Attitude is everything. It's next to impossible to find a great place to work with great people and a great boss. So I take what I can get. At this job I get lots of little surprises. It makes me listen really hard which means I mostly have to shut up to hear the good stuff. Like finding the zen garden someone left on top of the map filing cabinets. I rake the sand every time I am over in that part of the cube maze. Someone else is also raking it but I have never caught them at it. Sometimes I move the rocks or lay the temple on its side.
There's also a collection of magnetic words on the cabinets. I randomly collect some and put them in someone's cube on their shelf. Today I put 'happy green giggle nest' in a junior engineer's cube. He caught me once so he knows it's me, but sometimes he doesn't notice for a few days.
And then there's the holiday decorating. I decided my theme this year was poinsettias. So I found a couple pretty pictures and printed them off to put up below my name tag. It makes me smile. And that makes people nervous.
