Our engineers like anchovies in amazing quantities.

[tugrik]

Feeling better after getting the workday properly wrangled into place, I nixed the stress-relieving rant from earlier. Life at work gets much easier to take when you drown out co-workers with bad techno through earphones.

However, not all was right in the world. Everybody on the engineering floor was wandering about grumbling at each other about being hungry, but nobody could get their act together and make an administrative decision on where to go. Unlike calicougar's office, we're not big enough to have parties to scavenge from. While the varied attempts to sway groups towards one restaurant or another ground on, I logged into the website of the local pizza place we've got an account with (a Papa John's) and had them send over four garbage-pizzas, half of them with anchovies, and a big ol' mess of garlic-sauce & breadsticks. They arrived with impeccable timing, right in the middle of the exec-staff coming over to get into the fray of where-to-go-for-lunch. I strolled in and doled out pizza boxes like a stack of Shut-Thy-Pie-Hole cupons.

Everybody had good food. Everybody stopped complaining. Work paid for the pizza by default. I got thanked by the annoyed-at-whiny-engineers e-staff... and dang is this garlic sauce good.

Friday's going much better now.

Comments

[gen.livejournal.com]

See, Tug. This is why I like you. You made a point of instead of sitting and grumping about a problem you took some effort and fixed it. Some peoblems can't be so easily rectified, but more often than not someone willing to give a little is all a problem needs.

[tugrik.livejournal.com]

*sneaks Gen a few garlic-breadsticks before they're all gone*

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Color me amused. ('gryn) Though I'm surprised your engineers don't just bring lunch or go off in small groups for food. Is it a kind of company tradition to all eat at the same place?

[tugrik.livejournal.com]

It's just a really baseless, overcast Friday. People are kind of confused and gruffly overall, which is kind of against the normal Friday vibe around here. Usually at end-of-week we're all pretty happy campers, and tend to do large group lunches for the fun of it.

hyuck, joke's on you

[tcreynolds]

We didn't get to scavenge. They ate it all themselves. :P

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

The garlic sauce is definitely some kind of drug.