| Not everyone has a metal "Christmas tree" sculpture | | | | Clark Griswold wins every year as the most |
| decorated with lights and ornaments in their office or | | | | decorated cubicle for obvious reasons- his cube glows |
| reindeers made from vending machine pretzels. A lot | | | | for the month before Christmas and a couple weeks |
| of offices don't even decorate with all the different | | | | after with neon red and green lights. |
| holidays that people celebrate- no one wants to | | | | Every year we do the traditional holiday party too. We |
| offend. But in our office it's a computer Christmas. | | | | all gather in the main room and watch South Park |
| Instead of sleighs and colored balls on the Christmas | | | | while sipping eggnog and unwrap bacon wrapping |
| tree, we've hung a red and green computer mouse | | | | paper snow-globes of Darth Vader or Circuit City gift |
| from a metal tree someone created out of old coat | | | | certificates. We don't know what kind of sneaky |
| hangers and cubical parts, then spray painted it gold. A | | | | surprise our boss is going to be surprising us with this |
| shiny spray-painted gold Microsoft mouse acts like our | | | | year as our thank-you company gift. Last year it was |
| Christmas star and a touch pad keyboard rests just | | | | an XBOX for the break room and the year before |
| beneath the tree like a special gift from Santa. | | | | that we all got a remote controlled computer mouse. |
| No, it's not a traditional Christmas in our office, but | | | | Rumor has it that we are getting 30 minute massages |
| when you look around at the people who I work with, | | | | from the Massage Hut across the street from us. I |
| we are all a little "geeky" and we like it that way. We | | | | thought about what some of my co-workers would |
| couldn't imagine a white elephant gift exchange without | | | | think about that. A lot of them might be excited to |
| R2D2 wrapping paper or bacon wrapping paper | | | | show off their Lord of The Rings trilogy tattoos or |
| concealing a coveted touch pad mouse or cordless | | | | some may be too embarrassed to make eye-contact |
| ergonomic mouse. That is just who we are. | | | | with a real person- okay not true, but we are not the |
| We don't have just a food drive and toy drive box, we | | | | most social bunch. |
| have a box for recycled computer equipment to | | | | Sure if we were a stuffier group of people we might |
| donate to a needy school. Someone even filled it with | | | | demand a lobster and steak dinner in a nice restaurant |
| some new software and a couple new touch pad | | | | for our company party, but we don't sell retail Rolexes |
| keyboards. It's a tech-y Christmas for sure, especially | | | | or stocks, we create programs and we come to work |
| when there is an award for the most decorated | | | | in t-shirts and jeans. We like our Futurama and our |
| cubicle. I don't think I am going to win this year. Actually, | | | | Robot Chicken marathons- we are computer geeks |
| I never win- some people really go over the edge with | | | | and we like our computer Christmas. |
| their decorations. The tech support guy we nicknamed | | | | |