Maybe I am not a team player. Maybe I choose to dance to the beat of my own drum in a hectic work environment. Maybe I am blogging you this message during a mediocre PowerPoint presentation. Whatever the case might be with me, I do know one thing for sure, "I will not be participating in the office Potluck in honor of Thanksgiving!"
I can understand the "family" message that our floor committee is trying to convey. (Since we work with each other more than we see the people who actually matter.) But these people are not "real family." I resent the way they want everybody inthe office "family" to bring in a dish, eat together and talk together.
This guru is totally against that for these reasons:
1: If I have never been in your kitchen at home, I will NOT eat your goods. The last thing I need to eat is dog hair potato salad with snotty child spinach dip.
2: If I don't like you, I will NOT eat your goods. So if you somehow dumped your work on me and took credit for it, we are NOT cool and I will not eat your "I've last cleaned my oven about 10 years ago" Macaroni and Cheese.
Last but certainly not least, flu season and the Holiday season goes hand-in-hand. And speaking of hands, how often do you wash yours? I've stood in the bathroom and witnessed coworkers going from the seat, directly out the door without one ounce of water hitting their crappy hands! (Pun could be intended depending on your mood). So sorry, I will NOT eat your H1N1-chip cookies.
Remember, OHW family, you are playing Russian Roulette by attending the stupid office Potluck with your coworkers. So proceed with extreme caution.
I have to get back to work... Hardly!!!
I can understand the "family" message that our floor committee is trying to convey. (Since we work with each other more than we see the people who actually matter.) But these people are not "real family." I resent the way they want everybody inthe office "family" to bring in a dish, eat together and talk together.
This guru is totally against that for these reasons:
1: If I have never been in your kitchen at home, I will NOT eat your goods. The last thing I need to eat is dog hair potato salad with snotty child spinach dip.
2: If I don't like you, I will NOT eat your goods. So if you somehow dumped your work on me and took credit for it, we are NOT cool and I will not eat your "I've last cleaned my oven about 10 years ago" Macaroni and Cheese.
Last but certainly not least, flu season and the Holiday season goes hand-in-hand. And speaking of hands, how often do you wash yours? I've stood in the bathroom and witnessed coworkers going from the seat, directly out the door without one ounce of water hitting their crappy hands! (Pun could be intended depending on your mood). So sorry, I will NOT eat your H1N1-chip cookies.
Remember, OHW family, you are playing Russian Roulette by attending the stupid office Potluck with your coworkers. So proceed with extreme caution.
I have to get back to work... Hardly!!!
7 comments:
This is very true, but I am still going to take my chances and par take in the Office Pot Luck here! Im pregnant, and the baby would be mad at me, if i didnt partake!!!
Eh upper management cancelled their holiday parties so our boss decided to do the same. Can you tell I'm all broken up about it? I usually only bring cookies anyway and always end up "accidentally" absent during that time too. I'm usually never in the mood for bland arse food sprinkled with germs on the top.
We just had a potluck/happy birthday/welcome to the company thing today. The pizzas were ordered, and a few simple things were brought in to eat (I "made" the chex mix aka bought them at walgreens)
But potlucks are like russian roulette...you can't eat everybody's shit...Especially the potato salad...and other 'dishes' they come up with...But more often than not...I go for the stuff that is cooked cooked and kept warm in a crock pot or something like that. And if there isn't a fork or serving utensil I put one there and then don't eat it (unless I get there when it was first put out).
KMN(YQ)
I agree about the whole anti-office potluck movement. I don't want to stand around with these people any more than I have to, so standing around pretending to eat and pretending to like it is not something I look forward to doing. My current boss nixed that crap, anyway... he's so straight-to-the-point and kinda non-traditional and I like it. It's like... he feels the same way as the blog rant, but he'd never say it, so he just did away with them.
If we eat anything together, it's something that was purchased from somewhere else. The whole singing "happy birthday" thing is getting old, too. We'll sing H.B., then cut the cake and stand around eating it while having mindless, bullshit, obligatory conversation. Spare me.
KMN and Libra Gurl, I am with you ALL the way! (hence the rant)
Let’s cut through the chase. Another name for office functions is goof off time; the difference is that it is authorized. Come on GURUs from Hardly Working, you know about goof off time. Whether you eat someone’s cooking is a personal choice, no one is making you eat. A lot of jobs cut you loose early after the social function. You can just stand up, look kool while sipping on a 7-UP and don’t eat, your choice. So what if you had to bring something, doesn’t mean you have to eat. Alternative is no office function and your ass works the full 8 hours (or whatever you work) with only your two 20-minute breaks (at the snack machine) and 30-minute lunch break (understanding that hardly working folks will drag it out to 60 minutes). I say, leave the office functions along as long as nobody is making you eat!
WOW! Didnt look at it this way. I think I like how you think Diligentleman! Maybe we need the re-evaluate this process.
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