Awkward Family Story: The Office Family
August 26th, 2009
I used to work at an office where birthday greeting cards were passed around at least once a week. When the card reached me, I’d quickly scribble down a message and pass it on ASAP. One day, a co-worker (and friend) told me that I might want to pay more attention to when signing cards, since the one that had most recently made the rounds was not a birthday card but rather a sympathy card for a co-worker whose parent had recently died. In it, I had written, “Hope it’s a great one!”
(submitted by J-Rock)
Tags: office
OMG! Im surprised that hasn’t happened to me yet! lmao!!!
This happened at my work but the total opposite.. At my work ( a vets office) every week we pass around sympathy card for the animals of our clients that have passed away that week.. Well we were passing a card around for congratulations of some sort ( i forget what now) Well one of my co-workers put “So sorry for your loss” Lol.. it was hilarious.. because it wasn’t from me!
this is like the only story i laughed at on this entire site
OMG! I did the same thing! I’m so glad to know that I’m not the only one.
We used to do birthday cards at the office, too. There was one guy whose job it was to buy the cards. One day he tried to be clever and bought what he thought was a Spanish-language card for the birthday of a guy from Mexico. The card was in Spanish, all right – but it was a condolence card, as the birthday boy explained to the assembled well-wishers.
Thats pretty bad… but I can beat it!
We do the same things at my work, pass around a card for Birthdays, when someone leaves, or has baby… there are any number of card worthy events. There are two people at my office by the name of Jennifer. One goes my Jenn the other by Jennifer. Jennifer had been talking for weeks about how excited she was for her upcoming breast implant procedure. We were all well aware that this would be happening and that she would be out of work for sometime.
Around this same time Jenn’s father passed away. We got her a beautiful card and signed it with our condolences and well wishes. With exception to one person who wrote “can’t wait to see your new additions! hope they are everything you wanted and more!;)” AwKWarD
Where is Angela when you need her!
An awkward slice of fried gold!
…I guess you’ll actually take the time to glance at the front of the card in future!
My mother recently passed away, and when I returned to work, I had a very sweet sympathy card signed by around 20 people.
Two if them signed it ‘Best Wishes’.
My codolences to you, scribbler!
j-rock? and you work in an office? and listen to j-rock?
i think everybody missed the akward
All purpose greeting:
I sincerely hope that tomorrow will be better for you.
what no i bet marney was the card monitor or i hope you get a compound bow out of it?
Whoa…
*fail*
So sorry.
a coworker of mine was leaving the company and so a goodbye card was passed around the office. at least five people wrote “Happy Birthday!!!!” hahahaa
Did Michael Scott sign that?
FINALLY!!! a story that’s worth our time!
Yes!
When my mother’s friend’s mother was in the hospital with cancer, my mom sent her a get well card. However, it turns out it was a sympathy card!
(You should expand that story and submit it… )
I could picture myself doing that!
Awkward.
Finaly an awkward story that is awkward. This one is pretty good. Epic card signing fail.
This is a perfect example of how these stories should be! It was actually awkward, and didn’t end with the word “awkward.” Well done!
Agreed.
I was working on my birthday one year when a card came around. I opened it and wondered why it said “Dave” all over it. I remembered that it was also Dave’s birthday and the card was not for me.
Ooh, that’s gotta sting
i’ve totally done that before! cringe-worthy!
Gah! I could totally see myself doing that. We have cards circulating at our office often.
Here’s one I like to do in that situation when a card comes around for someone I don’t particularly care for; after signing my name, grab a different color pen and elsewhere on the card write ‘you suck’
Its the little things like that that get me through the day.
Wow- how old are you? How clever- and I’m sure they won’t notice the handwriting is the same.
How old are you? Geez…have a sense of humor??
Apparently older than 10
Once again, Debbie Downer
hehehehehehe,thats awesome.
Geez, I just put little XXXOOOXXX,s or write “all my love”r above other people’s names. “You suck” never occurred to me …until now. Thanks, Damien, I need new ways to amuse myself, too.
Hence the “card monitors” above. That’s awesome.
That is the BEST! I will have to remember that trick ;>}
LOL! People are looking at me because I’m lauging so hard! Thanks, Damien.
Did we go to high school together? I think you signed my yearbook.
Oh, wow. I think we all went to the same high school. And he signed the back of my t-shirt.
hahaha see I was about to post my own passive agressive comments, recently a girl left who refused to wear proper work attire, so I wrote “all the men here are going to miss staring at your bra straps” but I like this better, oooh can’t wait until the next card comes around!!!!
OH. Oh that is rich. Not sure I’d have the guts to do it, but it’s super amusing.
Haha, that’s awkward gold.
A co-worker in my office actually did this to me, he was very embarrassed. The best part was when my birthday rolled around a couple of months later he wrote My deepest Sympathies in the card. We all got a big laugh out of it!
Oh that is hilarious!
Fantastic!
Oh no….I’ve worked in big corporate America for decades. I’m now wondering if I’VE done that! YIKES!
I was thinking the same thing, lol.
hahahahahhaha!!! That is GREAT!!!! GREAT, GREAT POST!!! A true CLASSIC!!!
Ohhhhhhhhh that’s bad, I bet you felt like crap!
at the communist-like camp i call work, we have “card monitors,” they stand there while you write & sign the cards– some even prescreen what you’re going to write…
Sounds like an episode of The Office where something Angela, the head of the Party Planning Committee, might do.
I can totally picture that too…
I believe this actually just *was* in the Office! Darryl’s grandmother (?) died and everyone wrote birthday congratulations on the card.
I have a new group of second graders with one little girl so busy telling the other kids what to do she doesn’t get her work done. I wondered what kind of adult she would grow into. Now I know, the office card monitor.
LOL!!!
She’ll grow up to be just like Marney. God help us.
BAHAHAAA marney… good lord lol
Hahahah too funny!!
This is actually funny. Probably the first one of these stories that got a laugh
Deliciously cringe-worthy.
I feel you… LOL