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Holiday Cheer in the Workplace?
inherent asks: "With the holiday's quickly approaching, the a
fternoon here at work has begun degrading into a large-scale
decorations-fest. Having recently graduated College, I'm used to
much more 'outlandish' decorations than those I see going up on cube
walls around me. What are some /.ers best and worst memories of
holiday cheer in the workplace?" I'm from the school of thought
that leaves the Christmas decorations for when it's closer to
Christmas rather than before Thanksgiving, but maybe that's
just me. But, for those of you who just can't wait to share the
cheer, this year...this one is for you.
I won't speak for everyone else but where I am everyone seems to want to toss this chear on me. I would rather happily keep on working and not notice the time of year.
I do not celibrate christmas or any other of the fun holidays during this time of year. I would rather them do away with them if possible.
What bugs me the most is everything everyone seems to do is all christmas related. Generic decorations I do not mind, but I would rather not be confronted with a picture of St. Nick at the work place.
Guess what I'm trying to say is decorate and celebrate if you must, because if no other reason we all need to lighten up and take a break, but make it generic so those of us that are a little disgruntled with this time of year are able to keep on working. Forced participation in the company or IT christmas parties... Yick!
The program isn't debugged until the last user is dead.
http://www.xmasresistance.org/
An Education is the Font of All Liberty
When I was working at HBO, we held a "decorate your cubicle" contest. As I tend to be a bit obsessive-compulsive about competitions, I decided to really go to town on my cubicle.
:)
I picked up some scrap pieces of wood from the local lumber shop (basically gardening stakes) and nailed them together to create a simple inverted-V roof that sat on top of the cubicle walls.
I then covered the frame with the brown paper that you can wrap packages in (came from UPS) to make a roof, as well as the sides of the cubicle. With a little imagination, it looked like a little brown house.
After that, I used cotton along the edges to mimic the icing of a gingerbread house, and bought lots of lollipops and candy canes which I stuck on the outside.
In the end, it really did look remarkably like a Gingerbread cubicle.
One of my coworkers, once he saw it, replaced the little nametag on the outside (which read Peter Hamlen, Systems Analyst) with Esmerelda, Wicked Witch.
The best part was that Dec 28th was "Family Day" at HBO, so there was a steady stream of children coming onto the floor saying "I want to see the gingerbread house". Not a lot of work got done that day...