Our marketing department thought they’d do something nice for us and “kick off summer” on June 21st, with cold beverages and personal spritzing fans. The exceedingly perky announcement from Corporate came via e-mail to those selected at each office to manage the event (me). Then came the notice the day before that shipping issues delayed the event and they’d get back to me. Over the course of the last few days, some beer (Corona), some lemonade (Minute Maid) and spritzing fans arrived by UPS/Fedex. I guess they also meant I should find a way to refrigerate this stuff and put the damn fans together myself, right? Good thing there are only a few of us. Some of our offices have hundreds of people and I’m imagining some mighty ticked off interns sitting there until midnight assembling those little suckers. The money they spent in shipping when I could have had the slave run out and buy the stuff seemed pretty ridiculous and now, we’re celebrating the event of June 29th, not the first day of summer. Memorable. Effective. Great job!
The Sacramento Monarchs suffered a serious loss to the Seattle Storm last night. I’m just thinking that not enough people were putting the “Go Monarchs” vibe out there…and it cost me $1,000,000, so I’m probably going to be hitting ya’ll up for a loan come rent time.
Have a great day tomorrow—it holds a lot of promise!
Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. ~ William Arthur Ward
Published on: Jun 29, 2006
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