Each month, the people in my office whose birthdays fall in that month are allotted certain moneys for the purpose of purchasing food for everyone. You know, couple hundred bucks gets us pizza or burritos, sometimes breakfast, fajitas…whatever. We April babies did Potbelly’s.
April was the last month to do anything!!!!!
I need to take control of this situation, perhaps revolutionize the process. Obligations and affections to the midday meal shouldn't be limited to this blog or the people who participate in it, right? I need to make lunch better in general. We all do. I’m not fucking around. Action will be taken today.
How do your offices approach communal lunches?
And wfl?
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i was told that our office used to do something similar where every month we'd celebrate everyone's bday that month. but somehow it got abandoned b/c some people's bdays got forgotten, etc. and people got offended and bent out of shape. i think it should be reinstalled, but our org has enough problems to deal with than "hey, we need to bring back once a month bday celebrations!"
pettiness gets in the way of office lunches. it's the nature of the "whiney" beast.
We don't do that here ever. Apparently some years ago, a particularly sensitive gentleman's birthday was forgotten, and from then on, there was to be no celebrating. We seem to have pretty much stuck with that. Unless there's a meeting with some external person, we don't do communal lunches around these parts. And, not being much of a joiner (as I have been described) I'm a-okay with that.
I used to get lunch with LaChoi quite a bit, but now she's all rashy, so I think I'll be ending that practice.
Now, back to my directing duties of cleaning my office and stuffing envelopes.
There are literally herd of us that go to lunch together.
This has to be taken seriously because many of us have no social\survival skills so they would be killed in the wild by business suited, sledge hammer precision females with $200 coiffers.
Therefore we are pack grazers so that only the weakest of us can be caught or killed.
And we get discounts at some of the best places in Montrose.
I got some grpaefuit lovin' today for lunch. TexEsq and I fight over the Texas Pink grapefruits so I know I did something right last night.
(I just sent the email below to my office mgr.)
Dear Office Manager Mary,
What's up with our pathetic selves? Why do so many months go by without a birthday celebration (e.g., lunch)?
Someone needs to be policing this and making sure that we're observing each month (and getting the free eats we deserve). I think I know just the person for the job. Me!
I would like to volunteer to become staff "Lunch Baron." (Basically, I'll send a reminder e-mail every month to the birthday babies and keep on them until they order food.)
What do you think?
-(lester)
I work in a really small office, but my boss likes to buy us lunch. At least once a week he buys for us, but he loves to eat hot dogs which are tasty and all but I am little more health and fat conscious than that. My birthday is next month, so we'll see what kind of fete they'll cook up. Hopefully, not hot dogs
Birthday lunches in my office have traditionally been done by group. Everyone typically gets a first day lunch and a last day lunch. When the boss wants a big group to go for a working lunch he has a place that we always go to. So much so that it is a running joke around the office.
I need a comfort food lunch today.
It's dreary both outside and inside the office. Maybe a trip to the Soho buffet.
I brought my lunch today. I made homemade soup last night, it ostensibly was going to be a chicken and white bean chili, but then I added tomatoes and carrots and green peppers and thinned it down quite a bit and it ended up more soup than chili. Quite tasty, though. I also brought a decent size salad of romaine, red peppers, cucumbers and feta. And I brought a Minneola for the afternoon sugar fix.
Here comes the sun...it's getting better outside at least.
yeah, the real reason that HaterTot and i do not lunch anymore is b/c we are poor, not b/c of my rash.
THE FOLLOWING IS NOT LUNCH RELATED:
ok, so i got this crazy rash that surrounds my entire midsecion. i went to the crazy serbian doctor again. she told me that it's either an allergy or a virus and, either way, she cannot do anything for me. (sound familiar?) she told me to take benedryl for itchiness and wait for it to go away.
at least she said she had a similar kind of thing happen to her when she moved to the states and it went away in a few days. when i asked her if it was contagious she said, "not if it's just an allergic reaction. but if it's viral? ehhhhh, maybe."
what kind of horse shit is that anyway?
Chicago and Houston are sister cities, they are both pretty ugly.
Rico, are you going to the MSU/NU game at NU next month?
LaChoi - go to another doctor!! That is total crap. You could end up really sick.
Last night I dreamt that I was Paris Hilton's gopher girl, kind of. In my dream, she was an MSU graduate. (no, I'm not joking)
the C-choi, who is a nurse, confirmed that she had a similar thing and it cleared in 3 or 4 days. how random! will report progress.
lunch...i have no clue. i freaked out this morning over the rash so much that i didn't pack a lunch. breadline may be what i do.
