New Employee Swag

OK, look at this precious super tiny desk kit I got today!

Why would you ever need such a tiny little desk kit? Do you SEE those staple refills? And you’re never going to find that super tiny tape refill again. It’s like an emergency sewing kit … but for secretarial emergencies? It’s stupid as fuck and yet I LOVE IT.

This week, I’m stuck in two different sets of new employee courses. One for my immediate company (well, not even — the one above my immediate company) in the afternoon. And in the morning it’s the division above THAT company. So in the morning we got swag! I love getting free swag! And I gotta say, doll size desk supplies is a whole new thing to be branding. They’ll stick a company logo on anything! We got a little box of stuff. A camping bottle (the non-insulated kind you can throw in the fire), some automatic pencils, pens, little branded sticky notes, a nice notebook (graph paper too, excellent choice), and this tiny desk kit.

I wanted to get out all my various job water bottles through the years but was distraught to find — or actually, NOT find my BAE one. That was a nice one! I can’t find it anywhere. I have a Logicore mug, a KRS bottle (two of those, actually), and I should have a BAE one. Dammit. We also have one from husbands company. Oh well. I also can’t believe I never got a Boecore bottle. I have Boecore everything else — bags, beanie hat/toboggan, stress ball, lanyards, enamel pin, shirt, jacket, cheap sunglasses.. can’t ever remember getting a bottle though. Weird.

The best swag I ever got was a full on quality beach towel from DRS. DRS was even monogrammed on it. That was a nice piece of swag. Of course they laid me off so fuck them, I used it to clean up a mess and threw it away. It was quality swag though.

Bottles seem to be the big thing. Which makes sense, they are useful. I miss stress balls/toys. I need more stress toys. I have a few. A Boecore golf ball, a blue ethics dude that might be a phone holder, an astronaut I stole from a coworker back at NG. I’m going to go to the NASA store tomorrow — maybe they’ll have a stress ball!