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