So a coworker of mine turned in his 2 weeks notice today (he’s moving on to bigger and better things, lucky guy). A group of us got to talking about what we’re going to do for his last day celebration, and I (somewhat jokingly) said that I’d take care of getting a pinata of soon-to-be-former-coworker’s likeness for the assembled masses to take turns destroying. Naturally, I offered the first whack to the guest of honor.
Long story short, about 2/3 of the group thought it was a hilarious idea, including the soon-to-be-former-coworker. One woman, however, was somewhat less then thrilled with the concept. I believe she said something about it being “rude, disturbing, gross and mean.”
Nevertheless, I still think it’s an awesome idea, although I’m not sure I’ll be able to locate a suitable pinata in time.
So what does the Dope think? Would you be offended at the idea of hitting a pinata verson of yourself?
One day I would like a very realistic prop of my own severed head. I’d have no problem hitting a Johnny pinata. (Sorry, I don’t know how to make the tilde-n on the Mac.)
I wouldn’t have a problem with it if it was presented in a kind of funny, jokey way and, since your co-worker said he thought it would be funny, it probably wouldn’t be a problem in this instance (unless some higher-up was concerned it might cause a liability problem down the line).
If you hadn’t already run it by the co-worker first, though, I would say to scrap the plan. I can seem how it could be misconstrued as dislike or even a genuine threat to do something like this. I mean, if you walked into your going-away party and everyone was there whacking at a big face that looked like yours, you might interpret that as them not liking you or even wishing you harm. It seems inappropriate for this kind of party, but maybe okay for a birthday roast kind of thing.
I’m not supersticious, but harming any likeness of myself would give me the willies. It would be like poking pins in a voodoo doll of myself.
I went to a bachelor party where someone had made a cake that looked just like a pair of breasts. Noone could bring themselves to cut it, so it went uneaten. Same kind of thing, I think.
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I’d be honored too, actually. I don’t think anyone who isn’t superstitious or who doesn’t take themselves too seriously would mind. But I’d be screaming to anyone else joining in on my fun, “Not the face, goddammit. I wanna save the face!”
