Did you know that National Employee Appreciation Day is always the first Friday in March? Well this year my employer celebrated! First, let me just say that I am shocked that I was allowed to proceed with this project, but so glad that we were able to do a little something.
To complete this project I searched all over for 600 candy bars. Yes, you read that correctly: 600. We have 300 employees and each got 2 bars. We clearly are not promoting employee health…but alas I think everyone enjoyed their goodies when all was said and done.
I didn’t find all the bars in one trip, so I sent a few other people out to hunt them down for me. Thank goodness we were able to find enough!
Then the grueling task of putting together 300 goody bags. I may or may not be exaggerating on it being grueling. Perhaps time consuming is a better word. Although I had plenty of offers for help, I put them all together myself over the course of several days. It took a tad bit longer than I thought it would.
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Tags/Cards printed, cut, and hold punched. Phew! |
I made 300 business card sized cards and then assembled each bag and tied it off with a green ribbon. Given that the State/TAMU is going through such a huge budget cut (28 million with talks of up to 60 million, but don’t quote me on that) it should come as no surprise that times and money are tight. A green ribbon along (the color of $) with a “100 Grand” and “Payday” are my attempt to poke fun at the situation while also showing how much we appreciate each employee.
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"You are worth more than 100 Grand to us. We appreciate all you do for the Hospital and want you to have a"Pay Day"" |
So what do 600 candy bars look like?:
It’s surprising how quickly managers run to pick up candy as opposed to boring paperwork. All-in-all it was a fun little project and I’m so glad we celebrated this year. And I learned that a Pay Day has about 7 grams of protein. Maybe I was promoting employee health after all. ;)