The Working Girl Blog #20: It's Payday Friday, or Whaddaya mean we're going to karaoke tonight? To see all of Bobbie's "Working Girl" blogs, click on this link: http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/book/19261/working-girl-blogs

I'm sure there are many different so-called "traditions" that people have in the office. Not so much different from mine, except that my little group has been together for less than two months. And in that short time, you wouldn't have thought that they'd have developed any sort of traditions.

Thing was, these people aren't new to the company. The bulk of my guys came from other projects that were either discontinued or were already completed. So it was a natural thing for these people to carry the "traditions" of their old teams over to mine.

A handful of my team are in their thirties/late forties, and like to go to karaoke bars. They've been trying to keep their old group's tradition alive: going to a KTV (that means "Karaoke TV" if you didn't know) on a payday. They've gone twice before, inviting everyone in the team to join them. I heard that, so far, there have been no takers. I didn't know about this until one of them - the oldest member of my team - knocked on my door a few minutes ago and invited me to join them tonight. (Well, actually, I heard about it a couple of days ago - I heard him talking about it to the other guys, and that he was intending to invite me.) Apparently the guy owned part of this karaoke bar-restaurant in DC, and he's offered to give us a ten percent discount. Seems this guy is very into sing-alongs and karaoke (he even had a guitar in his hand when he knocked, intending to bring it to the bar later).

Anyway, being new to this boss thing, I didn't know what to do, so I decided to err on the side that's safe, and accepted the invitation. I mean, if I said no, would I offend them? How will that affect morale? Or maybe I'm over-thinking this thing yet again, and it doesn't really matter. In any case, best to play safe and accept. Even though it's Karaoke. (Well, that's okay - it's not as if I had a lot of class to begin with... besides, I'm as cornball as anyone.)

As soon as I said yes, he turned to his cohorts and called out, "Bobbie said yes!" At which point, there was a bit of a hubbub and some of the others decided join us. Eh?

Those that joined were four girls out of the eight in my team, plus another guy, which makes our group five girls (that includes me) and four guys.

As those who've read my Danny stories (and the comments) know, I'm very into pop music and I play the guitar. And I think I sing passably well - my sister said I sound like Gloria Estefan when I sing. (Don't tell me you don't know who Gloria Estefan is!) Anyway, hopefully, this'll help me to not make a fool of myself later tonight...

Well, that's it. Not much to tell about today again, but there might be later tonight. I'll try and post something about it tomorrow.

Wish me luck!

   

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