Work Party

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Work Party

My Division at work won award for increasing profits and efficiency the most of any division in 2009. There was a cash reward for that which we used for 2 things. 

1. To replace a our old dead massage chair. 
2. To have a pizza party. 
I was happy we were going to replace the massage chair. I previously had spent a good amount of time trying to replace some of the parts for the old one, only to run into a stone wall of Japanese Corporate stupidity. Panasonic/National the company that made the old massage chair would not send me 4 belts to fix the chair, instead the insisted on sending a technician at the cost of $300.00 just to walk in the door.  

We got the massage chair and I did not read the email about the pizza party till the day of the party when I realized it would be held in the office. I was happy with that, I do not smoke so going some place you can smoke was not a big deal to me, actually it was a plus. Also I noted that most parties we have, everyone kinda migles within their own work group, and food is served too us.  This time was allot diffrent. With out servers people had to get up and get thier own food and mingle a bit with others. I think that worked out well.
At the end of the night there was still about 5-10 of us going strong telling jokes and playing drinking games. One of the developers streamed the event live from his webcam. All around it was the most fun I've had at work in a long long time. The night ended for me around 10 when the wife called wondering where I was? I am not surprised I did not even realize it was so late. I left and stopped along the way home for another beer and a awesome cheese stake sub at 2 Papas in Kichijoji.