Monday, January 03, 2005

Gift Card

So I get back to work today after a week long holiday and I find an envelope on my desk from my boss's boss's boss. Basically he's the Department head. Anyway, I open it up and low and behold I find a card in it, though not completely closed.

Great! How thoughtful! A christmas card with a little sumthin sumthin inside. Woot, go me!

Ahem.

Now, I am glad to be acknowledged but this is the interesting part. Inside I find a gift card to a mall. Not THE mall, but a mall. It is a little accordian green packet that has about 20 panels of legalise (both sides) on how to redeem, what you can redeem for, who can redeem, what can you redeem when the participating mall (herein "mall") says you can redeem on which merchandise (herein "product or service") it feels like discounting with said gift card (herein "card"). Gah!

Anyway, for my $15 I have to spend 30 minutes of work time to read it (which I didn't actually do, who reads those things anwyays?). Needless to say my time is valuable, supposedly, so it would be defeating the purpose of actually reading it than to actually just use it.

Did I mention that it was lime green colored paper?

Anyway, thanks for the gift card boss boss boss.

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