Theatre-style popcorn keeps employees happy
Every Friday morning around 11 a.m., the smell of buttery popcorn fills the halls of the Pathway Home Office in Rexburg, Idaho. Soon, employees throughout the building are gathering in a small room on the second floor, following the delicious aroma.
Cindy Perdue, Pathway鈥檚 enrollment specialist, remembers how the 鈥淧opcorn Friday鈥� tradition began 鈥� bringing joy and fun to Pathway employees at the end of the work week.
鈥淪everal years ago there had been three or four instances of someone burning their popcorn in a microwave. The whole building smelled awful. And on one instance, fire alarms went off, and the whole Pathway office building had to be evacuated. J.D. Griffith, our managing director, felt that it was probably time to ban microwave popcorn, but he still wanted all of us to have a way to enjoy it! So, he decided to buy a popcorn machine and now every Friday is 鈥楶opcorn Friday.鈥欌��
It鈥檚 a tradition that has now endured for years.
Popcorn Fridays are a fun way for employees to interact with one another. Sometimes it鈥檚 nice to have an excuse to relax and chat in an easygoing environment.
Paityn Glass, a student employee in Pathway Support, said, 鈥淧athway is poppin鈥� on Fridays! The popcorn is great because we get hungry, and it鈥檚 a fun way to start off the weekend!鈥�
What fun traditions do you enjoy in your family or workplace?