Ho ho ho

Myself, Michelle and Gino decided to spread some Christmas spirit, and put up some Christmas decorations up in our cubicle. We planned this last week, and yesterday Michelle went and bought some lights and some shiny red balls that we wanted to hang above on the ceiling. So this morning we started putting everything up - it looked really pretty and all, but the first comment out of pretty much everyones mouth was "save some for us" or "where's our decoration". That was to me quite surprising - we had just casually planned some nice stuff in where we work, and suddenly it turned into a "oh, so we're not in your club, not good enough" competition. It was pretty soon sorted out but it left a strange aftertaste - was I so stupid that I didn't realise this would create some stupid us-them division... honestly I though no one else would even care when Michelle brought the idea up last week. But maybe because the decorations turned out to be so nice, everyone else became jealous. Oh well, we'll know better next year.

Christmas spirits were restored though at the latest in the evening when our manager came around and gave us all gift Visas (prepaid Visa cards) for our Christmas bonus. As a sum it's not of course that much, but as a gesture it was jolly nice.

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