DONUTS!
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okay, this story is long and complicated, too much so when you remember it's over donuts :)
so every year the state does a charitable contributions drive. for 3 days offices sell food, have flea markets, and do whatever to make money. and usually if you can't get places to donate the food, the employees come out of their pockets.
so the bright idea this year was to do a Krispy Kreme fundraising drive. Sell donuts for $5, make a profit of $2.5 on each box and no one has to come out of their own pockets. actually the sheet had 3 options:
1. a box of donuts for $5
2. a certificate for a free box of donuts for $5
3. a punch card for $5. buy a box and get a punch and a free box. the card allowed 10 punches.
Day 1 - so A (intials to protect my job the innocent) planned to sell as many as possible because she knew people like me and our friend D might not sell that much. so she faxes the forms to 2 people in the building we use to work in, 1 to a former co-worker at their current job, and her husband at his job.
Day 2 - A already has orders faxed back in and even has the money already. but the M tells her, myself, and two of our supervisors that whoopsies the punch cards would cost us $7 so we need to sell them for $10. A tells him that she already sold hers and she is not going back to those people and ask for $5. it wasn't her fault that M handed out the wrong information (apparently they were using old forms instead of calling Krispy Kreme and making sure everything was accurate). nothing else was said, as if everything was settled. i actually thought M was just going to throw in the extra $2 per card (4 total) and cut their losses.
Day 3 (morning) - A comes in and M tells her that Krispy Kreme would not take $5 for the punch cards (my thought: no shit, sherlock. they want their $7). A calls the people who bought them and asks if they would take donuts. basically she was told "hell naw. gimme my money back" which makes sense too because KK donuts are nasty if they aren't fresh. A left early that day leaving her last order form behind.
that would have been the end of it. the last order form had $130 worth of orders so everything still would have been fine. except that order form was for all certificates. but since it wasn't specified on the form, M took it upon himself to get all donuts. 26 boxes of donuts. A got pissed because she said they got smart with her and said "technically the list didn't say certificates." she replied it didn't say donuts either. in fact the 2 sheets they had given her only mentioned punch cards and certifcates, so the woman had highlighted cetrifcates. and since they didn't understand the form, they should have waited for her to come back or called her and asked. so she called the woman who took the orders. that woman refused the donuts. everyone wanted certificates. so the plan was to sell the donuts to employees in the building, take the money back to KK and get the certificates. A talked the woman into doing this. but in the middle of doing this the woman who sits besides her took it upon herself to convey WRONGLY the telephone conversation to M. M stomps (A words) to A's desk and apparently just came to her with the wrong attitude.
START HERE FOR THE GOOD STUFF
A starting yelling at M that she didn't like the way he came to her. She has a child his age so she's not taking shit from him. If he had wanted to know something, he should have came to her instead of listening to somebody who had no clue what was going on. She was sick of all the gossip that goes on in the office and people running around telling the wrong shit about something they had no business with. And she didn't want any damn certificates. She wanted all the money back in her hand before she left for the day. She didn't have to do shit. She was doing the State a favor, not the other way around. Now she was so loud i thought they were still on the floor at her cube. No. They were in the manager's office, with the door closed. She was that pissed. And all anyone really knew was that they were fighting over the donuts but not exactly sure why.
A left with her $130 and did not come to work the following day because she was returning the money to everyone.
And that is how donuts, donuts for charity no less, turn into a yelling match in an office building, leaving all the other employees uncomfortable and confused.
i love my office.
okay, this story is long and complicated, too much so when you remember it's over donuts :)
so every year the state does a charitable contributions drive. for 3 days offices sell food, have flea markets, and do whatever to make money. and usually if you can't get places to donate the food, the employees come out of their pockets.
so the bright idea this year was to do a Krispy Kreme fundraising drive. Sell donuts for $5, make a profit of $2.5 on each box and no one has to come out of their own pockets. actually the sheet had 3 options:
1. a box of donuts for $5
2. a certificate for a free box of donuts for $5
3. a punch card for $5. buy a box and get a punch and a free box. the card allowed 10 punches.
Day 1 - so A (intials to protect my job the innocent) planned to sell as many as possible because she knew people like me and our friend D might not sell that much. so she faxes the forms to 2 people in the building we use to work in, 1 to a former co-worker at their current job, and her husband at his job.
Day 2 - A already has orders faxed back in and even has the money already. but the M tells her, myself, and two of our supervisors that whoopsies the punch cards would cost us $7 so we need to sell them for $10. A tells him that she already sold hers and she is not going back to those people and ask for $5. it wasn't her fault that M handed out the wrong information (apparently they were using old forms instead of calling Krispy Kreme and making sure everything was accurate). nothing else was said, as if everything was settled. i actually thought M was just going to throw in the extra $2 per card (4 total) and cut their losses.
Day 3 (morning) - A comes in and M tells her that Krispy Kreme would not take $5 for the punch cards (my thought: no shit, sherlock. they want their $7). A calls the people who bought them and asks if they would take donuts. basically she was told "hell naw. gimme my money back" which makes sense too because KK donuts are nasty if they aren't fresh. A left early that day leaving her last order form behind.
that would have been the end of it. the last order form had $130 worth of orders so everything still would have been fine. except that order form was for all certificates. but since it wasn't specified on the form, M took it upon himself to get all donuts. 26 boxes of donuts. A got pissed because she said they got smart with her and said "technically the list didn't say certificates." she replied it didn't say donuts either. in fact the 2 sheets they had given her only mentioned punch cards and certifcates, so the woman had highlighted cetrifcates. and since they didn't understand the form, they should have waited for her to come back or called her and asked. so she called the woman who took the orders. that woman refused the donuts. everyone wanted certificates. so the plan was to sell the donuts to employees in the building, take the money back to KK and get the certificates. A talked the woman into doing this. but in the middle of doing this the woman who sits besides her took it upon herself to convey WRONGLY the telephone conversation to M. M stomps (A words) to A's desk and apparently just came to her with the wrong attitude.
START HERE FOR THE GOOD STUFF
A starting yelling at M that she didn't like the way he came to her. She has a child his age so she's not taking shit from him. If he had wanted to know something, he should have came to her instead of listening to somebody who had no clue what was going on. She was sick of all the gossip that goes on in the office and people running around telling the wrong shit about something they had no business with. And she didn't want any damn certificates. She wanted all the money back in her hand before she left for the day. She didn't have to do shit. She was doing the State a favor, not the other way around. Now she was so loud i thought they were still on the floor at her cube. No. They were in the manager's office, with the door closed. She was that pissed. And all anyone really knew was that they were fighting over the donuts but not exactly sure why.
A left with her $130 and did not come to work the following day because she was returning the money to everyone.
And that is how donuts, donuts for charity no less, turn into a yelling match in an office building, leaving all the other employees uncomfortable and confused.
i love my office.