I was at work yesterday (Feb. 14th, Valentines Day, Day of Tears and Lonely Misery, etc.). A couple minutes after I got there, one of the higher-ups was walking through the cubicle areas and handing out roses. To the women. From the boss.<\/p>\n
He had apparently gone home for the day, so only my coworkers heard me yelling, “Where’s my flower?! This is bullshit! I’m gonna talk to my lawyer and file a discrimination suit against the company because of this!” I might have been more convincing if I wasn’t still sitting in my cubicle in front of my computer, but dammit, I was pissed! Okay, maybe not, but they were really nice roses. Eighteen-inch stems, blooms the size of baseballs, variety of colors… really<\/i> nice.<\/p>\n
If I hadn’t been sharing a cube with a female who set hers in a Styrofoam cup of water where we could both look at it, I might have spent the rest of the day suffering from tears and lonely misery. Then again, those tears might have shorted out my computer, causing an electrical surge through the office, a giant explosion in the basement and a meltdown of the main server… Revenge is mine! HA HA HA HA HAAAAA!!!<\/b> (That’d show the boss that men need love, too.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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