{"id":1804,"date":"2007-11-30T17:40:12","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T22:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/slappy-anniversary\/"},"modified":"2007-11-30T17:40:12","modified_gmt":"2007-11-30T22:40:12","slug":"slappy-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/slappy-anniversary","title":{"rendered":"Slappy Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

In December 1997, I experienced my first Christmas party with my new company. The party started around noon at Mt. Fuji<\/a>, a great Japanese restaurant up on a big hill over in NY state.<\/p>\n

Noticing the amount of alcohol my coworkers and their partners were consuming, I turned to my girlfriend around 4:30pm and said, “You wanna get out? I’m a little afraid to be on the road when these guys leave.”<\/p>\n

I later found out the party continued on past midnight, at two more bars and then someone’s home. Of course, I was too upstanding a citizen to have fun like that. Go figure.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that party also was the occasion to celebrate the 20-year work-anniversary of three of my coworkers: Matt, Sharon & Cyndi. At the time, I didn’t really think about how uncommon it is to stick with a single company for 20 years.<\/p>\n

Today, we celebrated Matt & Sharon’s 30-year mark at the company (Cyndi retired two years ago, and seems much happier for it).<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

I think Sharon’s deliberately smiling goofily; it was too early in the afternoon for that expression. And, yes, Matt was<\/em> drinking in the workplace, but it was only Coors Light, so that doesn’t count.<\/p>\n

Congrats\/condolences!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In December 1997, I experienced my first Christmas party with my new company. The party started around noon at Mt. Fuji, a great Japanese restaurant up on a big hill over in NY state. Noticing the amount of alcohol my coworkers and their partners were consuming, I turned to my girlfriend around 4:30pm and said, … <\/p>\n

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