I was just reminded of a mattress story!
My company had this email alias called Social for employees to post things like carpool requests or lost and found or whatever.
One day, a coworker sent an email trying to sell his USED mattress and I was like WTF this isn't Facebook Marketplace?!?
I’m kind of a brat and had a history of sending weird emails through Social, so I responded asking if he could deliver it to one of our conference rooms, stating that I use it as my nap room.
He was NOT amused and reported me to HR. He ALSO sent screenshots of some of the other emails I had sent to further complain about me being a "disruption to the company."
HR did the HR-y thing by simply responding to the thread with something like "Let's keep everything respectful, y'all. We want this to be a great place to work."
My coworkers immediately came to my defense and were like "Alice's emails make working here great!"
A couple of weeks later, we had our monthly awards and my coworkers banded together to vote for me for "Making the company a great place to work."
My award was a $1,000 gift card to use from a selection of our customers' companies. One of those companies was a mattress company, so of course I bought myself a mattress. A NEW mattress.
Alice McFlurry :bc: /
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2024-06-22 17:21:03
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