Baba ghanouj (sp?) for lunch today - plus the hummus from Monday. This is the spiciest baba I've ever had. I love it!
When we have an office lunch, it is courtesy of brown bag. I.e. bring your own damn lunch. Cheap office. And for birthdays, people bring their own cake. Which is fine, saves the trouble of going around & collecting money or trying to get the office to pay (Ha ha!!!), but the people who don't ever bring desserts are the first ones in line. So annoying. Today someone brought cupcakes from Cakelove! I can't wait for her to put them out!! Never had Cakelove before! I am looking forward to a Cakeorgasm (cakegasm?) followed shortly by a Cakesugarcrash.
Ooh, LaChoi - I had this totally random rash for no reason - not especially itchy (unless I got overheated or sweaty or something) - had it for a couple of weeks. It went away like a day after I started using that oatmeal soap - what's it called? Oh right, Aaaaah, Aveno. Give that a try if it doesn't go away.
Red thai curry w/chicken and Sai krok e-sarn.
Yeah, I could see Paris as a Spartan -- maybe Ferris State. Something like that.
Recess Club (ham, turkey, swiss, bacon, avocado, mayo, honey mustard,lto) and a cup of lobster bisque from Daily Market.
I should elaborate that though she was an MSU grad, she was actually retaking some high school classes in Manhattan, where I was sent all over town looking for fizzy water, which for some reason, was scarce.
LT - I am a cakelove connosieur. Except, I find it to be a bit overrated in truth, for the price. A dozen cupcakes costs $36 - whoever this lady in your office is, must really like you guys. My recommendation is to make sure the cupcakes are brought to room temp before enjoying them. Don't get me wrong, they're damn good, as are their cakes, but for the price, I want multiple orgasms on a plate, with sparkles and shiny things, and ribbons and bows. That said, I now want cupcakes and champagne. What else is new?
Mmmmm . . . she said she was putting them out at about 2. And they've been sitting on her cube shelf all morning, so they should be nice & room temp. You've met her - you sat next to her & her beau at my b-day. I'm actually kind of surprised that she didn't bake something! After buying her condo she's in money-saving mode. Maybe she was in time-saving mode last night.
I'm still full from my baba, hummus, & pita. How will I cram more sugar & calories into my yaw?!? Oh, right. I'm a pig.
LT, I doubt that you're a pig.
Random cupacke discussion has to include Houston's own Dessert Gallery. Birthday cakes are crap .. you've gotta tote around a damn knife or serving implement. screw dat!
The Dessert Gallery has da baker's dozen birthday cupcakes ... puts them all together and puts a huge chocolate plack over the top with your choice of writing. Birthday cake advertising space and cupcake ease. Its helps that they are perfect cupcakes. mmmmmm
Chicago's Evolving Food Pyramid
got the salad from breadline, but they ran out of chicken curry salad. so i ended up getting just straight cous cous and then running to abp for their curry rice and lentil soup.
that's right folks, i did a two stop lunch.
before i could finish, i had to be in a teleconference meeting for the last hour. just as things started to get substantive, my benedryl kicked in and i started feeling all light headed and drowsy. as i made comments i kept wondering if anyone could comprehend a thing i was saying...i almost started slurring. i felt sort of embarassed.
i can barely keep myself awake right now. at least i don't itch.
LT -- i want a cupcake status report.
james -- isn't there a saying that everything is bigger in texas? i guess that also goes for cupcakes...huge chocolate plaque? man, that's intense.
i'm itchy again. i think i'm going to get a milkshake to make myself feel better.
Holy busy day for me. I haven't had lunch yet! and its almost quittin' time. I may go grab a sandwich or something.
I NEVER miss lunch. Crazy!!
I just woke up from my Cakecoma. I had raspberry frosting on a yellow cupcake. The frosting was divine. The cake itself was not as good. It was good and all, but a little on the dry side. But that frosting was gooooooood. It literally melted in my mouth. I think I'm with HT, though. A little overpriced. Unless she got day-olds. Anyhow, it was good enough to induce cakesugarrush & cakecoma. Now I'm having cakesugarcravings. I think there's some left over there . . . .
(Lester),
Nancy said if you want to handle that, it's great. I dub you "Lunch Baron". Good luck!
Mary
Mary O.
Office Manager
I walk the walk, people. I walk the walk.
Prove it Lester.
Get the January birthdays done.
Show us.
I WANT TO MAKE SOMEONE BLEED!!!!!
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