So on Tuesday of next week I'm gonna be a reindeer.




All next week is 'holiday fun week' at work and on Tuesday we are having a parade of 'floats'. The floats are made out of office chairs. We're allowed one 'rider' and one 'pusher' and we can't ruin the chair, but everything else is fair game. So my team is making a big cardboard sleigh trimmed with garland and glitter and working lights and we're gonna have a guy in a santa suit riding in the chair and I 'get' to be a reindeer pulling the whole thing. With antlers and a big red nose.


Do they make you do this crap at your workplace? I feel like an extra from The Office.

CarrieMpls said:

Where do you work Fisher-Price?

I'm "missing" all the office crap since today is my last day and I will be officeless until Jan 2nd... however, you'll make a great reindeer

LordEvil said:

no.

i got nothing!!!

LOL I'm known as the grinch at my office. I flipped out cause for 15 days straight they have been playing the same exact christmas cds (two of them) eight hours straight...So I said I was going to sue the US and take this to the supreme court and have them ban christmas. and I said my mission this month was to make jolly people cry. and this girl is always so got damn giddy and shes like...oh i love christmas...and immediately i mutter loud enough so she can hear..."I hate christmas I wish santa would crash into a tree and burst into flames with his got damn reindeers" .....I'm not really liked in my office. I love it tho.

DiminutiveRocker said:

thanks. I just have to wear brown. It was hilarious that we had an hour long meeting today to plan everything and when they got down the whole list of who was had to bring in this and that and who had paint and who could bring in battery operated lights and how they were gonna get together and paint it and who could make the bows and so on and the guy was all, 'Carrie, wait, I don't have you down for anything.' And I just looked at him and said, 'Well, I'm the reindeer. '

CarrieMpls said:

i'd sue for harrassment. even if that request isn't harrassment, i'd sure as hell harrass someone who showed up at work doing that. not sexually, but i'd throw a stapler at them. i'm sorry.

CarrieMpls said:

why do you have to pull santa. you're the girl..santa should be pulling you!

JasmineFire said:

Right - you should have insisted on playing Santa's.... mistress!

JasmineFire said:

I don't know, somehow it was decided that the redhead should be rudolph. It doesn't make any sense to me either. The rest of them are dressing up in target red and khaki and wearing elf hats and throwing out candy canes. I told them I don't own any khakis nor any red shirts and I'm not buying clothes just for some float thing at work, (Well don't you have a red christmas sweater? NO. I do not own any christmas sweaters! )

bucketofbouncyballs said:

you rock.

bucketofbouncyballs said:

CarrieMpls said:

@ christmas sweaters! what do they think you are? a middle school teacher?

you have my support Carrie.

around here we have themed catamaran trips where you have to dress up as something. i refuse to buy a costume just so that i can get on a boat so i always end up picking out my hair and creating an afro with the help of some hairspray and mousse. it's getting old, though.

can't people have fun without dressing up like idiots?

I went to human resoures at my job and complained that my religion wasn't being represented. They asked what could we do to fix the problem I said hang a Christmas tree upside down from the ceiling painted black and light a hooker on fire. I was asked see the company therapist for an evaluation

Spookymuffin said:

anyone seen that commercial where the guy goes nuts and uses the keyboard to beat the santa toy thing...that would be so me. Everyones desks are decorated with those fake ass green things except mine. I got this girl in trouble because she was spraying that lysol crap with pine tree scent and im like WTF!? A. IT SMELLS LIKE A TAXI CAB AND B. I THINK IM GETTING AN ALLERGIC REACTION!!! and she was like oh no you're not its to smell the christmas spirit...so I go to my boss and was like "WELL THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT IS SEEPING INTO MY SKIN AND I THINK ITS FORMING PUSS BALLS ON MY BACK...IM PROBABLY DYING AND I DONT KNOW IT...THIS IS UNCALLED FOR..." so she got in trouble and isn't allowed to spray that christmas spirit crap anywhere.

LordEvil said:

JasmineFire said:

We had to do a whole big presentation last year for some bigwigs and we themed our portion as if it were an academy awards show (we had a red carpet, our emcee wore a tux and everything) and we raided target's 'prop shop' and found dresses and scarves and jackets and whatnot that all had the target bullseyes all over that are used for the commercials and print ads and all of us wore them. That was actually fun. And that I can do.

But an office chair float and dressing up as a reindeer?

bucketofbouncyballs said:

X 1,000,000,000,000,000

you sound crazy.

but in the good way.

bucketofbouncyballs said:

!!

CarrieMpls said:

that actually does sound like fun.

but dressing up as a reindeer sucks. you should get a 50% raise for that.

JasmineFire said:

you have nooooo idea I wish I could record half the crap that those people make me say in that office. They just make me be so angry so mean. Then I LOL about it. Like the time this guy asked me "Hey are you doing anything? Are you busy?"...mind you I had a stack of files papers all over the place and two calls on hold...and I slowly turned in my wheely chair...looked at him and muttered calmly...no, I am not busy...for the past...(looked at my watch) five hours I have been playing with myself and seeking internal pleasure for I have nothing to do.

I'm surprised I havent gotten charged with sexual harrassment yet.

bucketofbouncyballs said:

where do you work? i couldn't even sneeze sideways at my old job without being written up for having an attitude problem.

JasmineFire said:

i work for a title/mortgage company I am a loan officer/processor. Its kinda of fun everytime i get a new application the guy next to me i go OMGOMG WAIT...LETS LOOK AT AGE AND HOW MUCH HE MAKES A YEAR...and if hes young sounds hot and makes a decent amount I flirt on the phone. That gets me by. I am also perhaps the only girl in the office who gets into fights with the customers and get away with it. Only cause the transfer the bastards to my line. I laughed at one guy and hes like YOU ARE LAUGHING AT ME!!! THATS UNPROFESSIONAL...I told him...why yes...I am laughing at you because you are simply uncalled for and not letting me finish my sentences...he said he wanted to speak to my supervisor yadi yada me being the professional bullcrapper than i am by the end of the convo he asked me how old I was and if i was single...I WIN.

bucketofbouncyballs said:

you're like me.

Spookymuffin said:

OMG one time...I was hungry for chinese right so I ordered chinese they delivered and i was eating at my desk while doing my work on the side and I hear this chick on the other side go...she didnt even asks us if we wanted chinese. I cant believe her....and this went on literally for 25 minutes. So I didn't say anything, after I finished eating...I got up...and said Okay everyone, I'm going to go to the ladies room and urinate! I thought I would mention it since we are apparently still in highschool, must ask for permission to order food and I figured well I need to ask to take a piss too. Excuse me.
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bucketofbouncyballs said:

what do you do? work-wise that is.

Spookymuffin said:

i process loans for the bank of newyork adn jp morgan chase bank also I deal with a lot of notarys

bucketofbouncyballs said:

process me a loan!