The cat's out of the bag

I mentioned before about KIA’s repetitive wardrobe, and how Meanie, Skank, and I are tallying the frequency at which she wears said shirts and jeans. Well, people have taken notice of Meanie’s tally board and asking questions about it.

The board's KEY: RED mark= red shirt day, BLUE= white shirt day, GREEN=blue shirt BLACK lines= jeans day, and black line not in the middle are days where KIA was off. The tallies are as of Wednesday this week, and we started tallying 2/23. Oh- and Hello Rob, we all love you

First up…Coworker J. CwJ cracks me up. She has a very dry sense of humor, and can be very blunt… Example of the humor: Tourettes was talking about this database she uses to find history on some stuff we work on. So we are at my desk, Tourettes is “teaching”, CwJ and CwG are standing behind me as Tourette’s is telling me what to do. She kept calling the database, “the master base”. She repeated master base a million times, now I’m still fairly new and didn’t want my perverted side to come out, so I was trying to control my school boy humor and not bust out in maniacal giggles. After a few more “master bases”, Tourettes said “why does that sound wrong?” CwJ chimes in, very calmly and flat, “It sounds like you are saying masturbate, Tourettes.” To which, I thoroughly lose it…and I’m in tears laughing at my desk. I still call master database the master base, the best base of all.

Anyways… Last week, CwJ asks Meanie what’s going on with the board, somewhat loudly. Meanie, tries on the D-L to tell CwJ that she can’t tell her (KIA works close to Meanie). CwJ is a smart one and knows something’s up. I walk past Meanie and she tells me that CwJ is questioning the tallies, and it’s my job to tell her what we are doing. So I waltz into CwJ’s cube and tell her the shirt trend, and that we couldn’t really believe how often KIA was wearing them, so we started to keep track. CwJ says “are you keeping track of the jeans too???” I laugh and say “you mean the jeans she wore 3 days this week?? Why yes we are!” So we go to the board and I share the color coating methods and what not.

Meanie also happens to have magnetic clips that match our tally colors- so now Skank, Meanie and I also bet what shirt will be worn the next day. If we have 1 winner, then that person wins money we have in a Easter Egg (just a buck fifty, but it’s still fun).

This is also explained to CwJ. She laughs. She also made a nasty comment about if KIA wears the shirt and jeans so much- how frequently is she wearing her undergarments???

**insert vomit here**

The next day CwJ and I get to work at the same time and she made a comment about how she really had to think about what she was going to wear and she really felt like wearing jeans, but it’s only Thursday. Very funny…

Well, later that Thursday, SuperJ walks up to Meanie and asks her what going on with the board… She is directed to talk to me. So SuperJ and I take a little walk, and I explain. SuperJ, ever the observer, asks about the magnetic clips and the egg on the wall by the tally board. I tell her about the betting and the pot. She’s laughing. SuperJ says “the non-manager in me finds it very funny…however the manager in me thinks it’s bad”. I ask bad because of the frequent wear or bad because we are tracking and betting? She gives me a look- it’s bad because we are tracking and betting. But she’s still laughing. I say to her, of all the “bad” things we could be doing at work, this is harmless.

Now everyone is up on the game- CwJ and SuperJ check the tally board if they haven’t seen KIA, or tell us what to mark it if we haven’t yet.

It’s fun little hijinx that make work more tolerable.

And in case you are wondering- today is a blue shirt day (green mark) and plain jean- not the fancy ones she seems to think are work place appropriate for Monday-Thursday wear.

Rock out, in the same outfits