Office Niceness

Just when I was hating on everything about the place I work, one of my coworkers left a $25 gift certificate to Barnes and Nobles on my chair to show his appreciation for my recent efforts on one of his projects.

Damn Xmas spirit is making it hard to be in a bad mood at work!

PC

I remember when my company gave me a $200 "bonus" for the long hours I put into a project last year. I was pretty psyched about it, until I started doing the math and realized that $200 for 120 hours of unpaid overtime = $1.67 per hour. Ouch.

But I don't want to crap on your parade. A gift of any sort is better than nothing!

yup,
just when I'm feeling uber bitchy and angry at the entire world for doing me wrong I get tons of stuff for my birthday and Christmas from my work. Apparently they like me more then I suspected.
Well who would have thunk it...

And to add to the holiday cheer, my secret santa bought me a book called:

1000 Places To See Before You Die

It's pretty cool and thoughtful.

PC

My boss completed his 27th year at the firm in July. The partnership had noted that he should've got a bonus of £1000 for '25 years service' - two years too late then. They then taxed the thou to about £630-ish which meant he got about £23 for every year served as bonus for his loyalty........ then we realised that the £1000 'gift' actually came out of our own departments budget (in essence, the department paid for it and not the partnership).

They do have nice ideas at my firm but have not a clue how to implement them.

On a different note, my boss and I (only two of us in the department) work for about a dozen different other departments within the firm. Gifts of hampers and wine, champagne generally fly around at this time of the year and we haven't seen any of that from anyone despite working ours arses off for these people. After feeling pretty much unappreciated, the junior on the other side of the desk in a totally unrelated part of the firm bought us a little chocolate orange each just to say thanks for helping her settle in

Have a good Christmas one and all

elvie

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Originally posted by PhotoChick:
And to add to the holiday cheer, my secret santa bought me a book called:
_1000 Places To See Before You Die_
It's pretty cool and thoughtful.
PC

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I have that book. Inherited it from a San Franciscan I worked with in Germany, who's last act was to be arrested naked for drug possession by hard-ass Bavarian polizei.

It's pretty cool and not what I was expecting, which was a gung-ho adventurer type list. It actually has some exclusive hotels and things I normally don't think of.

Also, in Oz its traditional to leave a 6-pack of beer out for the Garbage collectors on the last collection day before Christmas.

I know, everyone's being so nice it's hard to complain. My boss set me off with his credit card to buy my lunch yesterday. Which was great cause I'm out of groceries, so I pick up a few things I'm such a bad employee.

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It's pretty cool and not what I was expecting, which was a gung-ho adventurer type list. It actually has some exclusive hotels and things I normally don't think of.

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I've got the book too...and it makes me a little crazy. There's a TON of hotels in it, and they're mostly $400+ but then it doesn't some 'obvious' things...liek I think it doesn't have Muir Woods (tallest trees in the world)

What I want to know is...to check something off...do I just have to SEE the hotels, or do I have to stay in them?

My office is SUPER nice today. We have the next three days off for the Christmas holiday so the boss decided to take an extra day off - today. So I'm taking it easy - big time. I don't plan on doing any work for the rest of the afternoon. The boss did take us out for a really good, really expensive dinner a few weeks ago. Even though we don't get a "bonus", I thought that was a pretty nice gesture. And then all my office mates & I exchanged little gifts yesterday, like scratch-off lottery tickets and those dorky little quotes books you find in the Hallmark aisle at the drugstore. So the office isn't such a bad place today. But I'm still glad I have the next three days off

Bah Humbug.

The holiday sucks, so do desks riddled with computers. Your officemate, PC, either has stocks in the company you were given the certificate in, or he got a discount for spreading it to his "friends", or wants to sleep with you.

Haha, unmerry christmas to you all, and happy new year!

Wait, is there a dichotomy in what Tuna said? Un and non-Un?!? Refer back. I do wish you all the best, but hate christmas, for many reasons. I quite like new year, though.