The Workplace

I watched Office Space a couple of weeks ago. I watched it with family who work in offices and they sat round commenting on how their work was just like that.
How depressing. I sat watching it thinking, 'my workplace is NOTHING like this'.

At my workplace we never have a dreary version of Happy Birthday round a cake that we share with people we don't like.
Today is my bosses 60th birthday. I spent last night filling her office with balloons, butterflies, fairy lights and banners. There is confetti EVERYWHERE and this afternoon we're having a massive party where I hear there will be a giant jelly cat. It will be fun.
So I don't work in an office, and do in fact work in a school, but nonetheless, it's always nice to hold a proper celebration for birthdays.
I wore fairy wings on my 30th at work. And last year our secretary had a Bear Grylls themed 40th birthday and her office was a jungle. We played Bearngo (bingo with Bear theme) and all day she found random plastic insects in her printer, drawers and anywhere we had hidden them. I got her a Survival Kit which I'm sure she finds useful on a daily basis and I hand made all her jungle themed party bags too.

So it's later on the 21st now. We had an English Country Garden themed tea party. There were cucumber sandwiches with no crusts, bunting, crisps and sausage rolls and jelly. We listened to 'Bananas in Pyjamas' and other such classics. We played pass the parcel, the Queen of Sheba and other silly games. It was a lot of fun.

I don't think things would be any different if there were no children in my workplace, we'd still do all this. Well, maybe not the games but we'd certainly still have themed rooms and a lot of genuine fuss made of birthday girl or boy!
Everyone I work with is great and throw themselves into the fun.

Today is a happy blog about why I love my job, love my workplace and love my colleagues. A day for gratitude.