Top o' da mornin'! Everyone is Irish today

Yep that's right, today is the day we celebrate the death of the patron Saint of Ireland. Saint Patrick's day. Which legend says he drove the snakes from the country.  Everywhere you go there is green and Guiness is the drink of the day.  It would be nice to have one right now.  But being that mother nature has decided to visit me this week.  I wasn't up to going out.  Besides, its a Wednesday.  I still gotta work tomorrow.

Speaking of work, we all had a ton of fun today.  You seen, I work for a credit union.  No, not a bank.  A credit Union.  There is a difference.  A bank has customers, a credit union has members.  Banks are for profit, credit unions are not. Anyhow, I digress, we had fun.  I work in a collections department.  Right now during this economy, this is not the funnest place to be since it seems everyone is has lost their job, mortgage has flipped, etc.  So my co-workers have a tough job.  Mostly trying to get water from a stone.  So every chance we get we try to do things to have fun.  Almost always, these fun days include food.  Then we had competitions throughout the day.  Being that I am not a collector, but an analyst. I wasn't involved in most of the competition.  However, there was one they did which was hilarious!!!

Now, the collectors has to collect X amount of dollars to have the COO and the CFO eat a concoction mixed up by the supervisors.  So these executives ate a combination of pistatio pudding and some sort of vegatable.  The looks on their faces were priceless.  The real fun was if the collectors surpassed another X amount of dollars then one of the Senior VPs would have to eat as well.  

This lady is one smart cookie.  She turned the tables on her peers.  They all thought that they would get to see her eat some icky mash up.  The door opens and she comes in with this neon green wig, a magic light up wand & a small pail (her pot of gold). 
So what no one knew was that her pot was full of $5 bills. She said to the collection crew, she would pay everyone in the department $5 if she didn't have to eat the mash.  Well, you know the old adage,

"Money talks, bullshit walks."

Everyone took the money.  The other Sr. staff's dropped when she did that because THEY ate the icky food.  

It was really fun.  I have to say, we have the most fun in the whole credit union.  They may have strict dress codes & rules.  But we can also let our hair down once in a while.  We do it oh so well.

Peace out all!