Velveeta!

[friendofjimmyk]

Workplace cheese!

Let's hear your workplace cheese stories.

You know, ala Office Space, "Is this good for the company?" and Hawaiian shirt day...

Since Halloween is coming up, my office decided to do a "haunted corridor" They have taken one part of the hallway and are sectioning it off to make it "spooky".

WOAH. Please help me, so scared!

On a side note - this is for children of employees - but it's still so cheesy to me.

[Rapscallion]

It's ALWAYS hawaiian shirt day...

Rapscallion

[thegiraffe]

Haha - I saw velveeta and was like 'I HAVE to click on that!'.

Off Topic: Velveeta or any of its derivatives (mac n cheese, american cheese, etc) or anything that's the same color isn't allowed in the house. The sheer mention of it makes my dad queasy. We have tons of fun with that

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

-One year we had a "fashion show" where employees of the store would model "haute couture" that could be purchased in our store. One of the main aisles was used as the runway. No, I did not model anything, because I do have limits on what I will do at work .

-One year at Easter we had one of the guys in the backroom decide he wanted to be the Easter Bunny for the day so he dressed up in this really silly pink bunny costume (think Peter Billingsly's pink nightmare). Then one of the managers thought it would be "cute" to have us wear bunny-ear headbands for the day. I didn't wear mine. They kept falling off when I was up to my keister in Easter, pulling Easter merchandise off backroom shelves and trying to push all that crap to the floor so it could sell and not go on clearance.

-Believe it or not, we used to have Christmas parties in January after the Christmas rush had come and gone. Our entertainment for these soirees consisted of a husband and wife, one who was a magician and one who was a ventriloquist. The magician was okay, but the ventriloquist spent her entire act making one of our managers her dummy.

[ArenaBoy]

There was the inter-department basketball game which I did not attend.
There is all the picnics celebrating the end of the summer.
And right now there is some pumpkin carving contest.

The only thing that they did that I liked was if you worked on Christmas you were entered into a raffle, some of the prizes were a big screen TV, a Ipod, and various goodies. I almost won the Ipod too.

[friendofjimmyk]

Gosh, I could really use an Ipod.

[friendofjimmyk]

Haha - I saw velveeta and was like 'I HAVE to click on that!'.

Off Topic: Velveeta or any of its derivatives (mac n cheese, american cheese, etc) or anything that's the same color isn't allowed in the house. The sheer mention of it makes my dad queasy. We have tons of fun with that

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of those items myself. When I was younger, yeah, LOVED the stuff, but now,

[Mark Healey]

It's ALWAYS hawaiian shirt day...

Rapscallion

Isn't that Sandwich Island shirt day to you?

[Rapscallion]

No sandwiches in my wardrobe, can assure you.

Rapscallion

[Seanette]

Tuesday, the game plan is apparently that people are wearing pajamas to work. I'll play along, since there aren't many other excuses to wear my Garfield slippers to work , but I intend to do the commute in normal attire, then change in the bathroom at work, and I'm adding a rainbow clown wig.

[Giggle Goose]

We used to do a "Secret Santa," which I think is really dumb, because I have more than enough people to buy gifts for. If I want to give a gift, I will have a good reason and not because I picked their name out of a hat.

[friendofjimmyk]

EGADS! I don't like secret santa stuff...I try to avoid those as much as possible.

[Brighid45]

Oh ye gods, Secret Santa . . . more like Secret Satan.

For several years I participated in our company's SS and couldn't figure out why I kept getting the same name all the time. Duhh . . . it never occurred to naive little me that the whole stupid thing was rigged. Once I found out, that was it. The last time someone asked me to put my name in, he got the verbal equivalent of:

The only other more humiliating cheesy incident would be the time our crew was forced to sing Christmas carols by our employer, who had fun mocking us. All in good fun, of course.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

We used to do a "Secret Santa," which I think is really dumb, because I have more than enough people to buy gifts for. If I want to give a gift, I will have a good reason and not because I picked their name out of a hat.

We do that too. I always sign up. It's kind of neat.

One year, we had a coworker sign up for that who wasn't all hooked up. She gave her person a baggie of oregano, a small gangster figure out of a vending machine, and some police trading cards as gifts.

[KuzcoLlama]

I gotta admit. I enjoyed playing in the staff secret santa we had last year. I got one of the teachers, and I really messed with his head by making up a "secret santa" email and randomly sending him emails about checking his mailbox or the refrigerator. Best part was, I always got to school before most of the teachers did, so he never figured out who it was.

I am, the stealthy llama.