The Christmas Celebration!
Ho ho ho!??
The moment we hear Christmas, the first thing appears in our mind is Santa and a gift! Christmas and the new year is one of those days of the year which calls for a celebration and a get together for all the colleagues. Every company plans a creative ways and style to make this festival merry for all the employees.
At Emipro, our HR team,?makes it a point to organize the most creative activities for all the festivals and for new year celebrations we give our extra mile to make it a memorable one for each of the employee.
Back in 2019, as December was approaching, I bucked up my team and asked for their ideas for the celebration. So, there was one of team member who has given an idea of a game called Jam card. The game was about expressing appreciation, gratitude, welcoming etc towards each other through a jam card wherein employees have to complete the statement given on the card and name of the employee to whom this card should reach. I approved this in the one shot and along with to add a gift factor we also kept Secret Santa that year. We asked our employee to bring a gift for any of their colleagues without mentioning their own name on the gift.?
We kept a small box say 3 x 3 feet on our entrance with an expectation that one employee will bring one gift for one of their colleague but to our surprise by 10:00 in the morning our box was already more than full and gifts were falling out of it.?Well, it was the view to witness the love and affection our employees have for each other. Each of them have tried to make their colleagues feel special in the best way they can!?
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By the end of the day, we distributed the gifts and jam cards to all the respective employees and then began the race of having the highest number of both the things( P. S.?This was not in the game but as somebody has rightly said " ??? ?? ????? ?? ??"). Even though I wasn't vocal and much expressive but I was somewhere knowing that the race of getting the highest number of jam cards having gratitude and appreciation will be having a very clear winner "Me" looking at the heap of the cards lying on my table. To show my modesty and maturity I didn't count but was waiting for clock to hit 7:00 PM, so that I can run to my house and confirm the victory. But before it, one of my team member came to my chamber and started counting the cards. As numbers were increasing my smile was getting wider and cheeks were getting more pink. The number stopped at 96. Out of 112 employees(which includes me, management team and the helpers) I got 96 Jam cards, a overwhelming number, isn't it?! I was on cloud nine and that evening my scooty worked as a chartered plain for me and I went home flying in the air. Had a very good sleep also! Not only this, bought the costliest brownie for my family in the happiness of getting this amount of love(more winning the race!).?
Next morning still the hang over was on my mind and still I was waiting for the employees to come and congratulate me for getting these many jam cards. But "???? ?? ?? ??? ?? ???? ??? ???? ??! ". My happiness was shattered when my team member came to my chamber to let me know that I am a runner up and winner is our office boy with 103 jam cards. And I learnt The lesson here that " A good tea can win over all emotions !"
PS-This was a fun incident and have presented it in the most lucid way!?Trust me I was not "that" sad to be runner up!?