Corporate Christmas Cards

Corporate Christmas Cards questions and answers

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Q: What message should I write in a corporate christmas card?
I have to hand write about 80, so I dont want it to be too long. What is appropriate?

A: Merry Christmas is not politically correct. CHRISTmas, hence the common usage of the phrase Xmas. Something like 'Wishing you a merry festive season' says it without crossing any boundaries.

Q: Is there a charity that wants old Christmas cards?
Corporate cards, extras never used. Do have the copany name engraved, but never on the front of the card.

A: I would check with places like daycares, schools, churches and nursing homes. All of these places most likely have craft projects using old cards.

Q: Is it descrimination to invite some employees to a corporate Christmas party and leave the rest out?
Rooms To Go invited all employees to there annual semi formal Christmas party sign ups were in the middle of October and then December 1st 2 weeks before they un invited all laborers only corporate office, managers, and sales people are allowed. Are these parties not supposed to be for showing appreciation for your hard work.I guess those who bust there humps every day are not appreciated, only those who push pencils. Every other year these are for every employee. This is wrong 90% of the people going already bought clothing. How can such a big company do this? There bribe is a 50.00 gift card for a restaurant. But then they are by them selves and not able to socialize with the people they are around every day but can not get to know well because they are busy working.

A: I would say that they had very, very bad manners, but not just that. Whoever the individual was that made that decision is extremely unintelligent. They are not good at the job THEY do, which is to keep up the morale of their employees. If you want to stay there, get a spokesperson to talk to the CEO in charge of labor relations or whatever the company calls it, and explain the magnitude of the mistake that was made. If this ever happens again, I'd say you should find another employer, one that appreciates the people who do the hard work.

Q: Is Christmas still fun, or just a commerical pain in the rump?
You know, deciding what to buy, spending all your hard-earned cash, running up credit card debts. It's no wonder Christmas shopping is starting earlier and earlier. It's just corporate greed that's making you turn into a consumer robot and an unhappy debtor.

A: I haven't celebrated Christmas in many years. I have also worked in merchandising and sales, and had to work with people celebrating Christmas in order to make my sales. I don't celebrate because the Bible says not to (Jer 2:10). If you go to wikipedia, it will tell you all the pagan traditions that are associated with Christmas. And yes. The entire world of merchandising is drooling, waiting for this season so they can sell, sell, sell. It's all about money for them. I can understand giving gifts to people you love. I even give gifts sometimes in December when the kids are out of school and need something to keep them occupied. Christmas to me is un-Christian, $$$, mass marketing and commericalism. Why should I participate in that? TX Mom

Q: Should I quit my job?
I just got a job at this greeting cards company. Previously I had been unemployed for months. So, i had been thinking of getting into freelancing since I am from Malaysia and because of the conversion rate, a job from someplace like US which pays very little isn't so little in Malaysian ringgit. So i start to post my profiles to some sites and i got an offer from a Singapore based company to do freelance for them at a fixed fee. Their offer is basically the same amount as half of what i could get for a permanent job... So, if I took the job I only need to get a few more jobs (one of two, assuming one job is at least $100 USD) to fill up my quota of how much I should try to make in one month. From what I've seen, I really like this Singapore company as they do the kind of things that i like. But, since I've never had a proper job as a designer before, i though it would be a great experience to work full time. The problem is, the job at the card company is just not challenging enough for me. It is downright boring. they do greeting cards for corporate companies... Which means, their cards are very traditional looking. if it is a christmas card, they'll have the tree and the snow and the presents... they won't have some crazy illustration like a clown dancing in the snow or something like that... basically I have only been there for less than a week and i am already regreting my decision to work there. it is just unbearable. there is no excitement that comes with when you get a really ingenius or creative idea because creativity is not required. but, I am also a bit reluctant to quit because this company is willing to give me a chance. But, at the same time, because my last job was to do this photo slideshow for a wedding, words have gotten out that I can do really nice video and there is a big chance that I could get a job from this other company to make more videos (This company organize lectures once a month and at the start of the lecture they ussually have a fifteen minutes video slideshow about the biodata of the speaker). One video job is enough for me to live another month. It just pays a lot. The last one was way more than what I make at this card company in a month. So, anyway... I should quit the job because: 1. no creative environment 2. long hours (they actually encourage you to do overtime as late as 10pm - normal working hours are 8:30am to 5pm) 3. unflexible hours 4. freelancing allow me to choose what I want to do 5. the Singapore job plus video jobs would be more than enough to make up my monthly quota 6. I have more time to do other things. 7. I have time to explore/develop my own design style 8. increase happiness 9. I don't think I can do both because after the overtime, i am too tired to even think. I should NOT quit the job bcos 1. Permanent pay 2. Job security 3. This company is a really nice company (The people here are really nice, even my boss - I have friends who have gotten a job at worst companies - I am so lucky) 4. Exposure to real working life 5. i haven't given myself enough chance for me to love the job (i have only been working for less than a week) 6. can't think of any other reason... so, please please please someone... give me a clue... should I quit my job or shouldn't I. i believe, if I had gotten this job before I started to get really into freelancing, I would probably would have been grateful for any job that I got. but, since i have other means to earning my pay, I really don't feel that I should stay and slave away day and night just because I don't want to hurt anybody's feeling. Please some one help me... guide me...

