They wined and dined us

 After 2 years and 2 months, the place where I'm temporarily working was finally opened up again for people to return to work in person.  People did have the option of continuing to work at home if their supervisors approved it but it was strongly encouraged to at least work a hybrid type schedule with a few days in the office and a few days at home.  Since I've only been working there since last June and since the nature of my job involves having to be physically there in the building, this was a nonissue for me about returning to the office since I always worked in person since I started there.

To encourage employees to come back in, management offered a week of special events and food.  Everything was opened to everyone, regardless if you were returning back to the office or had been working in the office all along.  Here is the schedule of events for the week.  And I don't work for Amazon though I thought the smiley here looked a lot like the smile on the Amazon logo.  

These are the items that were in the goodie bag in addition to the free samples we got from the Don Francisco coffee truck that was there on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday mornings.  We also got to enter into a raffle for winning a big basket of coffee (hope I win!)

Every morning there was breakfast in the cafeteria.  It was muffins, donuts, granola bars, and fruit. Not the most healthiest of breakfasts but I still got something sweet every morning.  To heck with the diet this week.  My mom said to never pass up free food :)

On Monday lunch was provided with a grab and go concept.  There were sandwiches, salads, some foods you could heat up like salmon and rice, macaroni and cheese, and cookies. Lots of cookies.  Also lots of food.  I think they were anticipating a bigger crowd.  They encouraged people to come back and take some food home with them.  I grabbed a couple of salads to bring home.  

Here is my lunch from Monday:  (Actually the sandwiches was my lunch; I had one cookie and brought the rest home to hubby.  The sandwiches were so big that I had one for lunch on Monday and the other one for lunch on Tuesday).  

Wednesday they brought in a food truck.  It was an old fire truck converted to a food truck.  The name of the company was Fire Up Freedom.  

On the menu were cheeseburgers, hot dogs, and chicken sandwiches.  Best cheeseburger I have had in a bit!

On Thursday they listed an event happening at 4 p.m. that was called "Thirsty Thursday."  I wasn't sure what it would be.  I was wondering if it would be like ice cream sodas or something like that.  Someone at work said it was going to be beer and wine.  I went to the cafeteria to check it out and sure enough it was beer and wine, as well as soft drinks.  I didn't drink since I work until 4:30 (lol) and also I don't drink and drive.  But they had beer on tap, some wine and some drinks like margaritas in a can.  Each person who wanted to participate got 2 tickets; each ticket representing one drink.  That was the limit  you could have (2 drinks).  Those in charge of dispensing the drinks also stamped the person's hand when giving them the drink so no one would get more than 2 drinks.  

We no longer have to get health checked when we report to work (previously had to have our temperatures taken, answer questions if we were sick or exposed to someone with Covid, etc and then got a printed badge with our picture on it stating we had passed the health check for the day).

Honestly, I didn't see too many new to me people in the office so I think a lot of people are still trying to work from home if at all possible.  Wednesday was the only day it was super busy there and that is because one of the departments had a face to face meeting so all employees had to come in.  

So not much change except we did get wined and dined this week.  That was fun (and fattening).  

Have a great weekend!