I’m a Winner!
Life 11/13/2007 |My job handles product training through a training site called Cyberscholar, which offers prizes as one of the incentives for completing various training modules. I’ve been good-naturedly grousing (well, some days more good-naturedly than others) that while I’ve been doing Cyberscholar training for quite some time now, even going beyond what’s required to do training on other products (some of which we sell, some that we don’t), I’ve yet to win a prize. This was occasionally even more frustrating when I’d hear about other local employees who’d won prizes after doing just a small handful of modules, while I’d been plugging my way through for most of the two years I’ve been with the company.
However, my streak has ended! I’m now the proud amused owner of a Canon Rebel (“Official Camera of the NFL”) folding chair!
Of course, I shoot Nikon, not Canon, the only football I have any interest in is the kind that’s played with a round ball, and it’s not nearly as impressive as the 30D that another employee won, or the 58” HD LCD TV that another employee won…
…but I won! And hey, free chair, right? Always good to have in the trunk when Prairie and I take one of our little camping mini-breaks.
Plus, I can hope that this is the end of my unlucky streak, and there’ll be a high-end camera, TV, or other such goodie heading my way in no time! 
[See also: More camera ramblings | Lens Lust | Canon EOS Digital Rebel | Lens Lust followup | Nikon D80 Revealed ]
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November 13th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
A folding chair?? And other guys won those other prices?? I’d be breaking stuff in madness! haha! I wonder why they have such a wide range of prices and if it’s totally random the way prices get picked for the winners.
Anyway, you guys go on trips a lot, you’ll find it useful I guess.
November 14th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
That makes you officially the chair man!
Last summer, I was buying Diet Pepsi, found I’d won a sweepstakes I did not even know Pepsi was running, and I also have an NFL chair. The trick was, I had to pick a team, and I know nothing about football. However, as I looked at my choices, I saw one that says “Saints,” and felt that somewhat appropriate. You will see it when you are next here.
January 1st, 2008 at 3:43 pm
I too do alot of moduals with Cyberscholar, however I usually win at least something small every couple months. Unfortunatly I am still waiting for prizes from as far back as a year and two mos ago. Some prizes come right away but lately nothing has come.