Excuse me miss, you forgot your pants!

Let me be honest. I am not a fan of leggings. Or jeggings. Or whatever else they're called.

And I am definitely not a fan of those who wear them work. Leggings with a long sweater or tunic paired with either heels or flats don't really seem like a work appropriate outfit, but maybe that's just me.

So my blovers (get it...blog lovers... I know I'm hilarious!) are leggings acceptable as a substitution for pants? Should they be acceptable as work wear in a business causal office?

And if the answer is yes, how old is too old?

So obviously this isn't just some random thought, today at work I witness not 1, but 2, older women dressed in leggings. One was even wearing Uggs with them (They were brown, the leggings black, and let's not even get me started on that!!) From looking at them, knowing they're both married and have children, I would assume they are late 30's. Maybe early 40's. I almost feel like they rocked them in the 80's and saw that leggings are having a "come back" and decided this was the greatest thing ever. I wonder if they think they look cool.

I decided to turn to google and search , just how old is too old for leggings. The results may shock you. "Answer: You’re never too old to wear leggings, but you do want to modify how you wear them. "

However, after doing more research, I did find that a lot of people agree with me with thinking that leggings are not pants! So next time you're getting ready for work, put the leggings down and walk away. Your receptionist will thank you :)

The Fax

First of all, who even faxes anymore?!?!

Ok, that being said...
I sit next to a fax machine that usually doesn't get any information faxes. Every now and then, in between all the spam, I do get a random fax that seems important. I check to see it's for, and will either call that person, or let Bill swing by desk and have him hand deliver it to the recipient. Now, Bill has been out of the office for a couple days, so this one fax has just been sitting on my desk. Normally I would just call the person, but this is for a person who doesn't work in this office, and I *think* Bill just forwards it along with mail that we send to our other offices. I think, I really have no idea what he does with it.

So, this fax has been sitting on my desk. In the corner, not really in my way so I tend to forget about it. However, we do a daily lunch order form, and the fax is sort of near the order sheet.

You would not believe how many people have come to my desk, to either order lunch or ask me a question, that have picked up the fax, obviously see it's not for them and continue to read it!! What?!? Who does that??

So, naturally I sit there and STARE at them, because not only are they reading a fax that isn't theirs, they're reading something that is on MY desk! What if that was my fax, what if it was something personal! They always seem so startled too when they look up and just see me looking at them. Yes, you're doing something wrong, and yes, I caught you. Put down the fax and walk away! haha!

What weirdos! Only I get to read everyone else's faxes ;-)

I may be getting fired...

So, today I had Bill covering my lunch break. When I came back, I sat in the extra chair at my desk and just chatted with him for a while. We started talking about Halloween and he asked if I was dressing up, or going to any parties. On his phone he started showing me pics of his costume - Mario, as in Super Mario, and I decided that I was going to show him my costume on the back up computer that we have at reception. Now, I'm not going as anything skanky, in fact it's a funny costume. I can't tell you what it is, because it's a surprise and it's going to be a kick ass costume . So I type it in and put the word adult in front of it because I didn't want a kid size costume.

Yup, you know where this is going...

So the first link shows up, says the name of the costume so naturally I click on it. All of a sudden a thousand pop ups come up, and as I start clicking the "x" I start to realize something bad is happening. I cancel out of all the pop ups and the web page loads...

Covering the web page is...

NAKED woman, and millions of them!! LOL

Bill and I freak, well, I scream and can't close the web page fast enough. Bill sat their laughing. As soon as I got everything closed, Bill and I just start laughing out of control. I was between just absolutely mortified and finding it just so funny! I then start freaking out that that this happened on a work computer and how IT could track my history. Bill starts to reassure me that IT wouldn't just check the history, they only would if they had a reason to. Plus, the website didn't look like a porn site name, otherwise I never never would have clicked on it! Phew. I think I'm in the clear.

A couple minutes later, after Bill leaves my desk, he calls me and is just laughing. I look over at the computer and a virus warning has popped up. Great. Just great. So naturally I click to "X" out of it and get back to work. And then, as my luck has it, Jim appears and needs use the back up computer to print a security badge. Why we have this hooked up to this computer and not in his office is besides me. So anyways, he sits down and the virus ad pops up. He says he'll call IT and have them out to fix it and that's when I literally start to sweat bullets.

