My office, in its infinite wisdom, gave me the
200 office Christmas cards to get out at 5:00
p.m. Tuesday December 19th. I am suppose to type
the envelopes, stuff, seal and stamp them all.
WHEN? I have computer classes today and tomorrow
morning. Am I suppose to be delivering them too?
Of course, nobody has given me their lists of
names and addresses either.
And they wonder why I hate Christmas.
The title of this thread made me laugh. My office pulls that stuff all the time. My boss is also fond of giving me mailing lists with many incomplete names and addresses, and is then annoyed because it takes all day to make the necessary corrections and get the stuff mailed.
Just throw the cards away. Business christmas cards are never acknowledged so no one in your office will ever know. The recipients don’t really care if they get them.
But don’t manually type those envelopes. Do them in the computer and print them. Then save the file for next year.
My husband’s boss has enlisted his help in getting out a corporate Christmas letter, which he wants in the mail by Friday morning (it only goes to local customers.) There will be 1400 of them.
He (the boss) hasn’t finished the letter. Or ordered the paper or envelopes. Or given my husband the list of people to make labels for.
Good freakin’ luck.
According to the Cranky Holiday Calendar, anything before December 20th is “Early.” Anything right up to Christmas is “On Time.” Anything thru New Year’s Day is “A Little Late.” After that, we’re in “pathetic” territory, and you should change your cards to be Equinox cards or Valentine’s Day cards or something.
Of course, this is for personal cards. For an office card? I’d say it’s pretty nitwitty to have them handed to you–sans complete address file–this week.
Some friends of ours got a card all printed up, just like corporate cards are. Printed greeting, printed personalization (“From Ward, June, & The Beav”), printed return address. They even printed our address from a computer file. They never signed it or anything–it doesn’t look like human hands touched either the card or the envelope. I’d expect that from a company–but was a little perplexed that personal friends would go that route. LOL
Which sort of explains the user name, I guess?
My old company only sent out about 100, but I got to address them by hand in calligraphy! No problem, I love doing calligraphy, but it makes me tired to do that many at once.
Thanks to everyone who sympathized with me. Somehow, I
did most of them yesterday afternoon, after computer
class. I typed all the envelopes, and two of my boss’s
nieces did the stuffing, stamping and sealing.
obfusicist, this place is not going to buy labels
when they have the master typist here. They were
even too cheap to have the return address engraved
on the envelopes. I did it all on the IBM Selectric II.
Next year, I’m ordering the cards in June!
As I type this, it is 11:30am (CST) on Thursday, December 21. I am also addressing my personal Christmas cards. They will go out this afternoon (after a LONG wait at the post office, I’m sure!) and arrive sometime before Arbor Day.
To me, the only thing that matters is that I sent them, not if they got there on time. I’ve never done anything on time. I gave birth two weeks late for crying out loud!
If any Dopers out there are feeling like schlubs because you’re not quite done with the Christmas crap yet, sit back, relax, and feel superior to me.
That’s what I’m here for 
This will be the second year that I’ve sent out New Year’s cards to my friends. With the mad rush to get family and school stuff taken care of at this time of year, I can either send cards with just a name scribbled in them and get them there by Christmas, or I can spend the week after Christmas writing personal notes that really have a little thought behind them.
A real procrastinator knows you can add a couple of weeks to your schedule just by converting to the Orthodox church.