irritated at work…
So we had the shower on Monday. She got a ton of presents(which we had no idea what they were, but we bought them.) But do you know what they brought for food? A cake, a bag of candy, and peanuts. THAT’S IT!! My boss brought in brownies and they asked one other lady to bring in chips. But they only brought in a cake for the party basically b/c no one opened the candy or had any peanuts. It was really nice that the diabetic people in our department were nice enough to donate but yet couldn’t enjoy the food since they did a piss-poor job of ‘catering’ the shower.
Then when the HR dept head handed her the card, she said, “I just signed everyone’s name.” Now we have ALWAYS passed around the card for everyone to sign their own name and note if they wished (even for occassions outside of our departments - like retirements or people leaving). I could not believe that I couldn’t even sign my own congratulatory note. Basically, they just wanted our money and then for us to stay out of it. I was very upset with the way it was handled.
I know they were excited, but other people besides them like this co-worker and I could have done a heck of a lot better job than what they did. I thought it was a pitiful excuse for a shower.
Of course, I was pms’ing at the time and very upset with the head HR lady already, so it didn’t take much to get me started. I was super-bitchy that day.



