Freak out and then find something exactly where it's supposed to be.
My favorite example of me doing this was when I was working at Waldenbooks. We had closed the store, gone to the back room and gotten our coats and bags, and were all walking back through the store to leave. I was scrabbling through my purse, trying desperately to find my keys, and told my manager that I might have to return to the back room to find them, when I realized that while I was rooting through the purse with the right hand, I had the keys already in my left hand. Boy, did I feel like an idiot!
Speaking of gifting, I don't know what's appropriate for our apartment building manager in LA. In NY, it was pretty clear what we should tip the super. But here? Do people tip the resident manager?
Oh yeah! I'm assuming that since I haven't seen or spoken to building management since a maintenance guy gave me my mail key (a week after I moved in!), I don't have to tip anyone. SWEET.
A potluck email went out to 52 team members this Monday. When I checked the signup sheet yesterday fewer than 20 people had signed up, including one person who said they hadn't decided what to bring yet. Epic fail.
I am one of those failures, I have no shame in saying. But I don't even know any of the people who have signed up. Who needs new people anyway?
Who needs new people anyway?
If those people are good cooks or good bakers? Then there is a use for them.
Do people tip the resident manager?
Damn, I hope not. Because I never have, and wouldn't know where to start.
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If those people are good cooks or good bakers? Then there is a use for them.
That is a good point. But I'm still coasting on the plantain tarts my sister brought me, and the random brownies that pop up here and there, so I haven't been feeling the craving. And, dammit, I'm a good baker. Just lazy. Maybe this weekend...I wonder if I can get free trade chocolate at Whole Foods. Probably, right?
Speaking of gifting, I don't know what's appropriate for our apartment building manager in LA. In NY, it was pretty clear what we should tip the super. But here? Do people tip the resident manager?
I had the same question. I feel like people don't do that here in SF, but I actually have a pretty great super and want to give him at least something. I was thinking $50.
Listening to a streaming radio station that plays Muppets Christmas music.
"On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me ONE DELICIOUS COOOOKIE."
"On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me ONE DELICIOUS COOOOKIE."
"What kind of jive present is that, man?"
Someone wrote in to one of the advice columnists about gifting at work. She was young, in her first job, and living paycheck to paycheck. In her office they routinely collected $75 from each person for a gift for the boss and then, for a "Holiday Party" went out to a very expensive restaurant, at each individual's expense.
She couldn't afford it and the columnist advised her to just say no.
