Squeat?

[ornoth]

What’s worse than there being only one food source—a cafeteria—within walking distance of your office?

Realizing that today is “Seafood Jubilee” and that you can’t get anything that isn’t seafood unless you find someone to drive you somewhere.

What’s worse than that? Having your only coworker at this client site take his car and go home before lunch because his computer died.

What’s worse than that? Calling three different coworkers at your home office a mile away, requesting that they include you in their lunch plans. Then waiting until 45 minutes past noon for them to pull their heads out of their asses and make a plan.

What’s worse than that? Being told that after waiting so long, your coworkers were in fact unable to pull their heads out of their asses; they decided that they aren’t going to pick you up at all, and that they’re just going to eat lunch at one of the many lovely and diverse eateries within their office park, and to hell with you.

What’s worse than that? Spending five bucks for a tiny iceberg salad from the cafeteria.

What’s worse than that? Receiving an email announcing free sandwiches in the cafeteria… at 1:30pm. Just in time, if you’d decided to wait an hour and half past noon to get your lunch.

What’s worse than that? They’re catered sandwiches that the visiting clients wouldn’t even eat when they were fresh, 24 hours earlier. You remember, the very ones you saw sitting out on a counter all afternoon yesterday.

What’s worse than that? It’s only Wednesday, folks… Let’s do this again tomorrow! And the next day!

At least if I ate the sandwiches I could call in sick…

Comments

[awfief.livejournal.com]

*HUGS*

[slinkr.livejournal.com]

Sounds like a rough day. What kind of cafeteria gets away with serving nothing but seafood?

[rhillai.livejournal.com]

If I was close, I'd say give me a ring. Since I'm not close ... By the time I got there, lunch would be way over.

But for the good news ... Looks like work is sending me to the Boston area Oct 14th-18th. It isn't set in stone and I don't know what the work schedule will be like, but if you want to get together when I'm there, that'd be cool.

Mark

[time-strider-9.livejournal.com]

Back when I was at Caesar's Palace, the employee dining room served freshly-made hamburgers and sandwiches, as well as daily specials like chicken, ribs, lamb, and pasta. I gained one whole pants size during that time!

Buy hey, looks like this is the year for mini-reunions, eh?

[ornoth.livejournal.com]

Definitely. Keep me posted. My only consideration is that's right after my mom has hip replacement surgery, so I may or may not be in town. But keep me informed, and we'll figure it out.