I wanted to share a funny story with you.
This week our CEO John Pattullo of CEVA Logistics is taking a small US tour from our global office in The Netherlands. Upon going to our Austin station for a facility tour, we got wind that the puny minded disciples of t.u. were going to present him with a dreaded tsips gift. Of course we could not be out done so we decided to infiltrate and swap out the puny attempt at t.u. sentiment with AGGIE GEAR. We started this plan Friday and it happened yesterday just to show the time in which we quickly networked and responded. Read the story below when you have time. Share with other Aggies.
Glen Harris
CEVA Logistics
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From: Ward, Steve
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 3:04 PM
To: Harris, Glen
Cc: Dill, Peter; Ferrata, Paul; Gorham, Laura; Harrison, Stacey; Hayes, Jerad; Kim, Arnold; Lasnau, Chad; Lockwood, Lindsay; Robinson, Steven; Easton, George; Ferrata, Paul; Olbrych, Dale; Landini, Dominic; Lierman, Fabrian
Subject: RE: need large reference for this bid. can you help
In true Paul Bunyan fashion, I will relate the story to all who hale from Aggie land.
In the gloomy days of the past 2 years in tea sipper world, there has been much gnashing of teeth and whining over the Awesome Aggies glory on the grid iron.
Knowing these simple pagans would attempt to offer up a symbol of their small college in hopes it would gain them favor with the great John Pattullo, a small band of true blood Aggies began to map out a plan.
The first and admitted leader of this small brave ragtag band was Lindsey “The Viper” Lockwood. Upon hearing of the pagans weak minded offering, she immediately pulled together her tight knit band of fellow Aggie co-workers with included Glen “Ice Man” Harris and Jerad “ Hey Man” Hayes and challenged all who new of this puke orange offering to become step up in as true members of the 12th man and spoil the tu plot.
Having located Fabrian “The Mole” Lierman inside the tu camp, turtle doves (I think) were sent with coded messages to enlist her to uncover the specifics of the tu plan to offer the ugly shirt to our fearless leader. Once she had taken pictures of the somewhat classified documents she reported by to Steve “Cool Hand” Ward and Dale “Evil Eye” Olbrych (Dale has three daughters so I am sure he has given the evil eye to at least one young man who has crossed the threshold into his home in an attempt to date one of these beauties) and the plan to replace the offending garment was finalized. Paul “Boom Boom” Ferrata purchased the New and Glorious Maroon shirt that would be, thru very precise timing, placed atop the offending garment to insure it would be pulled from the packaging in front of a very shocked group of sippers.
Evil Eye transported the replacement shirt from the staging area located inside the Dell SLC thru the ever treacherous Austin underground and was able to slip the garment into the AUS station without detection. The hand off to Fabrian went as smooth as sip of cold beer on a hot day.
As the moment of presentation arrived, one of the sippers handed the bag containing the putrid offering to the Awesome Mr. John Pattullo. At this point Mr. Pattullo pulled out the tissue paper and reached into the bag to “ show us the gift” cheers from the predominately tu crowd.
At this point words escape me on how to describe the looks on those poor simpletons faces as the majestic Aggie Shirt was pulled out and unfurled facing the crowd with the ATM at the forefront.
There was a collective intake of breath, some went weak in the legs, others turned beet red and some (really most) of their mouths fell open.
Some managed to verbalize a “What tha” or “How did” before their brains could catch up with what had just happened.
Video tape has been reviewed and intense investigation has been launched (keep in mind these are tu fans, so I am not sure how intense) to find out how their adobe hut could have been breached and such a heinous plan executed right in their own back yard.
All who read this will envy myself and Mr. Olbrych, for we have witnessed an event that most can only dream of.
Steve Ward
Logistics Director
CEVA Logistics
This week our CEO John Pattullo of CEVA Logistics is taking a small US tour from our global office in The Netherlands. Upon going to our Austin station for a facility tour, we got wind that the puny minded disciples of t.u. were going to present him with a dreaded tsips gift. Of course we could not be out done so we decided to infiltrate and swap out the puny attempt at t.u. sentiment with AGGIE GEAR. We started this plan Friday and it happened yesterday just to show the time in which we quickly networked and responded. Read the story below when you have time. Share with other Aggies.
Glen Harris
CEVA Logistics
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From: Ward, Steve
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 3:04 PM
To: Harris, Glen
Cc: Dill, Peter; Ferrata, Paul; Gorham, Laura; Harrison, Stacey; Hayes, Jerad; Kim, Arnold; Lasnau, Chad; Lockwood, Lindsay; Robinson, Steven; Easton, George; Ferrata, Paul; Olbrych, Dale; Landini, Dominic; Lierman, Fabrian
Subject: RE: need large reference for this bid. can you help
In true Paul Bunyan fashion, I will relate the story to all who hale from Aggie land.
In the gloomy days of the past 2 years in tea sipper world, there has been much gnashing of teeth and whining over the Awesome Aggies glory on the grid iron.
Knowing these simple pagans would attempt to offer up a symbol of their small college in hopes it would gain them favor with the great John Pattullo, a small band of true blood Aggies began to map out a plan.
The first and admitted leader of this small brave ragtag band was Lindsey “The Viper” Lockwood. Upon hearing of the pagans weak minded offering, she immediately pulled together her tight knit band of fellow Aggie co-workers with included Glen “Ice Man” Harris and Jerad “ Hey Man” Hayes and challenged all who new of this puke orange offering to become step up in as true members of the 12th man and spoil the tu plot.
Having located Fabrian “The Mole” Lierman inside the tu camp, turtle doves (I think) were sent with coded messages to enlist her to uncover the specifics of the tu plan to offer the ugly shirt to our fearless leader. Once she had taken pictures of the somewhat classified documents she reported by to Steve “Cool Hand” Ward and Dale “Evil Eye” Olbrych (Dale has three daughters so I am sure he has given the evil eye to at least one young man who has crossed the threshold into his home in an attempt to date one of these beauties) and the plan to replace the offending garment was finalized. Paul “Boom Boom” Ferrata purchased the New and Glorious Maroon shirt that would be, thru very precise timing, placed atop the offending garment to insure it would be pulled from the packaging in front of a very shocked group of sippers.
Evil Eye transported the replacement shirt from the staging area located inside the Dell SLC thru the ever treacherous Austin underground and was able to slip the garment into the AUS station without detection. The hand off to Fabrian went as smooth as sip of cold beer on a hot day.
As the moment of presentation arrived, one of the sippers handed the bag containing the putrid offering to the Awesome Mr. John Pattullo. At this point Mr. Pattullo pulled out the tissue paper and reached into the bag to “ show us the gift” cheers from the predominately tu crowd.
At this point words escape me on how to describe the looks on those poor simpletons faces as the majestic Aggie Shirt was pulled out and unfurled facing the crowd with the ATM at the forefront.
There was a collective intake of breath, some went weak in the legs, others turned beet red and some (really most) of their mouths fell open.
Some managed to verbalize a “What tha” or “How did” before their brains could catch up with what had just happened.
Video tape has been reviewed and intense investigation has been launched (keep in mind these are tu fans, so I am not sure how intense) to find out how their adobe hut could have been breached and such a heinous plan executed right in their own back yard.
All who read this will envy myself and Mr. Olbrych, for we have witnessed an event that most can only dream of.
Steve Ward
Logistics Director
CEVA Logistics