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How to annoy me

November 12, 2003 By: bio Category: General

Our company is once again setting up for the holiday party in December.

Invitations delivered to our desks last Friday, and as usual, I had my RSVP in by 8:10 am on the same day.

Well, I guess that people are slow in turning them in. The organizers need to get a headcount so they can get it all set up, so they came up with a plan to get people to RSVP. They sent out an email reminder with an incentive: turn in your RSVP today between and receive a free glass ornament for your tree.

So… I head down at the appointed time and was told “No. You have to turn in your money and RSVP now to get one.”

“I paid the day you sent them out” I said.

“Then you don’t get one” he replied.

Normally I pretty much go with the flow, but the way he said it pissed me off. My reply was “So, what your saying is: next year I should wait to turn in my RSVP until after your desperate for a headcount, right?”.

His reply was a snooty look.

Really, not getting an ornament was no big deal, but the way I was told I wasn’t getting one was asinine.

Apparently, some of the other people on the party organization team thought this was fairly stupid too, so they held some ornaments in reserve to give to the people who had pre-paid.

I got a bear in a soldier’s uniform.

0 Comments to “How to annoy me”


  1. It’s like the Old Man in “A Christmas Story” with his “Valuable Prize.” Hang that bear proudly. It’s not a leg-with-garter lamp, but its the principle of the matter.

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  2. Dang, thought I told you that half of all bosses are assholes and the rest are just co**suckers

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  3. While that could be true, the person in question is not management. He is, however, the person who purchased the house across the street from my grandmother.

    Gotta play nicey, nice for grandma’s sake.

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  4. Lol, I know Granny, she can make his life miserable, He’d never know what hit him.

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