Employee Appreciation Week!

This week is Employee Appreciation Week, and it is so fun! You are probably thinking, "Why are you blogging about this you dork!?!" Well, rude person, since I am in charge of the catering around here, I am assisiting our HR Manager in all the planning, ordering, and execution. So there!

Monday we had Breakfast Burritos and Crossianwiches...Yum-O! There was also fresh fruit and Naked OJ, so it was a great way to start the day (and the week). The best part of the morning came earlier, and no one else even knows about it! Let me fill you in...so I get in at 7 like every morning, and I start my routine, making sure all my confernece rooms are perfect. At about 7:45 I decide to call the caterer, the guy who runs the cafe in our building, just to touch base and make sure our order will be ready by 8:30. So, he answers the phone, and I say, "Hey Andy...just checking on breakfast!" He says, "You ordered breakfast? What time?" Cue Heather's jaw DROPPING! I stutter, "Ummm...the breakfast for 85 people that we have spoken about many times and that you contracted that you would have ready at 8:30 today!" He says, "That's today?" I kid you not. I wanted to die. Here it is my first Appreciation week and this is happening? He starts mumbling excuses interspersed with a few "Aye Caramba!" exclamations. Then he gets off the phone to get started. I sit there for a second, frozen. Just then an email goes out to the whole firm... "Reminder...breakfast at 9am in Spyglass Conference Room!" I'm thinking..."I hope so!" I try to stay calm, keeping myself busy until I can go down there and start bringing up whatever he had so far. At 8:35 I am about to head down there when my boss comes up to my office to check on breakfast. I told her the situation and I thought she was going to faint! We hurried down there...I tried to keep things calm and positive. When we got there he had almost half of them done, so that was great. I already had the room set up beautifully, so we just put out what we had and people started filing in and getting breakfast. No one even knew there was anything wrong. When someone would ask what was better, the burrito or crossianwich, I would say, "Well it looks like the crossianwiches are going faster!" because they weren't all done yet. :) We got them all by 9:30 and everyone was happy and well fed. Phew!

Tuesday we had Jamba Juice Smoothies. That was a nice 3pm pick-me-up, and I got to meet and chat with a lot of employees, which was nice. It's hard to get to know 200 employees! Everyone here is really nice.

Wednesday, today, is Gift Day. I got a nice little gift card to Fashion Island. They delivered Geoff's to me too, so I was hoping he might just give it to me. No go. So of course I had to prank him by taking the gift card out and putting in a little post-it saying, "Sucker!" He still wouldn't give it to me after that. :)

Thursday is the big lunch (BBQ) and Friday we get to wear jeans! Woo hoo! Hopefully there is no drama before the lunch and everything goes smoothly. I'm bummed because I just found out they had BBQ last year as well. Ooops...well, I wasn't here, nobody told me, and hey...it's been a year! :)

I love working for such a great firm...we have a great time!