Day 322: NEWSFLASH: We need recognition!

Awhile back my co-worker and I were Administrative Professionals anxiously awaiting Administrative Professionals Day. The previous year, our boss had set it up that we had the same lunch time, so that we could go to the restaurant of his choice for lunch.  That year was awkward. We barely knew one another and didn't know anything about one another outside of work. But this year would be grat, we all had become great co-workers/friends. Just one problem, he hadn't mentioned it. We slyly put it on his outlook calendar, and handwrote it on the calendar in his office. NOTHING. We mentioned it in a meeting. NOTHING. We recounted last year. (At this time, didn't we go eat?) STILL NOTHING. They day of Administrative Professionals Day, my co-worker/friend sent out an email telling others thank you in accordance to the day. Finally having her fill, she frustratedly stormed his office. And...he laughed. He knew all along and told his staff not to say anything so he could surprise us. I have no idea if we went to eat that day or some other time, but I know we got the recognition that we so badly wanted.

What I remember most from that day is my co-worker/friend flared nostrils as she went in his office to discuss his indifference. I said all this to say "We need attention!" I know you are supposed to be acknowledged and be thankful for the work of Administrative Professionals daily, but often people don't, so they created a special day to do it.
I know you are always supposed to show your loved ones love and be thankful for them in your everyday life, but people take each other for granted, and don't show their love thinking please "she has food on the table right?" So they created a special day to do it, and they called it Valentine's Day.  Forget all that other stuff about this being a made-up holiday, so what I don't have a girlfriend, and only girls care about this holiday. The answers are yes, DUH, and yes. And you probably don't have a girlfriend because you didn't treat her special. AND if you didn't treat her special and she's still your girlfriend, she probably didn't have a very good relationship with her daddy and thinks this is the best it gets. And if none of these are true to you, and you treat your girl very well, then you are quite possibly the one getting shafted. It goes both ways boys and girls. (woops got carried away, back to my point)

I know you are supposed to be thankful everyday for your blessed life, but people don't so they created a special day to do it, and called it Thanksgiving. (Never mind what Thanksgiving is used for now as a pre-cursor day to sleep before you shop all night).

My point being everyone needs recognition. When they are doing right, and when they do something out of the ordinary. Thank them. Tell them how good they look. Tell them how good the food tastes. Just be grateful.

Be grateful.