December 16, 2004
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Another long but fun day. Today at work they had some sort of holiday
raffle, they were giving away all sorts of shit…………well, it
really wasn’t shit. Things like a caupaccino maker, DVD player, George
Forman Grill, along with many many other things. In total, it was about
40 people that won, and I was not one of them.I had a talking to today by my supervisor……….I really wasn’t in
any sort of serious trouble, but it was more like a “be careful” type
of thing. Long story short, I had to call a co-worker about a call and
while I was talking to her, I said something along the lines of “yeah,
this guy is ready to cry, he is being such a baby”. Well, it turns out
that call was monitored, and as my supervisor told me, things like that
have contributed to us losing lawsuits, so I have to watch what I say.
I agreed with her, I should not have said something like that, I was
just goofin’ around and she said she knew that and found it funny, but
I still shouldn’t do it.Today was our work Christmas party at Bobak’s. I arrived and there
still was not a lot of people there yet. Before being allowed to go up
to the buffet, they served us soup. It was good, but it had a green,
leafy taste to it. Anywho, right after the soup, we did our grab bag.
They had a unique way of doing the grab bag. Everybody stood in a
circle and held onto a gift. One lady read “The Night Before Christmas”
and everytime she said the word “and” we took our gifts and passed to
the right. We must have passed about 20 times. Anywho, I wound up
getting a $20 gift card for Blockbuster, which was cool because it was
only a $20 grab bag, which leads me to believe that somebody got it as
a gift and didn’t want it, or there is less than $20 on the card. Of
course, there is a chance that somebody bought it specifically for the
grab bag.Anywho, after the grab bag, we ate. It was a fairly long line for the
buffett, but there were 70 of us, and that wasn’t including other
customers. The food was outstanding, as usual, but it was not as good
as the Bobak’s in Burr Ridge, although they had a really hot bus boy at
the one in Naperville…………he had a great smile!I had to cut out of there about a half hour early and head over the
Willow Seminar thing. I pulled up just as Danel and Sharon were pulling
up, and I parked right next to them. I got out of the car, and the
person next to me got out of her car, and as it turns out, it was Judi.
It was great to see her. We walked into the hotel and went to the large
room the seminar was taking place at. It was like an AAA reunion! The
room was filled with tons of familar faces, it was great. Even though I
have been at the new job for about 6 weeks, it just doesn’t seem like,
for lack of a better term, home. It doesn’t feel right. But, being in
this room tonight, felt right, even though there were some people there
that I did not care to see, there were a lot I wanted to see. I got
caught up with a few of them before the seminar started.Danel, myself, and her friend Edward (who did not work at AAA) sat in
the first row. I don’t know why Danel choose the first
row…………..she and I both knew we were going to fool around
during this thing. I know it was rude, but we keep whispering shit to
each other the whole time. Shit, I really wasn’t too interested in the
program, but I was really there just to see everybody. Danel and I kept
writing notes to each other. For example, the lady was talking about
how much things cost, and she said something like “autoraztion pass,
$16″ and I wrote on my paper “fucking over AAA, priceless.” One time,
the lady mentioned how a lot of call center jobs are being out-sourced
to India, and I popped in and said “or Nebraska” which got a good laugh
out of everybody (for those of you that don’t know, our jobs were
outsourced to Nebraska). Danel and I were just being goofy. I had a
wrapper from a mint and we kept throwing it at each other. I would
throw it in her purse, she would throw it back. I put it in her coat
pocket, she gave it back. I put it on her head, she gave it back.
Finally, she got out her lotion and threatened me “I swear to God, I
will spray you with this.” She held it next to me like it was a gun and
she was doing a hold up. Classic. I kept doing it and she put some
lotion on her fingers and rubbed it on my hand and arm. After a while,
I rolled up the packet of paper they gave us and put it at my crotch
and pretended to jerk off. We did all of this as the lady was talking.
I know, how nice and mature of us. But, shit, we bring out the teenager
in each other. Oh, how I miss working with her. We used to do shit like
this in meetings all the time.Afterwards, some of us went to The Colonial. Danel and I sat there
jawing back and forth at each other. We were making filty comments to
each other, just being vulgur and inappropriate. I don’t normally talk
like this with anybody else, but there is something about her and I
that makes us go back and forth. Its a great chemistry that we have,
but obviously, we can never be together.
