Responsibility is always a two-edged sword

[breakinglight11]

I was just entrusted with the master key to the whole office. That means I can go anywhere I like and get in anytime I want under my own power, so it feels pretty good that they trust me enough to let me be the keeper of it. I like being deemed worthy to handle things.

On the downside, however, since I'm to keep it with me at all times, I just know that this means that someday the president of the company is going to call me on a Saturday and ask me to come let him in, and it will be in the middle of a larp where I'm playing a cat or a fairy or a swamp monster or something, and I will have to go down there and he'll see me in my weird-ass costume and I can kiss whatever professional image I've built up goodbye. :-P ;-)

Comments

[valleyviolet.livejournal.com]

"Well, this is embarrassing, you called while I was at a friend's costume party." works pretty well. Then it's something to laugh about rather than "you were doing WHAT?" ;)

[breakinglight11.livejournal.com]

Heehee, yeah, that would work. I also find that an enormous number of things become totally normal when you say, "It's for a play!"

[nennivian.livejournal.com]

I came into the situation today when I had to explain to two of my coworkers/bosses that I LARPed. I was willing to do so, but I had no idea what the response would be. It turns out, one of them was already familiar with LARPing, and she helped me explain it to the other one, who is my mother's age. The other one thought it sounded like so much fun that she was asking how one gets access to LARPS and if there were LARPs that could be run at a party. The conversation ended with both of them agreeing that we should have dress-up days at work. Period clothing one day and formal clothing another, or what have you. I'm pretty excited.
Point of story: maybe your coworkers are geekier/more imaginative than you think.
(This probably should have been an independent entry in my own journal, but it was just do relevant that it spilled out here.)

[breakinglight11.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, I liked reading it! Yeah, sometimes people surprise you and actually do take an interest in unusual things! It's always nice to discover that, and now that I think about it, it's happened to me a handful of times as well.

Also, yay, dressup days!