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The Pinkewich sessions

Posted by David Greiner on August 2, 2007 12:23 PM

As part of our mission to make working at Freshview as enjoyable as possible, we set aside the first Friday of each month for a bit of fun. This normally involves knocking off after lunch for a quick team meeting to review all the figures from last month (customers, sales, etc) and discuss where we're heading over the next month or two. Once that's out of the way, we normally get out of the office altogether.

In the past, this might be a pool comp down the pub, some ten pin bowling or maybe the latest movie that satisfies the nerd in us all (how cool was Transformers *cough*). This week we were lucky enough to have some sporting royalty pay us a visit. Yep, the most capped sportsman in Australian history dropped by to teach the Freshviewers some big lessons.

Who is this mysterious athelete you might ask? Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Paul Pinkewich...

I've harped on before about how much we love ping pong (err, table tennis, sorry Paul). Mr Pinkewich is table tennis royalty, so we decided to get him in for some private lessons for the team. What followed was a hilarious afternoon where we learnt how bad we are, and how good Paul is. They don't call him the master chopper for nothing! We've put up a few photos from the afternoon if you're interested in seeing us get a serious serving from one of the best. A big thanks to Lesley, the Freshview office manager for lining it all up.

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