Email exchange at work:
To: Dist. List
From: Dist. List Colleague
Subject: Holiday Decorations around the officeHave you guys noticed that a lot of the open space cubicles contain a heavy amount of holiday decoration this year?
I guess you could call me the grinch because I think too much decoration becomes tacky very fast and not festive or fun.
I stayed late one night recently and at around 7pm while walking from the men's bathroom to my office I passed a motion sensor snowman that noticed my presence and started to play a song, move its arms, and it started to talk. It scared the crap out of me as I thought I was alone. My late at work silence was suddenly broken by a snowman robot out to disturb my peace and solitude. Not festive or fun for me.
The company fire department guys seem to agree with me. Below is their article on how too much decoration can create a fire hazard because cotton balls (used to be fake snow) are very flammable. Decorations with lots of paper or lots of electrical connections also can increase the likelihood of a fire.
Did you notice that in front of
YFA's office is a whole cubicle wall done up entirely in wrapping paper with a bow?
What do you all think about the increase in decoration this year?
Good thing? Bad thing?
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My reply:I am sick of the neocons. I am sick of getting a partially meets expectations
To give blog readers a reference to what that meant by this. We recently had our yearly performance reviews....but of course I didn't get that low of a review, I got an exceeds expectations! Cream of the crop!). I am sick of working so hard! I am sick of being sick! But most of all I am sick of the religious zealots trying to impose their beliefs on me. If it was me putting up decorations HR would be all over me!!! Let's go around and take them all down!! And that snowman, I put a candle under him…he's long gone! I ruined a brand new pair of pants because of him!
Yep, the snowman got me too! Late at night, no one in the office and that darn thing starts to inflate and sing. *@#&. No I didn't ruin a pair of pants...but my Glock was staring him in the face. Yes a snowman got me to unholster!
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The follow up from the sender of the first email:I like how you tell it like it is
YFA.
No mixed messages. No spin.
More power to you.
You may be right too about what are proper and not proper decorations.
If we do winter decorations with gift wrapping paper, then can we do this again for Diwali?
Can we go crazy and decorate for Diwali? Or what about for Kwanzaa?
Or what about for Hannukah? Or Eid al Adha?
Who decides which decorations can go up and during which holidays? Does HR know?
Is it writing down in an HR policy anywhere which holidays we can decorate the hallways for?
I say allow office decorations for all of them or none of them.
- Colleague R
P.S. Down with snowmen that talk or move around and scare me.
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Got to give him props...this R is well cultured. He knew about Eid al Adha....but then again he tries to get off of work by claiming to be a diciple of every single religion.