A: Only you can answer this question. Weigh the pros and cons. Look at yourself. Is tis what you want? If so go for it. Do not look back and try your best. Good luck.

Q: I need a joke or funny saying?
I work at a portrait studio for the Holiday season and we have to create a Christmas card to send to other studios and to the corporate office. We came up with (well i) doing a ginger bread house with everyone around in and poping their heads out of the side and putting the phrase "Bite Me" on it. Of course not meaning nething bad but it was funny. Well now they wana do the Gingerbread house still but the manager wont put that phrase on it so we need a cute funny (clean) saying to put on it. Any Ideas????????

A: How about "Have a sweet life"

Q: What one chore, errand or daily duty would you pay someone to do for you? What would it be worth to you?
I'm considering beginning a Personal Assistant/Corporate Concierge Service and am curious to hear what services others feel they would pay to have someone take over for them. I don't want to limit myself, however I'm thinking of: Personal shopping - christmas/birthday shopping Grocery shopping Banking Post office Mom's Taxi Services (to & frm after school functions if Mom & Dad are working) Party Planning The dreaded 4 hour delivery/service call window - will wait, while you work Appointment Setting - Dr., Salon, Dentist, Spa, Dog Grooming Dry cleaning pick up and drop off Holiday Cards If you feel there is anything I've missed that would be a help to you...let me know! Also VERY interested to know what you'd be willing to pay for any of these services. Thanks!

A: All sound great except the mom's Taxi Service because heaven forbid if there is a car accident. Try the Senior assisted living homes. They need personal shoppers for groceries and other things. Good luck.

