Saturday we had a work Christmas party/reunion.
Apart from …..
- the hideous three hours of driving to and from the party in a blizzard (normally only a 25 minute drive),
and
-the lack of appetizers (I left them by the elevator in my condo parking lot),
and
-the AWOL dessert (co-worker assigned to bring dessert turned back after an hour cuz he was too pansy to drive two more hours in the snow),
….. it was a great party.
Getting together with these friends reminded me how lucky I’ve been to work with some truly exceptional people over the years. I could write numerous posts about how my life has been blessed by these folks and their wonderful spouses and children, and maybe I will sometime, but in case I don’t, here are two representative examples:
Co-worker 1 – who, while I was on a business trip took pictures of my entire office (overhead bins, file cabinets, boxes, desk, plants, darts, etc.) so he could move all my stuff into my new office for me – assembling everything just exactly as it was in the old office – thereby saving me hours and hours of hassle.
Co-worker 2 – who rented and watched a clip from Home For The Holidays over and over so he could make me an exact replica of the Aunt Gladdie Thanksgiving necklace I mentioned once that I wanted to wear to my family dinner. (btw- Aunt Gladdie is the “old maid” aunt who has started to lose her mind– sound like anyone?) I wore it again this year –
Yep, FRUIT LOOPS.Thanks, boys!! You have, indeed, made all the difference.
4 comments:
You should have stayed LONGER to avoid the terrible drive back!!! Loved having you out here - sorry the roads were so miserable. Did you get your cooler back before the cops got it?
In defense of the person responsible for the AWOL desserts, the snow was crazy and I was told to turn back. I was willing make the long and dangerous trip.
Sher - Thankfully, I made it there just before the bomb-sniffing dogs arrived on the scene.
Sepi - The point isn't really that I told you to turn back.
I once had this manager who would buy me anything I wanted--Kettle brand chips (salt, pepper, greasy fried crisp potato slices all combined to instantaneously exhault any person to the tropical paradises of heaven), Lion House Rolls (with the honeybutter that was much more money than the free bite size trials they piled into your bag), frozen yogurt, Batman pinatas, and chocolates from exotic places like New York. Man those were the days. Of course, I kind of deserved having such a good manager after surviving six months with a manager that wouldn't even read my emails. :)
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