{"id":172,"date":"2007-10-04T06:44:09","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T06:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2007-10-04T06:44:09","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T06:44:09","slug":"glittering-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"G(littering) Thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hubby works for a great company. It’s always on Fortune Magazine’s list of the “100 Best Companies to Work For”. His co-workers are intelligent; he really admires and respects his boss, his working conditions are tailored to his own personal expectations. It’s a Win-Win, really. They also give lots of “pats on the back”, in the way of little unexpected gifts and awards. Over the years that Hubby has been with The Firm, he has received: three separate $500 “you choose your prize” awards, which we used to purchase a VERY nice tent, a Majorica peal necklace (Hubby didn’t see anything he wanted in the catalog, so I helped him out!) and a $500 Amex gift card that we put toward the purchase of a home theatre system, also a very nice Dean & Deluca holiday gourmet food selection, three separate gift boxes from Omaha steaks (the last one being a selection of chicken breasts, hamburgers and hot dogs, with a note explaining that the firm’s 4th of July holiday was being extended to allow more fun, family time – presumably grilling), and many more similar things that I can’t remember. Hubby also has a TON of useful household and wardrobe items emblazoned with The Firm’s name (T-shirts, picnic bags, laptop cases, leather legal pad folios, pens, gimme caps, coffee mugs, coozies, USB drives, keychains, etc. etc. ad infinitum). It really is a great company and Hubby is very happy working for them.<\/p>\n

Are you sensing the “HOWEVER<\/em>” coming?!?<\/p>\n

This was the latest gift that Hubby received from the firm:<\/p>\n

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It’s a gift card (unspecified amount, but The Firm is usually very generous) to any of the Pappas Restaurants (may be regional, but there are lots in our area). Doesn’t it look festive? With all of that sparkly confetti? That glittery and very abundant<\/em> confetti that makes an unbelievable mess if you open your mail, say…in the car?<\/p>\n

I have, in the past, received party invitations that have had the same treatment. As I’m sweeping up the unexpected mess after unsuspectingly opening the envelope, I’m cursing the host’s name and trying to figure out how I’ll get even: “Oops – red wine on your carpet – gosh, that made a mess, didn’t it” I’m just kidding, of course, but please, with the holiday party season approaching: Folks, don’t be tempted to put little pumpkin-shaped confetti in your Halloween party invitations….just DON’T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hubby works for a great company. It’s always on Fortune Magazine’s list of the “100 Best Companies to Work For”. His co-workers are intelligent; he really admires and respects his boss, his working conditions are tailored to his own personal expectations. It’s a Win-Win, really. They also give lots of “pats on the back”, in … Continue reading “G(littering) Thanks”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.feedyourkids.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}