Sweet treats

I work for a place that has some pretty sweet benefits. One of which is a creative set of people who work in the back offices, a place where you don't often see creativity emerge.

In my meager experience at different news stations, when management or the higher ups want to say thank you..they throw a pizza party or they throw a box of doughnuts your way. That is appreciated, well, any food is really appreciated when you are barely scraping by...but there comes a time when realize you aren't in fifth grade anymore and a pizza party just doesn't get you excited like it used to.

What about some BBQ? Sandwiches? Something?

I don't have to worry about that here, thanks to the creativity of a few certain ladies. Oh sure, we sometimes have pizza, but more often than not we have something that is within the means of the budget but is creative.

Like this one. It's a carnival lunch. There was concession stand food, which isn't much to crow about, but the presentation was enough to make it fun. There were some banners someone found somewhere, a few balloons, and a candy buffet so we all could take some candy back to our desks in a plastic bag.

Then, there were homemade cupcakes that were really yummy. Do you know you can't even take homemade cupcakes in daycares or schools anymore? They have to be from a bakery. But here, it's still okay.

So this was a treat. We've had pretty impressive displays since I've been here, and I've already heard some talk of what could be done for the station holiday lunch.