Vonda had a birthday this past week. Maybe it was Wednesday? Maybe it was Thursday? I want to say that it was on Thursday, because when I came in early that morning, her cubicle had been decorated in a series of black balloons and some other black-colored adornments, mostly in the form of some kind of plastic sheet/curtain that they draped along the sides of her cubicle. There was a black "Happy Birthday" banner behind her chair, hanging along the rearmost inner wall of her cubicle. Why the decorator(s) chose to go with black as the primary color, I'll never know, but it is very telling in some way. Vonda brings zero color to the work group. Every member of the clique is similarly bland and colorless. So with everything being devoid of color, I guess it makes some sense. I suppose whoever decorated might have thought it was festive, but if you're asking me, it comes off as lazy. It looked that whoever did it barely applied themselves and did about as little as they could. Sure, one could say that all that matters is the thought, but the whole thing didn't look like it took that much effort. Either way, I don't care. Vonda and the other members of the work group clique aren't worth my time. If I'm guessing, I would think that Chortle and/or Fannie decorated Vonda's cubicle. They both do minimal work as it is, so why wouldn't it be them? Gurney wouldn't trouble himself to do that sort of thing. He may have come up with the idea to decorate her cubicle, but he's not going to exert himself physically to do the actual decorating. He's just not that type. Kyra was out on Wednesday and she's too lazy to come into the office when she doesn't have to, even for a so-called friend. Nessa was actually working on Wednesday and was busy doing more important things. Morie doesn't decorate cubicles. As far as I can recall, she has never partaken in decorating cubicles. She has decorated offices, but as far as cubicles go, she won't waste her time or effort on such a small space.
I'm not writing this because I want to hype up Vonda's birthday, because truthfully, I don't care. Just because she's a year older does not mean that any better now than she was yesterday. She's still terrible like the rest of the clique. I don't know what the clique did for her as far as gifts went. At most, I saw Nessa leave what I believe was a gift card in her cubicle. If anyone else had gotten her a gift, they didn't make a spectacle out of it, not that Nessa did, but Nessa didn't care who saw her. She just walked over to Vonda's cubicle, left the gift card there, and promptly returned to her desk. She did her part and that was the end of it.
I write this entry because it makes it think back to years ago, when the work group was in excellent shape, when the people in it didn't suck (and cliques didn't exist), and the work group would celebrate birthdays as a united group and otherwise cohesive unit. Those days died a long time ago, because I know that if Morie cared like she did years ago, Vonda's birthday would have been a bigger deal than the clique made it out to be.
In years past, a birthday card would have gone around for everyone to sign. Morie would have taken up a collection to buy the birthday boy or girl a gift, with given for the gift being given to the entire work group and not just one person. There would have been some kind of birthday lunch, whether this was some kind of potluck in the office or a lunch somewhere in the community at a local eatery. The entire work group would be invited and the intent was to have everyone there. If someone couldn't make it, then Morie would rearrange the time and date of the lunch to accommodate whoever couldn't make it. I always saw all of that as being pretty much a bare minimum, but still a nice way to celebrate someone on their special day.
Absolutely none of that happened for Vonda, at least nothing that stemmed from Morie herself. She didn't exert herself in any way, not that doing so would be her responsibility anyway. I think because of the dissension in the work group, she kept her distance and chose not to do anything, because not all of us would have participated. In speaking just for me, I would not have contributed a fucking dime towards any kind of celebration in Vonda's honor. I'm equally convinced that Gloria wouldn't have contributed any money to that sort of thing either. I damn sure wouldn't have signed her birthday card either. Gloria might have, because she has to maintain some form of decorum with everyone in the work group. Thankfully, I'm under no obligation to be nice to any of those sorry mother fuckers and I refuse to pretend that I care for any of them.
But as for the current state of the work group, that's how "we" celebrate birthdays today. It wasn't always like that. Birthdays used to be so much more back then and in some way, I miss how we used to celebrate our peers, because when we did it, it meant something and it felt good to celebrate. Of course, the work group didn't suck like it does now, so in some way, I am not surprised as to how birthdays are celebrated now. If the current work group knew how we used to do things, they too would see the same glaring differences that I just referenced in this entry. They have no idea and they won't know how things used to be because no one is going to tell them. I'm not telling them a fucking thing.
Birthday or not, Vonda still sucks.
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