Ok so it was officially an “Intern Lunch,” and an intern lunch it was. At 29 I felt like I was a card-carrying member of the AARP. But it’s all good. The pizza was delicious…though I did hear my stomach growling at around 3pm and that’s when I realized I really didn’t eat much since I was so busy yapping.
Not sure exactly how many people there were, but there was hardly any room to walk through the crowd.
From my understanding the purpose of this Lunch2.0 was to attract new candidates to work for Meebo. I’ve made this point before, that Lunch2.0 makes a lot of sense as a recruiting event, and is definitely more cost-effective than setting up booths at a career fair.
Speaking of recruiting, I’m not sure if there were prior agreements to do this, but the swag being given away at the event were not Meebo’s. The plastic cups, stickers and condoms (YES. You read that right) were from Slide: “What’s in yours?” and the url: www.slide.com/student. They were on the same table where Meebo’s job listing flyers were. It doesn’t take much to see that Slide is also doing recruiting there. I sure hope that this was a planned thing. Because otherwise, I think it’s just tacky to solicit and outstage the host by bringing your own swag.
So yeah. I hope that was a planned thing.
And speaking of tacky…I was talking to Sam and Maia from Spock during the lunch about the trouble I had. As I was walking away I meant to tell Sam “it was nice meeting you, SAM,” but what came out of my mouth instead was “it was nice meeting you, SPAM.” Needless to say I am embarrassed over this. My apologies again to Sam. (I was talking to Sam from Spock about Spam…can you see how my tongue got confused?)
But overall, it was a great event. Much thanks again to Meebo for hosting.
