P’unk Ave is a pretty unusual place to work.
From the fact that we have four showers in our studio, to the fancy door handles with locking mechanisms none of us can figure out, to a drum set and silk screen studio in the basement, well, it’s a little different from the average office.
But it’s also an awesome place to work, and what makes it so are the quirky traditions we’ve integrated into our work culture. They’re why our team continues to grow, and rarely shrinks. At P’unk we believe that we should be constantly curating the work environment we most want to be in every day. Ilyssa touched on that last week in her post about being a Khrony, Ben alluded to it in his post about our obsession with amazing coffee, and I focus on it daily in my role at P’unk Ave. While doing work that has a positive social impact and that allows for innovation in our day-to-day is one of the ways we keep our team strolling into the studio ready to go 5 mornings per week, I’ll let you in on a secret.
And that secret is that we LOVE hanging out at 1168 E. Passyunk. Here are a few reasons why.
Bacon: If there’s anything to motivate you to get your weekend-weary self to work on Monday morning, I’d put big money on bacon as the front runner. So every Monday morning, we kick off the week with a full team meeting, family style over breakfast. Over the course of the meeting, whispered bursts of “yo, lemme get a piece of that tasty bacon” and “can someone pass me the granola?” pepper invaluable conversations surrounding team updates on milestones and discussions of pipeline over the next few months. Whether we have yogurt and granola, scrambled eggs or quiche for breakfast on Monday, there is always bacon (and a variation for the vegetarians and vegans). We believe that it’s the key to the successful start of a work week. After all, isn’t there some saying about bacon stimulating the cerebral cortex?