Q: What about that rebate?? who has been there? 10 points for the best story heres A good one....?
I knew better, and I still walked right into it. It all started with Best Buy. (I hear your gasp of horror already. I know, I know: How many sob stories have begun with that phrase? Some day children will try to scare each other with stories set in large consumer electronic chain stores. "'The call is coming from INSIDE THE COMP USA!'") According to the August 15, 1999 Sunday paper, they had computer memory on sale, cheap cheap cheap. Their price was low to begin with, and the $30 mail-in rebate made it a great deal. I'd been meaning to add more memory to my computer for a while, and this seemed like the perfect opportunity. Granted, I had to go by Best Buy on a Sunday. See, our local Best Buy is in a shopping center along with a Wal-Mart, a Barnes & Noble, and any other number of shrines to consumerism. This wouldn't be so bad if the shopping center in question weren't in its own cul-de-sac, with only one road feeding it from the main highway nearby. Getting into the shopping center isn't hard. It's getting out that will try your patience, especially on a weekend. But for those memory prices, I'd gladly brave the horrors of traffic and the throngs of people whose job, near as I can tell, is to wander around Best Buy staring slack-jawed at the miracles of modern electronics and in general getting in people's way. I made it to the Best Buy just fine. I made my way through the crowd of people milling about the store, finally arriving at the computer department. No one was at the desk. The memory was kept in locked glass cabinets; without an employee, there was no way to get the memory. There was one person in front of me at the counter. I waited for about ten minutes, watching other people wander around the computer department and listening to one of the sales staff explain the wonders of Compaq laptops to a customer. Finally, I asked the guy in front of me how long he'd been waiting for help. "Oh, about forty minutes," he told me. "Hold my spot," I told him, then went in search of help. Both of the employees I could see were busy with customers. I decided to bother the guy hawking Compaqs. "Say, we've been waiting a while," I said, pointing to the man at the counter who by this point was slumped against it as if all the life was being drained from his body. "Can you get someone to help us?" "Oh, you need Frank. He's got the key." "Where's Frank?" "I dunno. He went on break a little while ago. He should be back soon." "Soon" in this case meant "fifteen minutes." I spent the time chatting with the guy in front of me in line. "I never come here if I can help it," he said. "But their prices on some stuff are so good, I end up breaking my vow never to come here again." Frank eventually showed up. "We're both after some of that 64Mb of memory that's on sale," my new-found friend told Frank. Frank glanced towards the cabinet. "Oh, we've sold out of that." I took another look at the cabinet. There were packages of memory in the slot labelled "64Mb memory". "What's that?" I asked, pointing. Frank took a closer look at the cabinet. "That's just some 32Mb memory. We ran out of room for it in its usual spot." Oh, lovely. "When do you expect to get some more memory in?" "Trucks come on Tuesday morning. Check back with us then." I made my way back out of the store, pushing my way past an insanely long line at the customer service desk. I'd have to wait, or try some of the other Best Buy stores in the region. On Monday, I asked Misty to stop by the Best Buy in Raleigh on her way home from work. At the time she worked on the far side of Raleigh, so could swing by on her way back from work and pick some up. They didn't have any, she was told, but should be restocked "on Tuesday morning." We decided to call before bothering with another trip to either store. Misty and I spent the next few days trying to get a call through to the Best Buy in either Raleigh or Durham. The procedure went something like this: Dial the number for the computer department. Listen to it ring for a while. Eventually hang up. Try the number for the customer service department instead. Listen to the phone ring. If you're lucky, someone finally answers. Tell the person, "I'm trying to find out if you have any of the 64Mb of memory that was advertised in your Sunday circular." The person who answered the phone will say something like, "Mrbl fll mmtm." Do not be alarmed; this is normal. Wait on hold while Mumble Man goes to get an employee from the computer department on the phone, or to check the stock himself. After a while, either the phone will spontaneously hang up on you, or another Mumble Man will pick up the phone. If the latter occurs, go back three steps. Misty eventually short-circuited this process by asking for a customer service manager. The manager was able to tell her that, yes, they had some of the memory. After work she stopped by to buy two packages of memory. It took her over an hour to get someone to wait on her and get her the memory. But never mind that, I had my memory! I popped the memory in the computer, filled out my rebate forms, and sent them in the mail to PNY Technologies, Inc. When I first went to Best Buy on Sunday I had grabbed a number of the necessary rebate forms, and I decided to keep one of the extras, since it had contact information in the unlikely case that my rebates didn't arrive. September passed, then October. The form had said to wait eight weeks from the closing date of the offer, September 4th, before bugging them about the rebate. By November 10th, I had tired of waiting. I called the 1-888 number listed on the card. It was busy. Okay, no problem, I thought. I'll just send e-mail to the address on the card. The e-mail I sent came back. No such account at Prodigy. I kept trying to call that 1-888 number. I called early in the day. I called late in the afternoon. I would walk past the phone in my office, then spring towards it and punch in the number quickly, in the hopes of surprising PNY. The line was always busy. After a week of this, I did a little research and got the number for PNY corporate headquarters. (It's 973-515-9700, should this ever happen to you.) Before calling that number, I decided to try the 1-888 number once again. Lo and behold, it rang. To my amazement, someone picked up the phone. To my further amazement, she was helpful. I explained that I hadn't received my rebate for the two packages of memory I'd bought. She tapped away on her computer for a few minutes, then told me that PNY had sent the checks, but that the post office had returned them. She asked me for my address. I gave it to her. "Huh," she said. "That's the same address as we have in our computers. Well, don't worry. We'll get your rebate to you. It'll take about four weeks." It didn't even take that long. On Monday, December 6th, the check arrived. I tore it open. The check was for $30. It only covered half of the rebate I was due. Again I tried calling the 1-888 number. Again it was busy. This time I decided not to fool around. I called corporate headquarters and asked to speak to someone about my rebate. They sent me to extension 2002, where I spoke to a man named Gerald. He took my information and promised to pass it on to "the person who takes care of this." He also assured me that, since it was so close to Christmas, the rebate center was swamped, and that my second check was probably delayed. "Give it another few weeks," he asked. I gave it another few weeks, by which time it was Christmas, and then New Year's. The check hadn't arrived by the 6th, and the whole world hadn't descended into chaos because of the Y2K bug, so it was time to call PNY Technologies, Inc. again. The 1-888 number was (surprise!) busy. I called corporate H.Q. and spoke to Gerald again. "You're the third person who's called about this this week." Somehow, I wasn't surprised. "Give it one more week." I gave it two, then called back on January 19th. This time I reached an answering machine. I left a message and my number, as if I thought that they might actually call me back. Rather than wait for them to call me, I tried again on the 20th. I got the machine again, so I left another, less civil message. I decided to try again on the 21st. Hey, if nothing else I could start coming up with creative messages to leave on the machine. I was surprised when I got a live person on the phone, a man named Victor. I told him my story, including the part about the missing e-mail address, the busy 1-888 number, and Gerald's "help." He gave me a toll-free number to call in case I ever had to call back, and said, "Give me about five minutes to look up your account. I'll call you back." That was at 3:25. At 3:32 he was back on the phone. "I couldn't find your account. Did you personally buy the memory, or did someone else?" I told him that Misty had bought the memory. He said, "Let me check again. I'll get right back to you." Amazingly enough, he was true to his word. He was back on the phone at 3:39. "One check was sent out previously, and I've authorized you for the second one. It should arrive in three weeks." I was skeptical, but Victor turned out to be correct. On the 8th of February, 2000, my second check arrived. It came in one of those perforated tear-open paper envelopes, and on the inside was a special message to me from PNY Technologies, Inc. and the TCA Rebate Center: STOP! Don't Cash this Check (Trade it in for a Greater Value) SPECIAL OFFER Send your rebate check back to us (to the address on the check), and we will send you The Millennium PassTM, a Y2K solution to keep your computer running properly after January 1, 2000 (A $59.99 value!) When the new year arrives, many computers (even newer ones) will not be able to recognize the difference between dates in the years 1900 and 2000. This problem could cause your computer to behave erratically and even lose data! The Millennium PassTM installs in minutes in your computer, and will fix the Y2K bug instantly. Unlike software solutions, it will not disappear if you re-load system software, and is not subject to virus attacks. It also uses less system resources, since it is an 8-bit add-on card (hardware), and unlike software, it does not use memory or disk space to operate. It becomes a permanent part of your computer, taking over the date/time function of your system. To get the Millennium PassTM (a $59.99 value), simply return this check (send the entire page-do not endorse check). We will ship your Y2K Protection right back to you. I decided not to take them up on this generous offer. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

