For those of you that know me well, know that I’m a die-hard BYU fan. It would be a very rare occasion for our family to miss a BYU football game. You should also know that the BYU/Utah rivalry is one of the most heated rivalries in the country and dominates almost every conversation in the state of Utah no matter where the setting (work, school, church, etc.).
So this year, I decided to start the fun on Monday morning by bringing BYU football sugar cookies for everyone in the office. Afterward, I sent out an email to the entire company announcing that it was “BYU week.” Here are a few things that followed:
- On Tuesday, our admin brought in UofU cookies and gave them to all of the employees
- Our CTO, Trent Miskin, played a nice joke and replaced our company logo (on our website) with the BYU logo. The funny thing is that only those within our office network could see the logo. Most people didn’t know this and were shocked that we would change our FundingUniverse logo with the BYU logo for ALL to see!
- Then, the other developers swapped the BYU logo with the UofU logo AND made it so everyone’s computer background was changed to a UofU picture.
- Finally, on Wednesday afternoon (the day before Thanksgiving), my admin planned a fake meeting for me out of the office so that Alex (my partner) and the rest of the FundingUniverse team could do this:
Believe me… I was shocked! I couldn’t believe that they painted my office! That being said, I seriously thought it was hilarious and wasn’t upset for a second. Since then, everyone was asking how I would get him back. I had quite a few ideas on what to do, but I figured that the scoreboard was good enough. Since BYU won 26-23, here was my response:
At the end of the week, it was just all good and fun and I can’t wait until next year. All I know is that between now and then… BYU has all the bragging rights! GO COUGARS!
(Don’t you think Alex looks great in that BYU shirt?!!)
