How to look a complete idiot

first in a countless series...

christmas time

every december, like many workplaces, we get all "silly" and christmassy. the first year i was in the job my fellow minions and i decorated the department in the traditional tack-fest of tinsel, baubles and flashing lights (very judea, 0 AD). the powers that be decided that lights in combination with flammable gaudiness were a health and safety risk; so they were banned.

the following year; lights and bauble-less, i had a moment of inspiration from my post x-mas party polluted mind. i (and a similarly incapacitated colleague) spent an entire working day making paper snowmen and decorated a innocent bystanding ficus plant. in a moment of injustice, our 'tree' won a prize for charity for "best decorations based on a company value" (don't ask).

when decorating company property became a security and safety issue the paper based fun was ended... yet the charity prizes for decorations remained...

what to do? the only things left that we could legally decorate were ourselves.

so cue me getting an entire department to dress up as polyester christmas trees

(here's me; i decided not to include the group shot - far too cruel)

... we won again!

next time on "how to look like a complete idiot" --- skiing