Posted on 03/14/2002 5:07:26 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
1. My office was graciously invited to attend holiday festivities (decorated cubicle contest, guessing jar, brass quintet, yadda yadda yadda).... but it is being held at our sister office approx 50 miles away. My cube-mates and I are going to draw a picture of our decorated cubicle and enter their contest anyway. :P
2. Silly me, I signed up for a cookie exchange. Usually the way these work is you take home as many cookies as you bring. So, bake a dozen, take a dozen. If you want more, bake more. But the way this one is organized there's no flexibility- I'll be baking 6.5 dozen cookies...ACK!
Anybody want a cookie?
So, it was more of a game-show parting gift, than a Christmas present? lol
I can't remember any one thing, and maybe I shouldn't tell this story since it's about me and not where I worked...but hey, it's Christmas...
My last Christmas at the place where I worked in D.C. things were pretty crappy. They were most of the time, but that year was particularly bad for all of us.
I got to the restaurant early as I had made the plans for our Christmas dinner. I started with a double Jack and water. Then I had another...
By the end of the evening the PR director and I were going around to the tables and chugging the remains of the red wine bottles.
Mrs. Stormhands had to stop about every 300 yards on the drive home so I could puke. I've never done anything quite that stupid since...
Which is why I was intrigued with PJ's development of Boromir in the film- esp. in the extended edition. There was so much genuine affection for the hobbits that you began to believe his heart was softening, that he was growing as a person, moving towards wisdom and maturity, so much so that when he tries to take the ring and curses the hobbits at the end it is a heartbreaking betrayal. Was it the ring all along? A fantastically complex character.
As Denethor's favourite son, Boromir was perhaps the 'faithful jewel', while the less favoured Faramir was merely the 'sufficient jewel'.
....would that make them the "family jewels?"
*cringe*
When I worked for this storage place, my boss was the daughter of one of the owners (the niece of the other). She planned the party and decided to spend money on crap like caviar and pate (and various other inedibles). After all that, she obviously ran out of cash to rent a place, so we had our party at the sales office of one of the warehouse locations! LOL!!
At the party, she hounded everyone to eat the nasty vittles and berated anyone she saw was (in her opinion) "drinking too much". Everytime any employee (including myself) would try to sneak out for a quick cigarette (just to get out of the oppressive and not-so-merry atmosphere), she'd pop out of the doors within 2 minutes and shoo everyone back in.
The music was terrible. One CD of Christmas muzak and another kind of guitar thing that put everyone into a catatonic state. And if you dared get near the boom box - WATCH OUT! Instant chastizing from Queen Bee herself.
To make matters worse, in the interest of "cost reduction", no employee was allowed to bring a guest, not even your spouse!! And attendace was MANDATORY! How did they achieve the perfect attendance of the crap party you ask? They handed out Christmas bonus checks at the end of the party. Thus, if you didn't go, no bonus for you!!
Fortunately, I worked only there for a year (only one party to endure) and then was finally hired here, at my perfect job. No Christmas party to attend, mandatory or otherwise, and a nifty Christmas bonus equivalent to almost a whole extra paycheck!
I know I shouldn't laugh, but....BWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!
Isn't that terrible? How they can instill so much guilt over something so trivial. Like you absolutely MUST be there...for the sake of your career. It's hysterical how out of whack their priorities in life are.
ba-da-BING!
You'd think a twenty-something from the 80's generation would know how to party, but then you find that isn't the case with some people. Her problem was that she wanted to be first class on a third class budget.
IMHO, it would have been better to reserve a spot at the local Steak & Ale and use the extra money to let people bring a date.
Considering "they" are a group of women, it's not surprising at all. I'm a she, so I can say things like that.
notgonnasayit...notgonnasayit...
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