What’s with people who refer to vegetarians as “veggies”? I’m not a vegetable. I am meat, 100% Organic, Grade A meat. I eat lots of vegetables, but this doesn’t make me one. I don’t think the same person who called me a veggie would like it very much if I referred to them as a pig, cow, or chicken.
“Oh, you’re serving sausage at the company picnic?
“Yes, a handful of pigs work here.”
This whole issue with me comes up every time my office put together any type of social event. This week has been “Carnival Week” at work. We deserved to have carnival week because of the tremendous profit our company made in 2009. Nope, we didn’t get a raise. What are you crazy we’re in a recession!! …The multimillion dollar raises are reserved for the men and women who don’t actually know what our company does. We got Carnival Week.
I’ll spare you the details of the whole week, but I will tell you that today’s activities included: Wii Bowling, some duck pond thing, and email bingo. Stop me if you’re getting giddy with excitement over this. On the menu was everyone’s favorite carnival snack...hotdogs!
About 2 hours after the pig snouts and chicken feet were finished eating their hotdogs we got an email informing all of us that, “There are veggie dogs too!” I thought to myself, this may be the compassionate thing that the administrative staff here has ever done however, it doesn’t make up for all the obscenely inconsiderate actions of the past. I refused the veggie dog, however, and demanded $4.50 from the 2009 profit as I could easily eat that much worth of meat aternative products.
For the sake of color in the post, this is my favorite brand of veggie dog...
“Oh, you’re serving sausage at the company picnic?
“Yes, a handful of pigs work here.”
This whole issue with me comes up every time my office put together any type of social event. This week has been “Carnival Week” at work. We deserved to have carnival week because of the tremendous profit our company made in 2009. Nope, we didn’t get a raise. What are you crazy we’re in a recession!! …The multimillion dollar raises are reserved for the men and women who don’t actually know what our company does. We got Carnival Week.
I’ll spare you the details of the whole week, but I will tell you that today’s activities included: Wii Bowling, some duck pond thing, and email bingo. Stop me if you’re getting giddy with excitement over this. On the menu was everyone’s favorite carnival snack...hotdogs!
About 2 hours after the pig snouts and chicken feet were finished eating their hotdogs we got an email informing all of us that, “There are veggie dogs too!” I thought to myself, this may be the compassionate thing that the administrative staff here has ever done however, it doesn’t make up for all the obscenely inconsiderate actions of the past. I refused the veggie dog, however, and demanded $4.50 from the 2009 profit as I could easily eat that much worth of meat aternative products.
For the sake of color in the post, this is my favorite brand of veggie dog...
MMMmmmm im gonna go home and eat one. You VegGie!
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