Yes, a holiday CUBE! But not just a cube, a “2000 Collector’s Edition” cube. It came from our Ad/PR Agency and its a…well, it’s a cube. It was created by a project involving getting kids involved in art and supports homeless people apparently.
I’m all for encouraging art and poetry–especially in young children, and I certainly welcome and support programs to help the homeless. What I don’t get is the purpose of the cube–aside from promoting the organization who created it. I mean, it is a cube.
Let me specify: it is a cardboard cube covered in gloss reproduction of kids artwork and a poem about a homeless man that’s not even glued together well–one of the edges doesn’t line up exactly and is coming away from the cube. It sounds like there’s paper or something inside (presumably for weight?), but there’s no way to open it so I’m guessing its meant to be…a paperweight? I already have a crystal globe paperweight with our parent company’s logo (it doesn’t have any papers under it)…let’s face it, who uses paperweights all that much; and if you actually do, how many do you need?
I’m not ungrateful. Just puzzled by what seems like an odd gift to give clients (and we’re a huge, lucrative, 5-figures-a-month-type client) at the holiday.
Finally, even though they know my boss left the company 3 weeks ago and that I’m the only person in the PR department who is now as their contact for PR, they addressed the cube to him. Oh, and I think about a half-dozen other people in the office got a cube as well. (Maybe we could build something?)
Guess I just wonder…if its the thought that counts, what was their thought they wished to convey?
Jeez, I thought you’d somehow managed to decorate one of those new G4 Macs in red and green.
…or you were just happy you got were allowed to put up decorations in your box-shaped office environment.
Anyway, I’ve seen some ad agency self-promotion mailings that were pretty inscrutable. Just put it on your desk next to your pencil holder. Sounds like it’s most likely just frou-frou anyway.
Since they get kids involved in art, could it be a Child-Made Object? Perhaps they forgot that the only people who are obliged to pretend to like these things and to cherish them forever are the children’s relatives.
Well, these were definitely mass-produced and not by the kids. One side includes the ad agency’s name with “|2000” following it. As I said, I don’t mind the artistic element if they want to support the group. Some children’s art is actual good or at least interesting. I’m just surprised that its not somehow–um–useful. I could see if it were filled with note paper you could use or a calendar on one side or something…
BTW, the back of the card that accompanied it says, “The art for our 2000 Holiday Cube was created by…” which almost makes it sound like an regular deal (like they send a different holiday cube every year. The bottom of the card even has a drawn cube with the company’s inition and the words “2000 Collector’s Edition.”
And I would totally dig a MAC 'puter in red and green for Christmas!!
[hijack]
I know she’s probably been expecting me to do this all day, so I’ll get it over with.
Homer(reading Mr. Burns’ phone messages: “You have 10 minutes to move your car . . . You have five minutes to move your car . . . Your car has been crushed into a cube . . . You have 10 minutes to move your cube . . .” phone rings “Mr. Burns’ office.” Mr. Burns: “Is it about my cube?”