In every lunch room on every floor of our buildings is a cork board with things attached. They have the mandatory state and federal announcements on them about minimum wage and your rights. While they are probably the reason the board is there, it is all the other fun stuff that makes the board worth reading. Around the edges are the cards from friends and relatives of employees which are offering services. Some are the standard real estate and Mary Kay other are the pots and pans, knives and the occasional crafter who sells jams or sweaters. In the middle are houses and cars for sale, roommates needed and the coupons for local restaurants and fast food which give discounts. On top of all the others are the flyers for events, most of which happened months ago but no one has taken the down. I go into the lunch room to get coffee, and I drink a lot of coffee so while I wait for the cup to brew I have created a few games I play with items on the board. The first one is, find the oldest flyer. Read all the dates and figure out which one is the oldest, I will then keep an eye on it to see how long it will stay there. I could actually take them down, but what would the fun in that be? Second is to connect the card with the employee. Do they have the same last name as someone you know? Do they look like someone in the office? Many of the cards remain a mystery but some are a dead give away. The easiest are the ones that tell you to see someone in the office. I worked one place where a lady had an envelope taped to the outside of her cube for people to drop Mary Kay orders in. the last game is to rearrange the cards in some kind of order, phone number, address, all males or females. This one is a little more OCD but it does kill the time while I wait for the coffee to be done.
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