17 things you didn't know about CNET

17 things you didn't know about CNET UK

There are many things you don't know about CNET, many of which should never be allowed to leave the walls of our office building. However, I thought it would be amusing for you, dear regulars to this here forum, to enjoy some lighter notes from the private world of CNET UK and its 200 employees.

Without further ago...

1: We once had a battle of the bands competition in our break area

2: Every Thursday we have several cakes, handled by CNET's Minister of Cake. Cake availability is announced in emails like the following:

3: All our meeting rooms are named after cities we have offices in

4: Our main pool table isn't free, but the proceeds pay for free fruit for the whole office once a week

5: We once had a quarterly party where we hired out a 30's style casino

6: Andrew likes to pretend he ran to the office from the Tube, by running from the lift to his desk, panting. To be fair, he's only done this once. But we don't like to let him forget it.

7: We have a room just for playing video games

8: An ex-employee once threw up on a wall in the office, and tried to pretend it was soup (he isn't an ex-employee because of that, FYI)

9: A promotional video for the US show The Big Bang Theory was shot in one of our video studios last year

10: We have a meeting room with nothing in it but bean bags

11: Rory once won a fridge at a promotional press event, and it arrived with vomit in it

12: When he joined CNET, Nate moved in with Ian, and now lives just up the road from Nick

13: Jason used to be the news editor for T3, Rory previously wrote for Personal Computer World magazine, and Nick used to write listings for the Radio Times ("it involved explaining what happened in episodes of Pingu" )

14: Both Rory and Nate have been guest hosts on CNET.com's Buzz Out Loud

15: One of our video producers spent several years filming in the porn industry before joining CNET

16: Rich's girlfriend writes for the tech blog Shiny Shiny

And finally...

17: Nate is one of the youngest people at CNET, Rupert is one of the oldest, Andrew is one of the most bearded, and Kate is one of the only girls ever to work on the CNET editorial team

Well, I didn't know those!
Sounds like a great place to work

In return, one thing about me that nobody who knows me knows about:

I worked for a day at Hull University as an admissions clerk during clearing period. Having such a laugh with colleagues, I had to stifle my laughs and answer a call. I was still laughing so much I couldn't quite pronounce "university" and came out with the following greeting:

"Hello, Hull lullaversity..."

I wanna work for CNET.

It's all those subliminal messages, eh?

I used to want to be a video games journalist, but AS-Level English smashed that ambition in to dust.

For some reason IGN stood-out as "one of those companies I want to work for" but recently they lost some credability with a review fail (Sound suffering from frame rate issues - lolwut?) - I don't think i'd want to anymore.

wow, especially cool about the Big Bang Theory (love that show).

18.) CNET UK fans are cooler than CNET US fans.

19.) UK's Forums are a lot easier to navigate than US's. The site as a whole looks better, too