Recently we decorated the office for Christmas. There is a beautiful tree downstairs, wreathes on all of our outside doors and second story deck and a garland draped with lights around our upstairs railing looking down into the lobby.
The tree trimming afternoon is always a festive one for our office. Work customarily ceases on that day at around 3pm and cookie baking starts in the kitchen while muscled song pluggers troop upstairs to our attic to haul down the boxes of lights, ornaments, garlands, bows and wreaths. Somebody starts Christmas music in an office and we all fall into our decorating niches. My job has generally fallen to the task of hanging the upstairs garland and draping the lights with my office friend T-lou. We seem to forget each year how in the world we managed to unwind the greenery from the box and find a way to extend it in graceful, even loops from one side of the upstairs to the other… and then there are the lights…. But somehow it all seems to end up looking nice anyway.
On cold days we frequently have our fireplace turned on and the outside wreath-hangers rush back in to warm their hands and look at the tree ornaments. Office tradition holds that any new employee has to make their own ornament to contribute to the tree. That’s MAKE your own ornament. Then there is a presentation ceremony where the person is forced,... I mean, requested... to explain their ornament design.
I really admire the way our head of office manages to run a highly successful & motivated office and yet always encourages a sense of fun. That is someone who is a pleasure to work for!
The tree trimming afternoon is always a festive one for our office. Work customarily ceases on that day at around 3pm and cookie baking starts in the kitchen while muscled song pluggers troop upstairs to our attic to haul down the boxes of lights, ornaments, garlands, bows and wreaths. Somebody starts Christmas music in an office and we all fall into our decorating niches. My job has generally fallen to the task of hanging the upstairs garland and draping the lights with my office friend T-lou. We seem to forget each year how in the world we managed to unwind the greenery from the box and find a way to extend it in graceful, even loops from one side of the upstairs to the other… and then there are the lights…. But somehow it all seems to end up looking nice anyway.
On cold days we frequently have our fireplace turned on and the outside wreath-hangers rush back in to warm their hands and look at the tree ornaments. Office tradition holds that any new employee has to make their own ornament to contribute to the tree. That’s MAKE your own ornament. Then there is a presentation ceremony where the person is forced,... I mean, requested... to explain their ornament design.
I really admire the way our head of office manages to run a highly successful & motivated office and yet always encourages a sense of fun. That is someone who is a pleasure to work for!
Auntie J.
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