The last straw
Okay, this takes the cake. You've all read my rants about my workplace. There are decorations on every surface: lights, evergreens, jingle bells, tinsel, fake snow, you name it. Even our computer desktops match the decor. I'm surrounded by so much red and green, in such eyewatering combinations, that I'm starting to pray for spontaneous colorblindness. On "Theme Days," like Dickens Day or Snow Carnival, all the decorations are redone and half the people turn up in theme costumes. "Seasonal scents" are pumped through the air - Frosty Pine, Cozy Cinnamon, etc. (Thank goodness it only took one evacuation to put an end to the "Nostalgic Woodsmoke.") The only break from the piped-in Christmas music is the mandated "caroling break" every afternoon.
I don't think I've talked about the food recently. I have to admit the cafeteria is pretty good... as long as you regard vegetables as a very minor sidelight to slabs of roast beef or turkey and think dessert is the main point of the meal. The breakroom, which is right by my office, is always heaped with cookies and candy. There are cocoa makers next to the coffee makers. Even the coffee is candy cane flavored. (Ever had peppermint in coffee? It's vile.) I'm surprised I don't weigh 500 pounds by now. But now the one last vestige of normalcy is gone.
The water in the watercoolers has been replaced with (nonalcoholic) eggnog.
I hate eggnog.
Kill me now.
I don't think I've talked about the food recently. I have to admit the cafeteria is pretty good... as long as you regard vegetables as a very minor sidelight to slabs of roast beef or turkey and think dessert is the main point of the meal. The breakroom, which is right by my office, is always heaped with cookies and candy. There are cocoa makers next to the coffee makers. Even the coffee is candy cane flavored. (Ever had peppermint in coffee? It's vile.) I'm surprised I don't weigh 500 pounds by now. But now the one last vestige of normalcy is gone.
The water in the watercoolers has been replaced with (nonalcoholic) eggnog.
I hate eggnog.
Kill me now.