IT seems to appear within minutes (of course, they never respond fast except for now!!). So Matt comes out, and as I'm literally trying to think of excuses as to why there could be porn on my computer, he explains to me that this is nothing bad. It's a form of spy-ware, that says you have a virus, when you really don't. It does that in hopes that you'll click it and then infect your computer. Hmm... wonder where THAT came from ;)

He ran the virus protection, told me what to do when the scan stopped and went on his way. Turns out, 11 items were infected, and I cleaned it up and it seems ok.

Lesson learned, won't be searching anything with the word "adult" in front of it!!

Oh, and now Bill thinks I'm being a porn star for Halloween and has invited to me a party, lol!

Pink Pins Update!

I just have to share something cool. My office raised $1210 in a week for Breast Cancer Awareness! That's $200 more than we raised last year!

Not bad, annoying co-workers, not bad. :)

The Pink Pins

So this week we are doing a fundraiser for Breast Cancer Awareness month. Donate $5, you can wear jeans for a day, or donate $10 and you can wear jeans for the whole entire week! Wearing jeans is a suchhhh a great way to get people to donate, because who doesn't love wearing jeans to work?! And all week? done and done!! There have been a few great people who have opted to donated more "just because", which I think is awesome. The President of the company (who happens to be a woman) donated $100, and has yet to wear jeans all week. I like this woman.

Now let's talk about the ones I don't, because let's face it, that's what this blog is really all about! :) There are 4 different people in the office that are collecting donations. I am one of them, natch. I've always helped out to collect since it makes sense since I'm in the main area and sees the most amount of people. Of course, this is when the lobby becomes a huge cluster of people. And not to mention, rude people. I literally have people who come up to my desk and throw their money at me. I have people who will stand there just holding their $10, without saying what they want. I have people who tell me they want a pin before I could get them one in exchange for donating.

Who are these people!? You're doing a nice gesture, and in exchange for that you get to be rewarded for wearing jeans for an entire week! Hold your horses and be nice to me! No one is forcing you to donate. You could be a real jerk and wear jeans when you didn't donate and no one would know! How am I to know if you're donating, ordering lunch, or just there to ask me a question!? Please just say something, don't just stand there expecting me to know what you want!

One day, someone will politely come up to my desk, and say "Hi Ruby, how are you? I would like to donate money for the Breast Cancer Awareness fundraiser." I would smile and reply "Ok! Let me get your pin. And how much do you want to donate?"

Sighhh.....

Yeah right, who are we kidding... I would never respond like that ;)

There's an issue in the bathroom

NMO. Aka New Managers Orientation. Aka one of the worst weeks at work.

During these weeks we have new managers from different sites come in and they get a 4 day "training" at the corporate office to learn about....???....managing people, I assume?? It's usually all women, and usually a TON of them. There's nothing more frightening when the gaggle of them boom into the building with all their luggage (cause, yup, they come right from the airport), yelling (not chatting, because they are just SOOO excited to be there!) and being totally lost of where they need to be or where the conference room. Oh, and where do they put their luggage? And do we have coffee? Where are the rest rooms, will we be serving a breakfast???

Welcome to my life.

So anyways, the day continues on. Until, the greatest thing ever happened. Bill told me the greatest story ever, which happened to involve a "NMO".

Bill was sitting at his desk, when an employee came looking for him since, naturally, our office manager was no where to be found. So, the employee, looking rather distraught, told Bill that there was an "issue" upstairs in the women's bathroom, and she needed his help immediately. So, Bill said he would call the property management company and would get someone out there to help out. The lady told Bill that this was a critical issue and it needed to be handled asap. So Bill, assuming it was a clogged toilet, or a leaking sink decided he would humor the lady and go upstairs to take a look.

What he found was way better.

There was a....

NMO....

STUCK IN A BATHROOM STALL!!!! Totally locked in, couldn't get the door to open at all!!!!!

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA! I personally would have FREAKED out! That, or climbed under the door and freed myself.

Can you even imagine being that lady? Or better yet, the lady who was next into the bathroom? Do you think she heard "excuse me??? can you help me, I'm STUCK in here!"

So poor Bill was unfortunately stuck to get this woman out. Having her crawl under the door wasn't an option as she wasn't small in size or real young. After trying to "kick down the door" and fiddle around with the lock, Bill ended up pretty much knocking the door off the hinges to free the poor visitor. Once the scared lady left the stall, Bill took it upon himself to take a look at the damage to determine how he was going to fix it. As he entered the stall, he realized this lady decided that in the all the time she was locked in there, flushing the toilet was not an option!!

EW! Who does that??? Why would you not flush?? Especially if you're trapped in there - people are going to see what you did, or...didn't do!!

Needless to say, Bill never fixed the door.