Holiday Flo

Flo and I have new digs again....looking forward to staying put for a while.  She is sporting her holiday bling after being very visible to everyone walking around on the 2nd floor for the past six months.  People actually know where I sit because they know where the office with the flamingo is.....not sure if that is good or bad yet.  I also decorated my boss's office for the holidays.  He was in Hawaii for two weeks, so I thought it would be appropriate to have him return to a fake lighted palm tree and poinsetta leis in his office.  The leis eventually migrated from the doorway to the tree. 

The Non Smiler

There are always so many new personalities to adjust to at every workplace. Especially when there is a merger (and by merger I mean a sale of one company to another). It takes a while to sort out who is reacting out of fear, who is truly generous and kindhearted, who feels information is power (and witholding information makes them feel powerful), and who is shy. And then there are the other people. The ones who even after months of working on the same floor in the same building you still have no idea what to think of them. I've never seen so many in one place before. I feel like I missed the cloning room or something. One particular feature of these mystery people is their quietness. Meek only goes so far. Ignoring will not make reality different. And the unsmiling not talking about anything other than work....yeah, it's just flat out annoying and rude eventually. Soon I will be forced to give up and just label them 'they who can't accept reality and don't play well with others'. Not that that will change anything. I'm just sayin'.....because it's my blog and I can.