Every office has one. Ours is full of them. AOCMs refuse to be quiet and let every one else enjoy the festive season preferring to revel in stories of queuing, sunburn, expenses, crowds, hatred of Christmas Carols and unnecessary happy frivolity in general.
We festooned our AOCMs desk with Christmas lights and abundant glittery decorations and instead of being a sport about it; he had a tantrum and tore them down. To be honest our AOCM is an AOM the rest of the year anyway. He is constantly scowling and miserable and this tends to rub off on the people around him. Everyday he arrives at 7am, the same time as me and has something new to rubbish. As much as I enjoy a healthy debate and appreciate people with the gall to have an opinion to an age where no-one seems to care, it is easy to be negative. It takes much more courage to draw a line in the sand in support of something.
Here is a short piece of advice to AOCMs worldwide:
Life is what you make it. By simply putting a smile on your face, even a false one, you can trick your mind into being positive and feeling happy, and it is contagious to those around you. Go and buy a CD of Christmas songs and sing Boney-Ms "Mary's Boy Child" or the early nineties live aid combo by Bob Geldof, "Do they know its Christmas" as loud as possible on your way to work. It will change your life.
Feliz Navidad
C.K
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