For a week or so, my favorite co-worker has been giving me grief about not fulfilling my goal. Personally I think he's jealous that --
A. I am not heart-broken about not accomplishing said goal.
B. I have fabulous friends that I love spending time with.
C. I drank more cups of coffee all the while enjoying spending time with those friends mentioned in "B"!!!
Yesterday I got the best present of all. The girl that keeps track of our progress/hours sent me an email with the subject: "HAVE FUN WITH THIS!!!!" The email contained a cut/paste of her Excel spreadsheet which showed that my favorite co-worker was one mile SHORT of making his 700 miles (of biking) goal. He rode his bike 699. For real! I confirmed the math...and then like any good receptionist, I printed (landscape, thank you very much) the email on 11x17 paper. Now I should interject right now -- the fact that he did not make his wellness goal made me smile. I know it shouldn't. I should've felt bad that he did not make his goal...but you know what? Never once did he feel even a smidge-bit bad for me in not making mine.
With 11x17 print-out in hand, I marched into his office and said, "About your wellness goal for this quarter? You are one mile short of making your goal! Seriously -- 699 miles!!!" And then I did what an good friend would do...I laughed outloud. I did. I'm not going to lie.
He grabbed the 11x17 print-out and stared in disbelief. Once he came to his senses, he grabbed his phone and called the keeper of the spreadsheet. He begged and pleaded. She would not budge. (Three cheers to her!!!) He finally gave up the fight and bid her a good day. I left him alone to sulk over the mile short...
This morning, first thing, he says to me -- and might I add, a fine, "Good morning, Angie. How are you?" would've been nice but it was not to be... He greets me with, "My commute to work is 23 and a 1/2 miles. Every morning I put down 23 miles on my card."
Since I had already consumed a cup of coffee and had my wits about me...I replied, "It's simple 2nd grade math. If the number to the right of the decimal is greater than 5, you need to round-up."
"Well, that's lying." he replied.
"Really? Lying? Rounding up numbers is lying? I think not. Excel rounds-up all the time. Are you calling a Microsoft a liar?" she laughingly replied. "You see, for me it was 12 hours short and for you it's 1 mile. It's not a crisis!"
It was too much. Just too much. Let it go. So you didn't win the prize. So your name won't be in the company newsletter... It's one quarter out of the year. And if I do recall, a year or so ago, he was the one who told me, "I don't know what you are getting so bent-out-of-shape about, Angie. It's the Wellness Club!!! So you didn't complete your goal. You worked hard. Set the bar lower next quarter."
No worries -- we set the bar lower for the winter quarter. :) I cannot wait to slack - off and do "Lazy Girl Work-Outs" with my fabulous friends, and accomplish next quarter's goal, laughed the girl with curly hair.
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