been featured in a blog of coffee bar set-up's!
Who is Jayesh (@jayesh) (ORR programs)?
This person's first concert was Earth, Wind, and Fire.
Who is Chris (@chrishogan) (S&O)?
This person's grandpa, their role model for life, gave them their name, which means "today." Their family name means "rain," a complement to their partner's name meaning "thunderbolt."
Who is Jin (@jin)?
This person deliberately changed the name plate of a co-worker whose name was constantly mispronounced by others in the work place.
Who is Caroline (@carolineharris)? (Business Process)
Who is Cristina? (@cm) (ORR Programs)
This person enjoys hiking and spending time with their kids outdoors.
Who is Deepty? (@deeptygulati) (ORR Programs)
This person started working their first job at the age of 15 in their grandfather's donut shop, which later transformed into a barbecue joint!
Who is Devin (@dnottingham) (Business Process)?
This person constantly bothered their mom to tell them the meaning behind their name only to have her respond: "it means being a good kid!"
Who is Sajin (@sajin) (ORR Programs)?
This person once used the word "decapitated" when they meant "deprecated" as in: "The process has been decapitated with the last action completed last week"
Bonus question: what is the term for this kind of word substitution?
Who is Jeff (@sugianto) (ORR Programs)?
This person participated in a Peking Express Asia hitch hiking trip with friends from the north of the country to an island in the south with some special luggage: a live chicken!
Note: the chicken was well-cared for during the trip and very much alive at the end of it!
Who is Remi Kloos (@remikloos) (Business Process)?
This person is a van life enthusiast, having built one during the Covid pandemic, and generally loves to get outdoors!
Who is Marta (@mmarino) (Business Process)?
This person spent a summer in high school studying music in Italy, Germany, and Hungary, performing some of Mozart's original pieces in the same cathedrals they were originally performed in!
This person's middle name is a version of their grandmother's first name.
Who is Ailbhe (@ailbhe) (Risk Ops Tech)?
During a vendor onsite, a coworker this person was traveling with didn't realize the vendor site was across the street from the hotel where they were staying, and Uber-ed to work the first day.
Who is Andrew (@akaufman) (S&O)?
This person loves visiting Japan and has been there 10 times and counting!
Who is Robert (@robertyeh) (Risk Ops Tech)?