So... last night's dinner thing:
... attire did not matter. About half the people dressed up for Halloween since
it was a themed event. But nowhere on the invitation did it say "costumes highly
encouraged". Whoever did the event decorating did a VERY good job. There
were 24 tables with 10 seats at each table... plus the workers. DJ. Fog machines.
"Cauldrons" with dry ice on each table.
... full open bar.
... saw 2 e-cig users - inside. The rest of us smokers needed to step out... and
there were a LOT of us. Nice large open balcony, 9 floors up. Good weather,
thankfully.
... 10 people at "our" table, including Hus' supervisor and her daughter. They are
Turkish. Daughter (21?... she was drinking) had on the TIGHTEST knit minidress.
And I mean MINI. Tina Turner would not even dare it. NOT a "costume".
... of the 10 at the table, 6 had their faces buried in their phones the vast majority
of the time. Boors!!! Hus kept begging me to NOT say anything, so I sat there
and just stewed.
... they had "raffle" prizes (only for the celebrants). Nice stuff ranging from $200
cash... to a week off with pay... "1 car payment" and one " 1 mortgage payment".
Hus' number did not come up and we lingered until almost 21h45. I think there
were a couple more drawings happening, but we left.
And they do this thing every 3 months because of the number of people having
anniversaries OR having a "value-added award" bestowed OR getting a 98%+
client satisfaction rating.
