Festivus for the Restivus
For the past three years in my department at work, we've put up a big, fake Christmas tree and decorated it with ornaments and lights. It's quite a job and takes hours to do. At a recent meeting we were discussing who exactly was going to be involved with putting up the tree and when. Nobody was that enthusiastic so I suggested we put up a Festivus pole, just as in the Costanza household in the Seinfeldverse. There's not much work involved; no branches to organize and arrange, no electricity or baubles to deal with, we just needed to get an aluminum pole. Our department director put it to a vote: a.) Bah humbug, we do nothing. b.) Christmas tree. c.) Festivus. Much to my surprize, Festivus won.One of the guys had an aluminum pole. I made a collection
box for the Human Fund and drew up some signs. Bang, we were done. Reaction around the office has been mixed. As people from other departments pass our display they either chuckle or look at the pole suspiciously. A couple of people asked us when we were going to put the branches on our tree pole. I wouldn't be surprized if HR came by and asked us to take it down. Whatever. The Airing of Grievances and Feats of Strength will happen later today.update: So far, we've collected 32 cents, some candy and a couple of guitar picks in our Human Fund box.
update: Much to our joy, someone put in a check for $100,000 made out to the Human Fund. Turned out to be fake, though. Darn.
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