A good day
Jun. 24th, 2009 09:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kippurbirdI am having chocolate cake for breakfast today. Why chocolate cake you may ask? Because it's left over from a surprise party yesterday at work. A surprise party for me.
It wasn't a complete surprise. After all I knew there would be food. Last week I suggested a potluck lunch after seeing one of the other departments bringing food in. The boss liked the suggestion and said I should arrange it for next Tuesday which was Rosh Kodesh (the first day of the new month). I was we don't need it to be for a holiday or anything like that, just a random library lunch thing. Bossman insisted and so I managed to do the food shuffle.
Tuesday comes and I bring my tuna casserole to share and other people have their food. It seems nice. The lunch is set for eleven which meant I'd be up at the front before it started. Come elevenish one of the co-workers says bossman wants to see me. I figure he wants to ask me about some sort of random library thingamagjig.
No. It turns out that the whole Rosh Kodesh was a ruse. They were throwing me an employee recognition party. See, the school doesn't recognize part time employees for things like having worked there for five, ten etc years, for some reason or another. I've been working at the library officially for the past eight years and have gotten squat beyond the bossman's and everyone else's constant you're a fantastic worker. Sure, that's nice, but it's hard when you're sitting at the employee recognition lunches and seeing people who've been there less time than you get recognized because they're full time. I can't work full time because a) it would drive me crazy and b) they can't pay me. Thus I am doomed to perpetual limbo of good work and long service but no recognition.
Apparently the library people realized this so they threw me a luncheon. To say I was shocked is an understatement. I got a warm fuzzy feeling of snuggling kittens though as they told me how much I was appreciated and I got a card and a Chamsah.
It's good to know you're appreciated like that, even if it's not official recognition.
It wasn't a complete surprise. After all I knew there would be food. Last week I suggested a potluck lunch after seeing one of the other departments bringing food in. The boss liked the suggestion and said I should arrange it for next Tuesday which was Rosh Kodesh (the first day of the new month). I was we don't need it to be for a holiday or anything like that, just a random library lunch thing. Bossman insisted and so I managed to do the food shuffle.
Tuesday comes and I bring my tuna casserole to share and other people have their food. It seems nice. The lunch is set for eleven which meant I'd be up at the front before it started. Come elevenish one of the co-workers says bossman wants to see me. I figure he wants to ask me about some sort of random library thingamagjig.
No. It turns out that the whole Rosh Kodesh was a ruse. They were throwing me an employee recognition party. See, the school doesn't recognize part time employees for things like having worked there for five, ten etc years, for some reason or another. I've been working at the library officially for the past eight years and have gotten squat beyond the bossman's and everyone else's constant you're a fantastic worker. Sure, that's nice, but it's hard when you're sitting at the employee recognition lunches and seeing people who've been there less time than you get recognized because they're full time. I can't work full time because a) it would drive me crazy and b) they can't pay me. Thus I am doomed to perpetual limbo of good work and long service but no recognition.
Apparently the library people realized this so they threw me a luncheon. To say I was shocked is an understatement. I got a warm fuzzy feeling of snuggling kittens though as they told me how much I was appreciated and I got a card and a Chamsah.
It's good to know you're appreciated like that, even if it's not official recognition.
