ITT: Give Me An Excuse for Missing Today's All Hands Meeting

[lizard]

Today we are instructed to report to the auditorium for the All Hands Meeting which will focus on the kickoff of the Combined Federal Campaign fundraising period.

While I am in favor of giving to charity, every year they show us a depressing film, which run something like along the following lines:

a) a kid loses his leg to cancer and ends up running a marathon because CFC furnished him with rehab and Kraft Mac n' Jac.

b) (we saw this one two years in a row) a black kid is abandoned by his parents in Rahway (sp) NJ and he lives in a boxcar and grows up to become a NASA rocket scientist because CFC put up the cash for him to go to MIT and eat copious amts of Kraft Mac n' Jac.

I think I'll hide in the server room.

 

[xfer]

what's mac n jac?

 

[lizard]

Macaroni and Cheese! were you raised in france?

 

[mindspell]

You have a yeast infection.

 

[xfer]

uhh how does it differ from "mac and cheese" and what's "jac"?

 

[mindspell]

Monterey Jack I am guessing.

 

[xfer]

oh, yeah...the spelling threw me (jac). i've never had mac 'n' cheese made with Monterey Jack, though.

 

[lizard]

*I'm hiding in the server room*

 

[mindspell]

Me neither, it could be could though.

 

[xfer]

agreed, although i'm really in love with smoked mozzarella in m&c.

 

[mindspell]

Caciocavallo mac and cheese rocks too.

 

[avi]

I'd hide in the server room, too.

Luckily I almost always have actual work to do when we have all-staff meetings so I haven't been to one in over a year. And if I didn't, I'd just insist that I need to stay at my desk in case a last minute event came in.

 

[lizard]

I thought that visually, Kerry was poised and collected, not surprising given his long experience at this sort of thing. Bush looked like a five year old who was told to sit quietly in a chair when there's a plate of cookies across the room. he fidgeted, and generally came across as really nervous. A couple times he actually froze in mid sentence.

Avi: I actually came across a valid excuse if confronted; we have some visitors from our offices in Europe, Asia and the Middle East coming in and I had to put together a welcome graphic for our electronic bulletin board.

 

[chupe666]

cut off your hands, DUH

 

[mousewings]

Hide in the server room. Or say you have psychological problems and depressing films make you feel suicidal.

Reminds me of when I used to hide in the hallways, bathrooms, forest, etc. when time came for school prep rally meetings. I have too many things to do to listen to that crap. Also, my short attention span acts up during these and I become homicidal. That's my excuse.

 

[lizard]

the server room is my favorite place because its kept at a nice crisp 65 degrees and only the IT people know the combo to the cypher lock.