Umbrella corporation
Oct. 8th, 2004 10:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
murakoziI didn't go to the company picnic this year. Partly because I work at the stables on Sundays. Partly because I can think of better ways to spend part of a weekend, and partly because I forgot about it and didn't rsvp.
They give out a 'gift' to employee there. Last year it was a little fleece-type blanket, suitable for throwing over your legs at a stadium or while in a chair. Not a bad thing at all. People who don't go to the picnic don't lose out. Someone comes around a week or two later and passes out that year's little gift to anyone who wasn't there. I was sitting in my office talking to Programmer Guy, when they came around. Neither of us had been there, so we got this year's picnic gift: an umbrella.
That's not a bad thing to get. Heck, they're practical, and these are full size, not collapsible ones, so two folks can fit under them and stuff. They have an interesting feature though. Most umbrellas come with a sleeve to stick 'em in when not in use, presumably to keep them looking neat or something. Most folks, like me, promptly lose the sleeve. These umbrellas have a sort of telescoping hard plastic sleeve though. Before you open it, you collapse it up to the tip of the umbrella. When you close it, you slide the cover back down.
Apparently a number of folks in my group also didn't go to the picnic, because now there's a bunch of us, sitting there, sliding that stupid sleeve up and down. It's like a really crappy cheap Transformer or something. People just can't stop playing with it, including me. Programmer Guy's comment: Heck, the cover thing is neater than the actual umbrella.
And to further prove my loser geek wannabe status, upon sliding the cover up on mine, I almost immediately thought about how one could put some sort of LED under it, so you had a tapered translucent cylinder that lights up atop your open umbrella. I guess that'd be good for those outdoor raves in the rain or something.
They give out a 'gift' to employee there. Last year it was a little fleece-type blanket, suitable for throwing over your legs at a stadium or while in a chair. Not a bad thing at all. People who don't go to the picnic don't lose out. Someone comes around a week or two later and passes out that year's little gift to anyone who wasn't there. I was sitting in my office talking to Programmer Guy, when they came around. Neither of us had been there, so we got this year's picnic gift: an umbrella.
That's not a bad thing to get. Heck, they're practical, and these are full size, not collapsible ones, so two folks can fit under them and stuff. They have an interesting feature though. Most umbrellas come with a sleeve to stick 'em in when not in use, presumably to keep them looking neat or something. Most folks, like me, promptly lose the sleeve. These umbrellas have a sort of telescoping hard plastic sleeve though. Before you open it, you collapse it up to the tip of the umbrella. When you close it, you slide the cover back down.
Apparently a number of folks in my group also didn't go to the picnic, because now there's a bunch of us, sitting there, sliding that stupid sleeve up and down. It's like a really crappy cheap Transformer or something. People just can't stop playing with it, including me. Programmer Guy's comment: Heck, the cover thing is neater than the actual umbrella.
And to further prove my loser geek wannabe status, upon sliding the cover up on mine, I almost immediately thought about how one could put some sort of LED under it, so you had a tapered translucent cylinder that lights up atop your open umbrella. I guess that'd be good for those outdoor raves in the rain or something.
