Happy New Year Everybody! Johnny Fastlane here to tell you the story I think of every year at this time:
Thinkin' about New Years reminds me of the time a bunch of my coworkers and I snuck off to the supply room to partake in 2 bottles of cheap champagne out of foam cups. It was about 3 PM on New Year's Eve and most people in the office had dissapated and the floor was pretty quiet. The boss was gone for the whole week between Christmas and New Years so we figured there was some fun to be had during this rare "cats away" week. Well about 4 PM, we were still in there when the boss decided to stop by the office suposedly to pick up some papers he left in the office. Well, when he got there, the floor was deserted and he began to get pissed off thinking we had all left for the day without his permission. Then he heard the din of his employees half cocked on cheap champagne having an office supply war in the supply room. Rubberbands, paper clips, post-it's you name it, we were throwing it. As they say, it's all fun and games till...SOMEBODY GETS HURT. And on this occasion that somebody happened to be the bossman! Pissed off, he flung open the door of the supply room to see 8 of his employees all champagned up and whipping supplies at each other. You guessed it, as he opened the door to release holy hell on his staff, a mousepad came whipping through the air like a frisbee and hit him on the side of the face. Needless to say, this just enraged him more. My friends, let me tell you, his rage was met with absolute dead silence. We were all in shock! I personally thought it was a bubbly champagne hallucination but quickly realized I was wrong! He just kept screaming the word "OUT!" over and over as we hung our heads and filed out of the room. What we thought was going to be a great "play day" turned out to be a complete buzz kill. He had us file into a conference room where he lectured us for 2 hours like a dad who lectures his teenage girl the first time he finds out she snuck out of the house. There was a lot of words and phrases used like "can't be trusted", "dissapointed", "disgusted", "never in my life", blah blah blah while we're all trying to come down from our champagne. Now, I was about 24 at the time, but between the 8 of us, the average age was about 40 and 2 were older than the boss, so the whole situation was excrutiatingly akward. When we all returned in the new year we were on our best behavior for the next few months till he asked to be transferred out and we finally got a cooler boss who would participate in the fun.
Yeah, we were having fun, but so what, it was New Year's Eve and most of the office was allowed to leave anyway. There was no work to be done, believe me. Anyway, I still get a smirk on my face when I think about it. I firmly believe that you gotta have fun at work! Yeah get your work done and then who cares if you release a little stress afterwards, it only makes you appreciate your job more. That's what I SAY ANYWAY!
vanilla ginger(01/26/2006)
Arthropod firmly lodged up his posterior! Hopefully you all took the party off site and continued your drinking and cavorting in a more welcoming atmosphere.
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