Last Tuesday our team at Twitter (the EEASy team), was scheduled to go an offsite after weeks/weekends of working on launching EEASy. I'd say that, after the 7-night Alaska offsite that I helped organize earlier this year with the Data Products team, my bar has become super high. But, given that Dobromir was the one organizing it, I knew it was going to be good!
Dobromir kept the offsite specifics as a suprise. As noon it was time for us to head out of the office, and little did we know that we were on our way to the airport - the first time I ever go to the airport without know where I was flying - exciting!
At SFO with absolutely no idea where we're going. This is going to be fun! #twitter #offsite pic.twitter.com/ZcIjwbPP5z
— Islam El-Ashi (@ielashi) June 21, 2016
Dobromir organized a treasure hunt for us where he gave us clues on activities we had to do.
Off we go! #its_too_eeasy pic.twitter.com/ZCxjLpf1sI
— Team EEASy (@team_eeasy) June 21, 2016
I embarrassed myself to help gain some of these points, but I won't dig into that. Some of those moments are found here 🙂
Admittedly, I was very skeptical about our trip to Vegas. Before this offsite I had been to Vegas twice and I swore to not come back - it's a fake place with little substance and much trouble. That skepticism subconsciously carried over to the first couple of hours of our stay there. I didn't feel like it was right, and couldn't wait to be back. It took me some time to loosen up and to enjoy the company that I was very fortunate to have, and then the fun began!