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Rep Retirement Lodge #184: The 2016 Frozen Four

Rep Retirement Lodge #184: The 2016 Frozen Four

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So, in honor of yesterday being 100 Days Out till the Olympics, plus the fact that we've decided to stop using Styrofoam cups in our cafeterias for free coffee as part of our sustainability program, we are providing all employees with a reusable plastic coffee cup. It looks like a Starbucks cup The goal was to have them all distributed by yesterday but given the immense number of offices and the lateness of us getting final artwork to the vendor, there has been a bit of a delay. That being said, the vendor is actually ahead of schedule, which is awesome. We sent out a notice to all the Office Operations Managers last week explaining what they will be getting and when, and to place on employee desks as of the 27th. I've been getting emails the past two days "I'm short x-amount!" and so on. For each office location number, I received a number of employees plus contractors and then I upped the amount by 5%. You're not short by that amount. The issue has been, for the most part, that some locations have more than one office code. One of the shipments may have been sent out one or two days later than the main one. The communication to the office managers said the distribution would be a rolling one and that all locations should receive by May 6th. Which no one has read.

Then, yesterday, while I'm in Times Square with very little access to email, I get notification that there is chatter on our internal social media platform about whether or not the cup is PBA free (which it is) and the code/number thing to determine if it's recyclable or whatever. Seriously people - it's a stupid free cup. If you're going to be all worried about that - don't use it. /end rant
 
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My company stopped provide the Styrofoam cups a few years ago for the break room coffee. They sent out an email that they would replace them with more eco-friendly paper cups that had little handles, and then decided not to provide those cups and made anyone who wanted coffee to supply their own mugs. The problem was that they never told anybody about that last change, so we had a lot of unhappy and tired employees in the office that day.
 
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Scarlet said:
So, in honor of yesterday being 100 Days Out till the Olympics, plus the fact that we've decided to stop using Styrofoam cups in our cafeterias for free coffee as part of our sustainability program, we are providing all employees with a reusable plastic coffee cup. It looks like a Starbucks cup The goal was to have them all distributed by yesterday but given the immense number of offices and the lateness of us getting final artwork to the vendor, there has been a bit of a delay. That being said, the vendor is actually ahead of schedule, which is awesome. We sent out a notice to all the Office Operations Managers last week explaining what they will be getting and when, and to place on employee desks as of the 27th. I've been getting emails the past two days "I'm short x-amount!" and so on. For each office location number, I received a number of employees plus contractors and then I upped the amount by 5%. You're not short by that amount. The issue has been, for the most part, that some locations have more than one office code. One of the shipments may have been sent out one or two days later than the main one. The communication to the office managers said the distribution would be a rolling one and that all locations should receive by May 6th. Which no one has read.

Then, yesterday, while I'm in Times Square with very little access to email, I get notification that there is chatter on our internal social media platform about whether or not the cup is PBA free (which it is) and the code/number thing to determine if it's recyclable or whatever. Seriously people - it's a stupid free cup. If you're going to be all worried about that - don't use it. /end rant
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Is it vegan friendly? :)
 
Greyeagle said:
Is it vegan friendly? :)
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Bite me.

:)

ETA: I will say, it's been good to see other people who are also included in this program reacting the same as me. I swear, one guy I talked to today I feel like I could hear his eyes rolling back when he was telling me about a call he had with one of the offices.
 
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One day left in the call center. One day. It will be the longest day in quite some time.
 
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My parents are here right now...they drove my car back (they had picked it up at the dealer) and are waiting here till my brother's flight comes in tonight(I'm going to pick him up). My mom made dinner, which was great because I'm exhausted. But now we're stuck watching Family Feud because they watch it every night at 7pm. They get so into it!! I can't even.....
 
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Scarlet said:
My parents are here right now...they drove my car back (they had picked it up at the dealer) and are waiting here till my brother's flight comes in tonight(I'm going to pick him up). My mom made dinner, which was great because I'm exhausted. But now we're stuck watching Family Feud because they watch it every night at 7pm. They get so into it!! I can't even.....
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Family Feud is great. I could totally hang with your parents!
 
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hockeyplayer1015 said:
Sun and 90ish down here in Florida...
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melmac said:
By the way... Thanks for the superb weather during F4. It was perfect.
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Agreed -- we had the best weather for the 10 days we were down there. It rained for 30 minutes when we were at Universal (we were in the Horror Make Up show) and it rained for a few minutes one of the days we were in Tampa, but we were occupied, so we missed it.
Scarlet said:
My parents are here right now...they drove my car back (they had picked it up at the dealer) and are waiting here till my brother's flight comes in tonight(I'm going to pick him up). My mom made dinner, which was great because I'm exhausted. But now we're stuck watching Family Feud because they watch it every night at 7pm. They get so into it!! I can't even.....
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Family Feud?! At least watch Jeopardy (it's on at 730...). Matt and I get pretty into it - we yell at the contestants when they answer foolishly.


Evening, Lodge. Finally at the end of this ridiculous stretch -- worked Fri, Sat, Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights. Stayed on night shift schedule Monday and Wednesday night. Very happy to have Fri-Sunday off.
 
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Scarlet said:
My parents are here right now...they drove my car back (they had picked it up at the dealer) and are waiting here till my brother's flight comes in tonight(I'm going to pick him up). My mom made dinner, which was great because I'm exhausted. But now we're stuck watching Family Feud because they watch it every night at 7pm. They get so into it!! I can't even.....
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My grandmother used to watch Jeopardy every night. If you called during that someone better be dying or else!

Good Evening Lodge!

Another day of gratefulness.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #184: The 2016 Frozen Four

Scarlet said:
My parents are here right now...they drove my car back (they had picked it up at the dealer) and are waiting here till my brother's flight comes in tonight(I'm going to pick him up). My mom made dinner, which was great because I'm exhausted. But now we're stuck watching Family Feud because they watch it every night at 7pm. They get so into it!! I can't even.....
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ETA: Dead link. Replace the stars with a five letter word for schlong.
 
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leswp1 said:
My grandmother used to watch Jeopardy every night. If you called during that someone better be dying or else!
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Mine too. And she had the same attitude. You also couldn't yell out the answers if you were watching with her. Matt and I started watching after she died (but we allow each other to yell out the answers).
 
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