SilcoTek wishes everyone a healthy and safe Christmas 2020.  Happy holidays to all!  The following excerpt from a recent Sales and Marketing meeting may or may not have happened.

Santa Strikes Back! The Revenge of the Elves

Notes from SilcoTek Sales and Marketing Team Meeting Zoom call.

Date: 12/8/2020

Time: 10:57AM

Discussion of new customer application: 

Clay:  And I have one more opportunity that you all may find interesting.  I had a curious contact through our new website chat feature.  The South American National Tooth Association is interested in having some long narrow pieces of metal coated with our new Notak coating.  "Runners" I think they called them.  They want to repel ice and water for a very short kind of takeoff area.  I had no idea dentistry had such needs!  

I had a follow-up call with the association and apparently they're a group of specialty dentists who every year about this time do specialty extractions through many many long tubes.  I don't know why they didn't just say they pull teeth but they went out of their way to call the tube some sort of chimney. 

To efficiently do the "extraction" the Tooth Association wants us to coat various components.  They want us to coat 4 pairs of long metal strips, they called them "runners" with Notak® to allow for a low friction water and ice repelling "takeoff".  They really used some odd language for dentists.  And they're also testing some sort of special jacket or suit that they want us to coat with Dursan® to minimize friction and improve lubricity when being pulled through that long tube I was talking about. 

If those prospects pan out, they're also talking about coating thousands of large metal disks.  They sent me a picture and yaknow, it really looked like one of those snow saucers I played with when I was a kid.  Right out of that Christmas Vacation movie!  What would a dental association want with snow saucers?

Jim:  Dude that's Santa scamming us again...

Clay: No way!  I talked directly with the team.  There was no HO, HO, HO from anyone!  Yes their voices sounded a little high pitched, but that could have been the cell reception!  They said there was real money in this project!  Every year!  Like clockwork!

Jim: Yeah, it's Santa's elves getting back at us for playing hardball during last year's pricing negotiations.  Man those guys can sure hold a grudge!

Clay:  I don't believe Santa's little helpers could stoop so low as to try and scam us by fronting a dental association.  I'll prove it to you.  Here.  I'll pull up their website and share my screen with the team.  

Jim:  OK Clay, see how there's snow falling on that giant tooth in the center of the screen?  Doesn't that seem a bit odd to you?  I mean what does snow have to do with teeth?  Notice anything else that seems "off"? 

Clay:  Well now that you mention it, those "little people" frolicking with reindeer around the tooth does seem a little odd.  But I'm telling you this is BIG BUSINESS!  

Jim: Clay you need to walk away from this one.  

Team: Nodding in agreement.

Jim: OK, I'll prove it to you, let's click on the "order now" button and see what happens.

Clay: We're on the sssssSantaZon website!

Jim: Yep, it's SantaZon, Santa's online ordering site.  He's covered the operation up with the tooth bit to throw off the kids, and us.  Apparently he only wants his elves and close associates placing orders.  He prefers the old snail mail for the kiddos.  That way he can run their names, profile, and handwriting analysis through his naughty or nice ScanOMatic algorithm.  I'm guessing for us they're trying to place an order to challenge our sales team pricing and get around intellectual property issues.

Clay: Ok but why don't we want to take the jobs?  Those snow saucers would be cool to ride!  

Nik: Because he pays with those stupid Santabucks.  

Ashley: They're worthless.  Yeah, sure we feel great when we touch them but in B2B it's all about profit, not how good you feel.

Clay: Well I'm taking the business!  I want to be on that nice list!  (Turning a little red) AND I WANT THAT SNOW SAUCER!

Jim: If you take this business you'll end up like Allie....  She's still on the roof spotting for Santa.  

Track Santa to see him deliver gifts around the world!

Clay: Well there is that.  But you know she is very happy up there.  For some reason she never gets cold, or hungry.  Strange...

Jim: You didn't notice the odd colorful outfit she's wearing?  I think she's become an honorary elf!

Clay:  Well that would explain the pointy shoes and bin of toys she's working on.

Ashley: Also Santa wants us to sign that crazy non-disclosure agreement and exclusivity agreement.  He's got all sorts of conditions like sending him letters every day and playing Christmas music on the PA system all year round.  He also wants us to set up an office in Hackensack, NJ.  His "North Pole". 

I sent the documents over to Geoff at our intellectual property team for review.  Why he thinks some other Santa will come along and ripoff his ideas is beyond me.  And Hackensack isn't that far from us.  He's taking Santa Kanban and just-in-time manufacturing to a new level.  Anyway, Geoff is avoiding a legal review of the document until after the New Year.  He said he doesn't want to jeopardize getting on the naughty list and not getting that Star Wars Yoda Lamp, or the Darth Vader beer stein he's been talking about.  

Clay: I see your point Ashley, but if I don't agree to the order he's going to pull the naughty card.  And you know what that means.

Ashley: Yep, you won't get the PJ Masks Owlette adult sized costume you've been talking about all year.  Why on Earth do you want that thing anyway?

Clay: Hey.  What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas!

The Elves Revenge

Well Clay took that order.  And now Santa, who had a few too many Starbucks Mocha Lattes over the past year, can be pulled from all those chimneys.  Thanks to Notak® on his sleigh runners, Dasher and his team can pull chubby Santa from the chimney.  And Santa's new Dursan® coated suit helps to reduce chimney-to-suit friction while the Notak coated sleigh runners help to repel the ice on all those roofs, making for a fast and easy getaway for the entire team! 

As for Clay, he got his PJ Masks outfit and promptly booked a trip to Vegas, with his snow saucer.

And that NDA and exclusivity agreement?  Well now you can hear Christmas bells in July at SilcoTek.  A little revenge is never a bad thing when it comes to keeping Santa happy.  After all we're all believers in Santa at heart. 

The SilcoTek Team wishes everyone a safe, happy, and healthy holiday season.  It's our wish to Santa that we're able to put this terrible pandemic behind us and to keep everyone healthy and happy in 2021.