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Another New Year’s resolution for 2007: never touch Vodka Red Bull this year again.
It might be fun at the party, but the next day you just feel horrible!
However, we had a great night and a fantastic start of 2007. Hope this year will continue as it began last night!
Much more important than a good New Year’s Eve party is EU’s ongoing enlargement:
приветствам България! Bun venit România!
Some might call Vienna a cold town. Actually it is, Vienna’s citizens tend to be in an endless bad mood, always a bit unfriendly and they don’t like talking to strangers.
People like monochrom teach us that stereotypes never apply for 100%. Luckily.
Last Tuesday we went to the opening of Roböexotica 2006, a festival for robotics, cocktail robotics to be precise. There even traveled people from San Francisco to Vienna to participate and show us their cocktail mixing robots. It was such a weird and exciting evening, with fire spitting machines, ice cube destroying machines, smoking machines, beautiful lime squeezing machines. One of the best screwdrivers I ever had was mixed by a robot!
I’m glad living in a city were events like Roböexotica are possible.
Yeah, and then, last night I decided to come with a friend to a party at Almdudler headquarters (yes, the ginger ale like soft drink!) were she was going to record some DJs for PLAY.FM. We didn’t expect anything, just wanted to go there, record the set, have a few drinks and leave early. Expect the unexpected: Mr DSL and especially Frau Bass transformed Almdudler headquarters into a boiling pot!
The venue actually is quite interesting. Apparently Almudler is sponsoring Vienna’s street art scene and let 8 crews work on (spraying) the building, 8 rooms inside and parts of the building outside. A clever marketing move from Almdudler (way better than Nokia!) and an exhibition venue for street artists.
Creative, strange and freaky subculture is often considered as product of metropolitan jungles, as a result and mixture of various kinds of urban possibilities and characteristics.
But it’s not, subculture is of course not bound exclusively to urbanity.
An amazing demonstration of that thesis I’ve seen yesterday in Weitersfelden, Upper Austria, deepest Mühlviertel, in the middle of nowhere, at a ball organized by BACKLAB.
Usually in such a rural environment, at this type of event, you’d expect some bands or DJs playing the greatest hits from 60ies to the 90ies. Not in Weitersfelden. I hardly remember when I’ve seen such weird live acts the last time. Bunny Lake, the headliner, I already knew from Vienna, a great white trash live show! The other local acts were just a mess of costumes, noise, performance and music. Overall big entertainment factor!
I’ve never been to Mühlviertel before, but they definitely know how to party!
Usually I don’t like and don’t read this oh-look-how-funny-that-is spam mails. But this email thread indeed is hilarious! If you don’t know it, well, read yourself…
FROM: Pauline Lewis, Human Resources Director
TO: All Employees
DATE: 4th November 2004
RE: Christmas PartyI’m happy to inform you that the company Christmas Party will take place on December 23rd, starting at noon in the private function room at the Grill House. There will be a cash bar and plenty of drinks!
We’ll have a small band playing traditional carols…please feel free to sing along. And don’t be surprised if the MD shows up dressed as Santa Claus!
A Christmas tree will be lit at 1.00p.m.. Exchange of gifts among employees can be done at that time, however, no gift should be over £10.00 to make the giving of gifts easy for everyone’s pockets. This gathering is only for employees! The MD will make a special announcement at the Party.A very Merry Christmas to you and your family
Pauline
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FROM: Pauline Lewis, Human Resources Director
TO: All Employees
DATE: 5th November 2004
RE: Holiday PartyIn no way was yesterday’s memo intended to exclude our Jewish employees. We recognise that Chanukah is an important holiday, which often coincides with Christmas, though unfortunately not this year. However, from now on we’re calling it our ‘Holiday Party’..
The same policy applies to any other employees who are not Christians. There will be no Christmas tree or Christmas carols sung. We will have other types of music for your enjoyment. Happy now?Happy Holidays to you and your family, Pauline.
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FROM: Pauline Lewis, Human Resources Director
TO: All Employees
DATE: 6th November 2004
RE: Holiday PartyRegarding the note I received from a member of Alcoholics Anonymous requesting a non-drinking table…you didn’t sign your name. I’m happy to accommodate this request, but if I put a sign on a table that reads, “AA Only”, you wouldn’t be anonymous anymore!!!!
How am I supposed to handle this? Somebody? Forget about the gift exchange, no gift exchange allowed now since the Union Officials feel that £10.00 is too much money and Management believe £10.00 is a little cheap.
NO GIFT EXCHANGE WILL BE ALLOWED.Pauline.
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FROM: Pauline Lewis, Human Resources Director
TO: All Employees
DATE: 7th November 2004
RE: Holiday PartyWhat a diverse group we are! I had no idea that December 20th begins the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which forbids eating and drinking during daylight hours. There goes the party! Seriously, we can appreciate how a luncheon at this time of year does not accommodate our Muslim employees’ beliefs, perhaps the Grill House can hold off on serving your meal until the end of the party – or else package everything up for you to take home in a little foil doggy bag. Will that work?
Meanwhile, I’ve arranged for members of Weight Watchers to sit farthest from the dessert buffet and pregnant women will get the table closest to the toilets, Gays are allowed to sit with each other, Lesbians do not have to sit with gay men, each will have their own table. Yes, there will be flower arrangements for the gay men’s table too. To the person asking permission to cross dress – no cross dressing allowed.
We will have booster seats for short people. Low fat food will be available for those on a diet. We cannot control the salt used in the food we suggest those people with high blood pressure taste the food first..
There will be fresh fruits as dessert for Diabetics, the restaurant cannot supply “No Sugar” desserts. Sorry! Did I miss anything?!?!?!?!?!Pauline.
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FROM: Pauline Lewis, Human Resources Director
TO: All F****** Employees
DATE: 8 November 2004
RE: The F****** Holiday Party.Vegetarian pricks I’ve had it with you people !!! We’re going to keep this party at the Grill House whether you like it or not, so you can sit quietly at the table furthest from the “grill of death”, as you so quaintly put it, you’ll get your f****** salad bar, including organic tomatoes, But you know tomatoes have feeling too, They scream when you slice them. I’ve heard them scream. I’m hearing the scream right NOW!! I hope you all have a rotten holiday, drink, drive and die.
The Bitch from HELL!!!!!!!!!!!
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FROM: John Bishop – Acting Human Resources Director
DATE: 9th November 2004
RE: Pauline Lewis and Holiday PartyI’m sure I speak for all of us in wishing Pauline Lewis a speedy recovery, and I’ll continue to forward your cards to her. In the meantime, the Management has decided to cancel our Holiday Party and instead, give everyone the afternoon of the 23rd December off with full pay.