Fun Work Week

We had a very busy week at Corizon! We were finally able to announce that we won the Arizona DOC contract...which has been pending for the past several weeks. The contract was awarded to a competitor last spring, they really messed it up, so it was cancelled and awarded to us! Even though it was difficult to go through last spring, it made this win EXTRA sweet!

  To share the excitement and success with everyone, we had a big ARIZONA celebration party at the corporate and operations (STL) offices. It was interesting, because we thought we would be able to announce the win on Wednesday, so we had secretly put up all the Arizona decorations and had food delivered, etc. We had "Arizona food" like chips & queso, guacamole, Chocco-Tacos, and beverages. Then for whatever reason, at the last minute we had to wait until Thursday, so we got to do it all over again! WHEW! Trying to keep things secret at the corporate office is quite challenging, let alone overnight! But it all turned out well...

 

For the first time EVER at our company, we served alcoholic beverages...the STL Operations office always serves alcohol,
and leaders finally agreed to serve them here, too. I hate that, because it sets a precedent and expectation for future
celebrations, but oh well! I'm not the one making those decisions! So we served Margaritas and Coronas to everyone and
put them on the road to drive home! A lawsuit waiting to happen...just sayin'.

 

Rich Hallworth, CEO, (right) and Jon Walker address the crowd. Jon is my boss. This shows them by the
poster Jennie made that shows the state of Arizona with a BLOCKOUT of our competitor,
Wexford Health, and a little hatchet, HA!

We put the celebration together: LtoR, Robby Saner, Jennie Latimer, Donna Steinkamp, Brenda Henderson and me.

Also happening that day was Dress Red for Heart Health Awareness Day (www.GoRedForWomen.org), so many people wore red and got to dress down for that.

'Dress Red' people in front of our Arizona mural!

The very next day was our annual CHILI BOWL -- in conjunction with Super Bowl weekend. People bring in chili for a tasting contest, win prizes. Also, we wear jerseys of our favorite football team, in the Superbowl or not. I was just fortunate Steve had a jersey from 20 years ago from Steve Young on the 49ers, and they are really in the Superbowl again this year! If people don't have jerseys, they dress in the colors of their team. So the 49ers opponent is the Baltimore Ravens, colors purple and black.



Holly Rawnsley, Jennie Latimer, George Parsons, Melanie Taylor, Briana Lutes, me, Janet Vogelaar, Doug Devlin.

As part of our SuperBowl celebration this year, departments were encouraged to fix tailgate food, and do some fun games from 11am-1pm. So in Marketing, we all brought in stuff to eat, and then we had NERF wars! We snuck up on people all over our floor and ambushed them, it was hilarious! (Thank heaven Steve had a cool, brand new battery-operated gun he had stashed away. So I had multi-round power shots!)

Jennie Latimer, Melanie Taylor, George Parsons and me. Notice we saved the Arizona poster and hung in Marketing!

Our CEO, Rich Hallworth even got into the NERF ACTION! It was hard to get a good shot with my camera when I was catching BULLETS!

Rich Hallworth, CEO.  By the way, he's awesome.

It was a fun week. We needed that.