For a while, it was looking like the weather would do us a favor… but it turns out the Polar Plunge this weekend will be living up to its name.

Don’t worry – it hasn’t dampened our enthusiasm (pun intended). In fact, a few of our number are excited that it’s gotten cold again.

We worry about them. If you’d like to see over 20 Socketeers in costume jumping into a freezing lake, or even better, if you’d like to support Special Olympics Missouri, come on out to the Polar Plunge this Saturday at 2 PM, at Stephens Lake.

We had no trouble convincing more than 20 of our coworkers to go jump in a lake.

Socket’s a proud sponsor of the Polar Plunge, an annual fundraising event for Special Olympics Missouri. Of course, it’s called Polar for a reason – we were afraid that it’d be hard to gather a team for the middle of February.

But Socketeers came through – with nearly a fifth of the company volunteering to dive in, our next challenge is to come to an agreement on a dress-up theme.

Naturally, we’re always happy to show off our Hosted PBX services. But popping open a few bottles of wine seems to get everyone else excited about Hosted PBX, too!

We were proud to host a ribbon cutting at our Jefferson City, MO office on January 24 to celebrate our recent launch of Hosted PBX services. Representatives with the Jefferson City Chamber of Commerce brought over a red ribbon and some gigantic scissors (because what ribbon cutting would be complete without them?).