A: Good 4 U

Q: How many receipt-less voting machines are used nation-wide?


A: None in California./ They have been outlawed. And should be across the United States. No more Diebold Presidents, let us look to elect American Presidents from here on out.

Q: What are my rights in these circumstances? work problem?
Hi, I have a slight problem at work and I'm not sure what my rights are. I'll try and keep it as short and simple as possible. Back in November 2007, I carelessly reversed a company car into the back of a post, causing £300 worth of damage to the vehicle. I didn't have very much money at the time. I agreed with my boss to pay him back by designing a new logo & a website for the company. I design logos and website on the side anyway, so it's something I'm very able to do. The value of the website and logo in question would be of more value to the actual vehicle damage. So they benefit. Several months past and I finished the website and the logo. I did take a little longer with the website than was needed. However, The boss was happy with the website and so was his new "deputy manager." We agreed that I had done enough and they were both happy. The website then went online. A few more months later (November 2008), I was called into a meeting with my boss and his new "operations manager", in which my boss then told me he wasn't happy with the website and he wanted me to pay off the vehicle damages in full. But the trouble is, by this point, they have used my logo on everything. They have it on their cars, uniforms, log sheets, invoices, key rings, business cards....you name it! So what are my rights at this point? I have my own website set up, in which I can do corporate logos at a set price. Am I within my rights to say to my employer "Here is your £300, now can you please not use my logo?" Or can I send them a bill for my logo I made? I need to get this sorted ASAP because they are just gonna take the £300 right out of my wages before Christmas in my next two pay packets. Please help. Many Thanks, I'll add at this point, I did the website in my own time, using my own equiptment. thanks for all your advice and I also realise i wrote equip"t"ment. hehe

A: Getting the agreement in writing would have been helpful. Without an agreement, you are going to have a difficult time. Of course, he will have just as difficult a time proving you didn't live up to your end of the bargain either.

Q: Pop a lock charged me $4,055.17!! Is this a crook or what?
On Friday I was heading out to Ikea and the Orlando area to finish up my Christmas shopping and my sister and I stopped for lunch. Well I locked my keys in the car so I called pop a lock and they came out and told me about three times that it was going to be $49.95 w/ tax and everything. Well they ended up charging my debit card for $4,055.17, that isn't even a reasonable mistake ya know? It's not even close! So I called my bank (BOA) and they said since the card wasn't swiped it was entered in that they wouldn't let it go past pending without a receipt and it should be taken off by Tuesday morning. Well I checked my account just now and it went through! I have the pop a lock corporate number which was given to me by the lady who answered the phone at my local pop a lock and she said they should be able to credit it immediately but what if they don't? I have Christmas shopping to do! Are they allowed to do this? I'm trying to work it out with them first but if I can't then I'll have to dispute it through my bank but that could take up to 3 months to get my money back. What do I do?? Have you or anyone you know had this happen with this company? Please help!!

