Ya gotta understand, it's borne out of the same principles as Secretaries (oops! I mean "Adminsistrative Assistants." Sorry! My Bad!) Day.
Which is to say, the company has this odd little dead-end branch on its corporate tree, the denizens of which really can't move up anyplace. It's not that they don't do their jobs, they do them just fine -- just with a bizarrely out-of-whack sense of their own importance, with the commensurate surly and condescending attitudes to match (witness the buffoonery about forgetting users' passwords in this very thread).
You don't want to pay them any more, lest they start making more than the employees who actually produce something tangible and contribute to the corporation's bottom line, but you don't want to piss them off either, because they always make a point of creating (and paranoidly guarding) their wacky and personalized systems (for what should be cookie-cutter procedures across all US companies), so it becomes a real hassle to replace them.
"OK, how 'bout we give them their Own Holiday, order up some flowers, and maybe take them to lunch!"
"Yeah, that's the ticket!"
"I don't want to take him to lunch; you take him to lunch."
"Um, OK, but you take him next year..."
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Ya gotta understand, it's borne out of the same principles as Secretaries (oops! I mean "Adminsistrative Assistants." Sorry! My Bad!) Day. Which is to say, the company has this odd little dead-end branch on its corporate tree, the denizens of which really can't move up anyplace. It's not that they don't do their jobs, they do them just fine -- just with a bizarrely out-of-whack sense of their own importance, with the commensurate surly and condescending attitudes to match (witness the buffoonery about forgetting users' passwords in this very thread). You don't want to pay them any more, lest they start making more than the employees who actually produce something tangible and contribute to the corporation's bottom line, but you don't want to piss them off either, because they always make a point of creating (and paranoidly guarding) their wacky and personalized systems (for what should be cookie-cutter procedures across all US companies), so it becomes a real hassle to replace them. "OK, how 'bout we give them their Own Holiday, order up some flowers, and maybe take them to lunch!" "Yeah, that's the ticket!" "I don't want to take him to lunch; you take him to lunch." "Um, OK, but you take him next year..."