Earlier this week I posted about a totalitarian culture. Now today I just caught up to a post from GL over at What Would Dad Say that provides a view of a completely different culture.
I’ve recently invested in and joined the board of a fast growing software company comprised of mainly geeks, but cool geeks. They work hard and they play even harder. I’ve seen many of them passed out from doing keg stands and beer drinking relay races (at company events) . The culture isn’t for everyone, but the really smart, hard working, competitive types (who can also drink a lot) who don’t like a lot of corporate bs seem to last and do well . People who don’t fit this profile tend to last 1.5 days or so.
Last week I called the CEO at 5:05 p.m. and got his assistant. She said Wayne is here right now but he is busy fixing the Kegerator (for those of you not familiar with this unique piece of office equipment, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kegerator). People pay for a glass or two or seven with “chits” they can earn based on performance. You can’t buy them with cash so it is a performance based drinking system. If you don’t work hard, you don’t get to play hard. For some reason, this animal house style approach makes sense to me and it works for them.
An animal house culture – that’s funny.