LA, CA Can Good Things Happen at Work? Of Course! - Part 2

They should of gave you a PS3.

I hear they have boxes and boxes of them just laying around.

 

I don't have it yet so I'm keeping it ES.

 

S'all good, homie.

 

Greedy bastard.

 

Today I got a big platter of cookies from one of my favorite contractors. They are tasty.

 

I want cookies from my contractor!

 

Your contractors bribe you with cookies?

 

I don't know about the city, but at LAUSD this gift would be OK as long as it doesn't, "have the appearance of impropriety."

Ethics Class --- Darth Tater!

 

We are allowed to receive any gift up to $25 in value. Because I shared the cookies with my co-workers the shared cost is much less. Additionally, I am not in a position to grant priviledges to people or make policy so the gift could not be a bribe.

I actually resent the notion that anyone would believe I need an ethics lesson. Thanks for making a lovely gift shared among co-workers a dirty one.

 

I still love you, DH! Of course I'd love you even more if I had some of those cookies, but...

 

Today was our combined divisional holiday party. It was cold, the food was okay at best, but most of the company was good. I sat with people I like and who like me and I won the centerpiece which I left behind because I really did not want it. I gave it to a guy I don't like much but who wanted one. My table and the table next to mine (Mr. DH's) had fun laughing, talking, and playing jokes on each other. It was kind of okay and a kind of good thing to have happen at work.

Cookies are gone. My co-workers all enjoyed them. My division engineer asked who had sent it and I told him. He's the one who taught me to share these gifts so they would be above board. He is in a position to be influenced. Actually, Mr. DH received a similar platter of cookies and did as I did because he is also in a position to influence decisions.

 

Thank you for clearly stating how your ethical guidelines were followed! I for one, like to tread like a lawyer among my friends, don't you agree, DH?

 

It is the safest way to go. Anything bad at the City ends up in the Times so keeping everything clear and proper is the best practice.

 

I rang up Jason Mewes today. JAy from Silent Bob for those who aren't sure who he might be.
Great guy. His girlfriend got him tofu eggless salad and he didn't want it and he put his own item back on the shelf. We have Persian Princesses that come in and file there nails while telling us how to bag their ish so it's always great to see someone who doesn't act like there poop doesn't stink.

 

Yesterday, my boss took us out to lunch in appreciation for our good work this past year. Yeah! Today I may go to another Christmas lunch. I'm not sure yet.

 

Our holiday party was last week. Our Assistant Superintendent, two Directors, two more administrators sat with secretaries and office assistants instead of sticking with management types like most other offices I've worked for.

It was the best company holiday party I've been to in years. I actually enjoyed myself.

 

Today our Christmas Committee brought bagels, a variety of cream cheeses, and fruit to celebrate the season and to spend the rest of the fundraising money. Yeah! I also went to a Christmas luncheon for one of my old offices. I had a great time catching up with some old friends, talking football, traveling, and all sorts of stuff. It was a billion times more fun than my own division's lunch.

 

Today at the weekly design team meeting one of the guys brought dim sum. Yeah!

 

free cider

 

hard or supermarket style?

 

it's in a coffee pot upstairs. All week. So it's different every day. Sometimes too much cinnamon. Sometimes no cloves. Yesterday no sugar. And there's usually cookies there also.

 

Yummmm! Are you coming to the holiday party? I hear DB's making mohitos.

 

Two pounds of See's candy, several great products from the Bath and Body shop, a bracelet and a necklace from Hawaii, a sheet of the SW stamps, a pound of specially roasted coffee and a Starbucks gift card. Plus, numerous plates of homemade goodies!

That's what I've received so far from students and staff at work today and it's only Thursday. Tomorrow there will be a lot more. The generosity of the staff and students is incredible! I'm very blessed!

 

I received so far a birthday cake and balloon, a bottle of some lemon flavored liquor, and a box of the best cookies I've ever eaten.

 

I got an iTunes giftcard from one of my bosses and a giftcard to Banana Republic from another. I was really suprised because I wasn't expecting anything. This is my first Christmas as a full-time worker bee and I didn't know I was going to get anything from people at work. I feel kinda bad since I didn't do anything for anyone! Next year I will bake cookies or something, to give back a little.