this aggression will not stand! / by Katherine Hajer

Tomorrow is my birthday, but I took it as a vacation day.

It's departmental tradition that people get their cubicle decorated on their birthday. Yesterday my co-workers gave me a cool see-through balloon (above), and a purple orchid I'm keeping at work so it gets some sun, and we had cake:

And I thought that was a very nice way to celebrate a co-worker's birthday, and was grateful they remembered.

Then today, the two people who are covering my work while I'm on vacation next week insisted we have a meeting to finish the knowledge transfer right before lunch. 

It's okay, I said. You know I'm going to send you a detailed e-mail with all the info. Don't I always? And we can meet in the afternoon. It's all cool. I just want to get something done so the person I'm sending it to isn't waiting on me.

Nyuh uh, they said. This time works best for us.

So I went to a meeting room and showed them what state all my documentation for all of my CRs was in, and when I came back to my desk it looked like this:

I got yarn bombed. With acrylic.

And sure it's all lovely and fun and colourful and birthday-ish, but it's a bombing.

And you know what that means.

Yarny retaliation is on the way.

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