One of my eBay Peeps just sent me a note that made my week:
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Hi Jules,
I hope you guys are weathering the storms ok. Guess what we got at work today — The IT cookie cutter, because eBay LOVES the IT.
I overheard one of the analysts asking their lead if they had an “SH” cookie cutter too. The lead didn’t find that funny.
Seems that more than a few employees are tired of corporate’s never-ending enthrallment with ‘it’. It’s been one day and already the cookie cutters have hit the site.
IT Shit for sale:
- eBay IT Gingerbread Holiday Cookie Cutter
- Pink Fuzzy hanging IT dice
- 3 inch refrigerator magnet/bumper sticker
- EBAY “IT” KEYCHAIN
Infringed IT Shit for sale:
- Ebay 3 inch it , Laptop, Ipod 30, MP3 tv commercial
- Ebay 5 inch it , Fun tv commercial, office gift
- BLACK WALNUT it’s EBAY WOOD
Looking for IT Shit is fun. Especially because I see employees are still unloading my recognition items in the eBay-ana category.
I wonder if they’re getting ready to quit. People always seemed to sell their recognition stuff as some sort of revenge. I get that. What kills me is that they have no idea what a BITCH it was to get those gold pins made in the first place. That and the whole ‘contributing to a negative workplace by telling everyone you’re making $200 on a symbol of employee achievement’ thing.
Somewhere in my box of eBay goodies, I have an old faded blue lanyard with all three versions of those gold pins. I loved that lanyard – I got it at our first company meeting, wore it in Baltimore for Auction for America and throughout my six years at eBay. And if I’d had get rid of everything else – that was the one thing I wanted to keep.
Guess what got lost in the move. Damnit.
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