Today is Administrative Professionals' Day. Being a Marketing Assistant, I fall into this category. It's basically a way of taking note of the people who do all the dirty work and have to know everything.
Today I get a thank you card from my department and a card for 10 free coffees. I appreciate this. I'm appreciative of the card most of all. However, what floors me is that when I'm given all this, in a very enthusiastic tone my boss says to me, "And to thank all of you, we brought in SANDWICHES!"
Uh, sandwiches? Who the fuck buys someone a sandwich as a thank you? I mean, if I were Joey on Friends, I would apparently appreciate it. However, I am not, and Friends is FICTION! No one takes a fucking sandwich as this great, personal, touching gesture of thanks. I'm not going to meet my friends tonight and tell them how it was so sweet that my department took me out to lunch for a thank you, instead I will tell them how my company bought me a fucking sandwich to thank me for all my hard work.
Glad to know that this week I am denied a promotion, given a raise that still leaves me broke, and given a sandwich to thank me for Administrative Professionals Day.
And to top if all off, they know I am completely freaked out by sandwiches. I think they are trying to make me quit. At the very least, this is proof that they hate me.
There is something very wrong with this picture.