A: Try a customer service manager.

Q: Do you believe Bush is like a contemporary tzar Midas? Whatever he touches turns into $h1t?
"I am not a conventionally religious man, or even a very superstitious one, but I do wish George Bush would stop asking God to bless America. Every time he does, we seem to be visited with another plague, suggesting divine wrath over our president’s evil ways. How else to explain the persistent calamity that has marked this administration: a pointless but very costly war over nonexistent Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, the devastating New Orleans flood, the betrayal of the nation by the money-changers—from Enron to Goldman Sachs—that Bush welcomed into the temple of the White House? What’s next? Pestilence, frogs, locusts or incurable boils? Dare we risk four more years of catastrophic misrule by a “W” alter ego? For those indifferent to the serious implications of that question, I recommend Oliver Stone’s new bio-flick, which brilliantly captures the “banality of evil” that has controlled our political life these past eight years. This phrase from Hannah Arendt’s characterization of the mundane cruelty that so marked the daily experience of European fascism has a frightening applicability to the Republican leadership that has done so much damage to this nation’s reputation for democratic integrity. Cynicism rules even as ritualistic prayer breaks, as depicted in the film “W,” abound. The pretense of piety earns the president and his accomplices a get-out-of-jail-free card; at no point in the film do any in the top ranks of this administration—captured so accurately and depressingly—accept one iota of accountability for how much damage they have wrought. Unrepentant, the same Republican apparatchiks are employing the familiar Rovian tactic of divide and conquer in seeking to continue their hold on power. Once again, they seek to focus attention on hot-button social issues and patriotic litmus tests to draw attention from the fact that family values are being destroyed by the loss of job and home. Perhaps John McCain is not a perfect replica of George W. Bush, but the parallels go beyond the senator’s enthusiastic support for the toxic mix of Bush’s imperial foreign policy and his arrogant indifference to the travails of our domestic existence. Neither man seems to have any sense of how we actually live or what we need from government. How else to explain their common antipathy to Social Security and Medicare, which, after public education, represent the nation’s most successful programs? Can you imagine the panic today if McCain and Bush had succeeded in tying Social Security to investments in the stock market? They view government as nothing more than a proud sponsor of the military-industrial complex while ignoring the threat to homeland security from corporate pirates. Don’t say we weren’t warned. Bush came into office believing fervently that what was good for Enron and its CEO, Kenneth “Kenny Boy” Lay, Bush’s top financial sponsor, was good for the country. So, too, McCain, who chose Phil Gramm as co-chair of his presidential campaign, ignoring the huge loophole in Gramm’s Commodity Futures Trading Act, which allowed Enron, where his wife, Wendy Gramm, was on the board of directors, to so shamelessly game the energy market. Trumpeting the benefits of the legislation he tacked onto an omnibus spending bill the day before the 2000 Christmas recess, then-Sen. Gramm stated: “It protects financial institutions from over-regulation. It provides legal certainty for the $60 billion market in swaps.” Those swaps created the toxic investments that U.S. taxpayers are now stuck with as the nation struggles to save those unregulated financial institutions from bankruptcy. McCain, who should have learned the cost of radical deregulation from his own involvement in the savings and loan scandal as one of the infamous “Keating Five,” totally bought Gramm’s line. McCain was the chair of Gramm’s 1996 presidential bid and up until major Wall Street firms collapsed continued to echo the insistence of the former-Texas-senator-turned-banker that there was no real crisis in the financial markets. McCain evidences the underlying motivator attributed to Bush in Stone’s movie: the distorted priorities of a son of privilege doing battle with the legacy of more gifted and responsible family ancestors. Both grew up as spoiled screw-ups repeatedly bailed out of trouble by their highly accomplished fathers, in McCain’s case an admiral, and both assume, as a matter of legacy, that they have a right to rule. What they ignored in their legacy was a Christian’s obligation to make the economic system that handsomely rewarded their kin at least minimally responsive to the needs of ordinary folk "

A: Bail Out huh? The only ones that got bailed out is Bush and his gang of thugs. I keep telling everyone, Bush and his thugs know that they are getting fired, so they just wanted to empty the cash register before they leave the store Duh!

Q: How many receipt-less voting machines are used nation-wide?


A: rigged for Bush????? Newsflash idiot....Bush wont be on the ballot anymore.

Q: How many receipt-less voting machines are used nation-wide?


A: OMG

Q: How many receipt-less voting machines are used nation-wide?


A: you cant be serious, there is no way to know since they come and go, and give it up. That was years ago and its a moot point. Get on with life and forget it now.