The saga continues ...
Scribing at 2:36 a.m. on 2004-12-14
Yeah.
So .. apparently this past Saturday was the Snake Pit's annual Christmas Partayyyy. It was, once again, held in the break room; but for a change not while everyone was still working, only about half the staff.
Believe it or not, we did not attend. I know you find this shocking, but you know .. I just .. couldn't. I experienced enough of their heathen misbehaved chillun running around screaming at the top of their lungs at the last Christmas Partayyyy we went to, probably to last me the rest of my entire life. Chillun are one thing. Chillun running around screaming while their parents tune it out is another whole thing altogether.
Nuh. Nuh thank yew. But thanks fer the offer.
So I went in tonight (after finding out my car was frozen shut, and subsequently having the Diva come out and do mad percussion all over my car until we could pop the door open) and there were only two projects; which took me less time to do than it took me to get INTO my car to go there.
I saw my buddy VH walk outside to get something from his car, so I walked around front after I punched in to open the door for him so he wouldn't freeze to the sidewalk outside. On my way back in I noticed this gigantic poinsettia across from the front door, with little wrapped presenty-looking boxes under it. I asked VH what the hell those were, and he said 'Oh! Yours is probably under there, it's our Christmas presents.' Upon closer inspection we found boxes for some of the folks but (aw shucks darn) nothing for me. (snapping fingers). I was getting ready to be all impressed that they actually GAVE people something this year; until VH, who looked like he felt bad about telling me there was something for me there when there wasn't, turned and said 'Don't feel bad. You can have mine.' I laughed and said 'No, that's ok. Them actually giving something at Christmas is pretty unusual .. what was it?'
...... A bird feeder.
Apparently, management felt compelled to gift it's loyal employees (which would explain why I didn't get one) with .. um .. bird feeders. Alas for those poor Yoricks who live in apartments, but you know .. hey. It's something. He also told me along with the bird feeders, they made a contribution of some sort in each of the gifted employees name to some charity or other. So they can buy ya a bird feeder, and they can give someone ELSE money in your name, but you still ain't seeing no Christmas bonus, jackass. That's just the way it goes.
*snark*
I was really actually hoping maybe THIS year they would wise up and at least like, maybe a gift card or SOMETHING to help a little. Since we are SO broke it ain't even funny, and we are not doing the tree thing, or the gift thing, or the any thing since we can't afford to, it would have been nice, just this once, for them to pony up a little something so I could get my wife a present, yanno? Eh .. *shrug*
Assmonkey did OK my request for Christmas Eve off (I didn't think he would, since TT of course already asked for it off and got it) so at least if we can't give each other anything, we can BE together, instead of me having to hack my way into my car and spend Christmas Eve at the Snake Pit.
So it's all good, and there are no surprises from the Snake Pit. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
