\nA friend of mine emailed me this last week. It’s a memo
\nfrom his company’s CFO, regarding their upcoming holiday party.
\n(Emphasis mine).\n<\/p>\n
\n\nThis luncheon probably seems like a major
\nextravagance relative to the state of the economy and
\nall of our cost containment programs. Many of you are
\nprobably thinking that if you don’t go to this
\nluncheon you can save us some money. I appreciate the
\nsentiment, but, I need to give you a little background
\non this event. We booked the Hotel *** early in
\nthis year for our Holiday Dinner\/Dance on the evening
\nof December ***. The process of booking required a
\ndeposit. As the economy started to erode and we
\nstarted to slow our spending, we attempted to cancel
\nthe Holiday Dinner\/Dance. Unfortunately, everyone
\nelse in the Valley is trying to do the same thing. We
\nwere able to cancel the evening party, but the Hotel
\nrefused to refund the deposit. They also refused to
\nconvert the deposit into rooms for our next sales
\nevent or consider any other creative solution. Renee
\nand Caroline looked at the size of the deposit and cut
\na deal with the Hotel where we can have a nice Holiday
\nLuncheon for just our San Jose employees and use the
\ndeposit as payment. Based on the circumstances, I
\nview it as your corporate and patriotic duty to attend
\nthis luncheon and eat everything you possibly can eat.<\/B>
\nI plan to starve myself for a day or so and then
\nstart with the most expensive foods. I won’t fill up
\non starches. I won’t drink any water. I plan to wear
\nloose fitting clothes. In order to get maximum bang
\nfor our deposit, we need you to show up and EAT. I
\nbelieve that this is a buffet, so, as long as we
\ncontinue to eat, I would think that they have to keep
\nbringing out food. Caroline will publish the menu in
\na follow up email, so you can start to plan your
\neating strategy before you get there. Thanks.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\nHistorians take note: if this isn’t a perfect snapshot of this place
\nand time, I don’t know what is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“…I view it as your corporate and patriotic duty to attend this luncheon and eat everything you possibly can eat. “<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}