It was a fairly average Friday afternoon at work, lunch was over and the afternoon was dragging when a message popped up in my inbox. It was invitation to go the conference room at 3:30 for Cookie Cake, the reason was just because it was Friday!The invite was sent by the executive assistant but when we got to the conferenece room she mentioned all she had done was send the invite, our boss, well the HR VP had decided we needed a little fun and picked us up a cookie cake at lunch!
The HR VP is one of only 3 males in HR and the only guy in our local
HR group. Poor guy, we're 4 high maintenance ladies and he always manages
to stay calm, even when a simple question leads to 15 minutes of "I'm so
stressed about my wedding, I just want to go on my honeymooon" which
totally never happened...just saying hypothetically...
So at 3:30 HR and various executives, accountants, client services people and what not gathered in the conference room and shared a huge cookie cake, just because! When ever anyone asked why we were having cake the answer was "for anything you feel like celebrating"!
It was a good day for cake. This is a rough time of the year up in our part of the building. Annual Enrollment is in full swing leaving HR feeling frazzled and the executives and controllers spend weeks in budget meetings for the next year. Throw in general "here come the holidays" stress and everyone starts to feel overwhelmed.
Anyway, I could say many, many, MANY things about my job and the company I work for but I genuinely work with best people ever and I was thankful for an unexpected few minutes to enjoy a very sweet cookie cake and some non work laughs, and maybe a few work laughs happened too! :)
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