Amelia: what are you doing? why are crying?
Jodi: *sob*
Amelia: Stop it! I find that noise unnerving. Combined with all the non-stop chatter that goes on here.
Jodi: *rolls her eyes* I just can’t win. It’s my serenpidity.
Amelia: Don’t you mean serendipity?
Jodi: No, I mean serenpidity. The occurrence and development of events by chance in a stupid or pitiful way.
Amelia: Did you make up that word?
Jodi: Evildeb did.
Amelia: And what are they doing in the cube next to you?
Jodi: sigh, getting ready to move someone in.
Amelia: Wasn’t this supposed to be the outer Mongolia of cube locations? Isn’t that why you picked it?
Jodi: CUBE RAGE!!
Amelia: Settle down, killer.
Speaking of rage, I think we experienced a near melt down here over the last couple of days, when they quit restocking diet soda pop in the cooler. The diet pepsi was the first to disappear, my drink of choice. I transitioned smoothly over to diet dr. pepper. Then the caffeine free diet coke went, and the CFDC people started drinking regular diet coke and things became a bit tense. But when that was gone, and all that was left was diet 7-up and diet dr pepper, people got mean. Louise said someone was snippy with her because she took two diet cokes out of the cooler at the other end of the building, leaving only one behind. I couldn’t blame them, she took two.
“I was really thirsty!”
S’ok, now. The appropriate beverages have been restocked. And everyone can just calm the freak down! Ok? People?
I can’t help giggling because the “CFDC people” makes it sound like the “Center for Disease Control” had descended upon your office and quarantined the diet coke.
That said, I understand your pain. I used to work at a rather large software company (the one with the $ in the name) and I recall the uproar every time they changed the drink selection. First was removing the talking rain and replacing it with a water cooler. Man the letters to the editor were furious. Then they eliminated the Diet Dr. Pepper. That was too far. There were protests, email campaigns, letters to the newsletter – the uproar was so great they actually brought DDP back.
Then of course there was the time that they removed the towels from the locker room – that’s a whole other story….
So, where the hell am I supposed to hang when i come and visit????
Huh. My Amelia was a little cranky this afternoon too 😉
revolt! revolt!
hey, where’s the root beer?
Nothing will raise a mutiny quicker than a shortage of rations! Be brave. I’ll be sending thoughts of peace and serenity your way. 😉
no worries, river, the root beer is fine. there was never a shortage of root beer. the 7-up, diet 7-up, ginger ale, coke, pepsi, dr pepper and diet dr pepper all fine. although the calistoga sparkling water was accidentally skipped in the last beverage order. so we are out of that as well. and they changed brands of bottled water, and I don’t like the looks of the label on the new at all.
also, all juice flavors remain stocked an available.
the only thing stocked in our coolers is water. 🙁
but we do have vending machines with five different soda selections. and only two are generic super warehouse brands! 🙂