Here are some random tidbits. You’ll feel like you’re here with us!
- We used to eat at the local Phở place all the time, until someone noticed a big booger in the server’s nose. Now only half of us go—sometimes you gotta put up with the thorns if you want to enjoy the roses.
- At least one decision has been made by arm wrestle, but that was a long time ago.
- In summer, flip-flops are part of our dress code.
- Our marketing manager once challenged our product manager to a wrestling match – the winner got her project queued up first with the creative department.
- Sometimes a few of us go out and do handstands in the hallway.
- We doodle on the conference room windows. Maybe that’s why Doodle Buddy is so fun.
- At least two of us have been injured bouldering. One broken ankle (
3 screws) and one really bad sprain. - We are one gallbladder short. We won’t tell you who.
- We secretly take pictures of each other and PhotoChop them. Then we send them via Textfree. Nothing like getting an unexpected picture message of yourself charging a sumo wrestler during a meeting.
- We celebrate every employee’s birthday with a song and a cake. Sometimes the candles won’t blow out.
- The air conditioning ducts on our ceiling are painted periwinkle. That’s our official company color. RGB is 97, 100, 206, if you’re curious.
- There is a mannequin named Pingerman covered in Christmas lights by our front door. (Don’t ask, we don’t get it either.)
- All the artwork on our walls is by internationally recognized contemporary painter, Gregory Burns. Cool guy! Cool stuff and it’s all for sale.
- We play horrible pranks on each other – usually involving stealing each other’s favorite toys and hiding them. Our QA manager once had her Nabaztag kidnapped. A ransom note soon followed with the Nabaztag’s ear attached, listing demands for return. We finally found out who did it. That was classic!
- There’s a shock-toy in the office. The cleaning crew plays with it at night when they think no one is watching.
- We recycle batteries.
- We have toilet seats on our walls, with screenshots of competitor products under the seat. (Just kidding. But what a great idea…)
- Our company holiday parties are rife with inappropriate white elephant gifts.
- Test phones randomly ring in our office all the time. They have all sorts of weird ringtones because we never bothered to turn off the ringers or change the tones.
- We can go through a wholesale size bag of M&Ms in a day. We had to stop ordering them.
Go to blog home.
May 12, 2010 at 10:59 am
Awesome!
May 12, 2010 at 1:11 pm
Only 3 screws!! :p
May 12, 2010 at 1:43 pm
Oops! I’ll fix that 🙂
May 12, 2010 at 2:22 pm
You better, or I’ll PhotoChop you!!
May 12, 2010 at 7:51 pm
I bet I know who “lost” their gall bladder !
May 12, 2010 at 10:07 pm
We can’t confirm or deny 😉
June 6, 2010 at 5:48 am
Hey! Great on recycling batteries, but here’s a possible better idea. We went to all rechargeable batteries about 8 years ago, and have saved a few thousand dollars since. For AAs, we’ve had good results with either the 2650 mAh Duracell or 2600 mAh Tenergy (much less expensive) brands. Both are NiMH.
An aside: tried to pay $5.99 for the year of ad-free texting and got the following message: “This is not a Test User account. Please creat a new account in the Sandbox environment. [Environment: Sandbox]”
Any help appreciated.
March 26, 2011 at 12:19 am
I want to work with you guys.
July 20, 2011 at 3:05 pm
We are hiring!
http://www.pinger.com/content/company/jobs/
April 26, 2011 at 7:17 am
thats cool,how old do you have to be to work there…
July 20, 2011 at 3:06 pm
Old enough to legally work, mature enough to act like a grown-up, and silly enough to act like a kid. Our ages really span the gamut…
May 10, 2011 at 4:57 pm
a wats the pinger’s service number
July 20, 2011 at 3:07 pm
Jose,
We don’t have phone support, but our email support is nice and fast…
Submit a request at http://pinger.zendesk.com and we’ll get right on it!
Pinger
June 24, 2011 at 12:37 am
I want a job! 😀 how exciting!
July 20, 2011 at 3:06 pm
Kirra,
We are hiring!
http://www.pinger.com/content/company/jobs/
Pinger
August 5, 2011 at 12:41 pm
i love pinger text free i recomend 5 of my friends with ipods already. im only 13 but i want a job here
August 5, 2011 at 12:42 pm
can u give me a little job just email me i can do something. lol
August 13, 2011 at 2:34 pm
my other account wont let me sign in and text
August 16, 2011 at 12:58 pm
I really enjoyed reading this post. It sounds like working for Pinger would be a lot of fun.
August 25, 2011 at 12:44 pm
heyyy
September 2, 2011 at 8:12 am
now pinger not fully runing….. long got
September 2, 2011 at 8:16 am
what happened with pinger?
September 2, 2011 at 9:51 am
Have questions? Need help? Head to http://pinger.zendesk.com 🙂