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