Maybe I'm a lil bit grumpy because of all the stuff going on at once, and wanting to rail at the idiot who stacked the work schedule so much. But the folks in the development office are organizing Valentines Day stuff for the theater. So it starts off kinda cute last week with:
On Friday, February 12th, have your Valentine "mailbox" outside of your cube, office or work table and come prepared to share valentines with your co-workers. Please feel free to be creative, extremely cheap, funny and/or thoughtful.
Our department plans to provide some sweets to share at the coffee station that day, as well.
There's no excuse not to participate, everyone - at minimum, you have trash can liners for a mailbox and post-it notes for valentines at your desk!
But then today it became:
One more thing: because I know EVERYONE will participate, plan to have valentines for about 40 people that day.
And suddenly it feels like first grade where you have to make a valentine for everyone, including the folks you want to choke the living shit out of.
I dunno. Maybe it's because I'm one of the few single folk with the company, and forced valentines seems rather against the spirit of giving them. Maybe it's just me feeling stressed. Either way, it's making me think twice about participating.