Tell your boss to bring in his kid to pass the sheet around. :D

Signed - an Old School GS. :p

All this talk about GS cookies has made me hungry for some but all I have are Milanos. When is GS cookie time anyway?

Who uses wrapping paper? I admire you if you do! All I use is gift bags. I have rolls and rolls of wrapping paper (including rolls of paper I've bought from school kids of course) that I never use. We bought probably 30 magazines when Plus1's daughter did that for her fundraiser (did send some to my parents). It was overwhelming.

She would probably love to come in. The past 2 years she has written a Thank You note to the office for buying cookies. ^

Jan maybe? I can tell you next week :)

Now THAT is great. ^ :)

That's good at least. Something.

WOOHOO! Looking forward to 7777

hehe, if you get a gift from me its probably a gift card and you would be lucky to even get a card with it. This drives my wife crazy but its a waste of money buying all that crap to go with it. I'd rather get a $25 gift card with out all the BS than a $20 gift card with a Hallmark card and all the BS.

Don't get me going on how they're allowing text speak in written essays. I won't even do it in a text message.

Let me know what flights you're on when you start doing that. :D

My mom was the mimeograph lady.:D

The coworker involved in that incident is a friend on Facebook. Some time back we were sending each other messages on there about the days we worked in that job, and the grouchy chain smoking administrative assistant who ran that office. And, of course, the can of mimeograph fluid that was knocked off the counter was brought up.

The lady we worked for was a trip. She spent much of her day on smoke breaks and usually sounded like she was about to die from a combination of lung cancer and emphysema. Amazingly, she had neither, despite her decades-long multi-pack/day habit. She was also a real grouch, with signs taped to the outside window of her office, which was just inside the front door of the building and opened into the main lobby, saying things like "We don't do staples, tape, or paperclips. The management." Another advised students of the locations of the nearest courtesy phones, which weren't in her office (very few had cell phones, and those that did had bag phones with expensive per minute charges). And then there was the classic "Your lack of planning is not my emergency." She kept the blinds in the office drawn all the time so she didn't have to see anyone walking through the lobby, or on the sidewalk just outside, and also in hopes that passers by wouldn't stop in her office. On the other hand, if you stayed on her good side, and she grew to trust you, which took about 3 months of very reliable work in her office, she would soften up and be your adopted grandmother, as long as you didn't do anything to annoy her. The average tenure of her student workers was generally around 5-10 days. Somehow I managed a full academic year.

Interestingly, this woman's claim to fame was she was a stenographer for the Warren Commission. She transcribed tons of the testimony related to the Kennedy assassination and had known, and worked with, just about everyone involved with that event, including the Johnsons, Jackie Kennedy, the Connallys, Jack Ruby, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Earl Warren, and many others.

Last I heard about this lady she was still alive, retired, and still smoking like a chimney on a cold night. And probably still grouchy and difficult as Hell.

The administrative waste comes in different forms, from principals and administrators having iPhones so they can monitor school statistics (yes, this is happening) to everyone and their mother in the admin buildings having a secretary. I was even asked if I needed a secretary... I'm still trying to figure out what a secretary would have done for me had I said "yes" to that question.

Cuts at the administration level are hard because they are so vital to the school district. However, they should be very focused on staying within budget and using that budget to further education, not invest in new technologies that in the long run will cost tons of dollars.

We ask the school how much they would actually receive from this kind of thing and then simply donate that amount. Thankfully the only thing the school does this with is a coupon book for kid-friendly places. We bought it once and it sat in the car, unused.

We pretty much always wrap gifts in the brown wrapping paper (with string) or use bags.

;) ^