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The Kosher Top 10

Top 10 ways you know you work at a Jewish Organization

by ilana Kobrin with support from esteemed colleague Meira Maierovitz Drazin.

NEW reader comments

10. When you wear a headband you hear people whisper "is that her hair, or is it a fall?" after you walk past them.

9. You spill your lunch all over yourself and your cubicle neighbors yell "MAZEL TOV."

8. There is a shamos box in the copy room.

7. People notice how many times per week you order in lunch, whom you order with, what exactly you're eating, and how much it cost.

6. The "director of human resources" tries to set you up on dates with 35 year old men who live in Queens.

5. The soda-pop cans that are supposedly for every one in the organization are always under lock and key in a "special fridge."

4. You have to (get to) shout in hebrew on the phone.

3. At least 4 people in your office are related to each other.

2. The only non-jews around the place work in the accounting department.

1. your salary reminds you of this lovely liturgical quote from the beginning of musaf: "ve kol me she oskim be tzarchei tizbur be emounah???????" HAKADOSH BARUCH HU YESHALEM!


Please send all comments, questions, and phone numbers to Ilana

READER Comments: 

From Mark Trencher, West Hartford, CT ... some are from the original list, but I've added some new ones:

20. At least 4 people in your office are related to each other.
19. You regularly hear people shouting in Hebrew on the phone.
18. There is a shamos box in the copy room.
17. There is a constitution (for non-profit organizations), but no one knows where it is.
16. Business plan, shmissness plan. Taxes, shmaxes.
15. Black coffee? What do I look like? An Episcopalian?
14. The soda cans that are supposedly for every one in the organization are always under lock and key in a "special fridge." (It is rumored that some of them only have a "K" on the label. Gevalt geshriggen!)
13. No two employees have the exact same benefits plan.
12. Half the senior managers have masters degrees in Jewish Education and Jewish History. One person has a degree in business, but no one listens to him because he does not have smicha.
11. The Board gets to decide whether the 1 p.m. mincha minyan davens nusach Ashkenaz or nusach Sefard. The "Rav" of the minyan davens off his Palm Pilot. Everyone else is jealous.
10. If you (or your wife) is in her ninth month of pregnancy, your medical insurance company is about to be changed with one dayıs notice.
9. Microsoft spellcheck is useless because most words in memos are only vaguely reminiscent of English. Takeh!
9a. No one knows the difference between "its" and "itıs."
9b. "Takeh" is a valid adjective. Or adverb. If you have smicha, you are permitted to use the word "gradeh."
8. Every job description is at least 10 years out of date. Or lost. Preferably, both.
7. Every employee gradeh carries the sales tax exempt number in their wallet. If an employee pays sales tax, it is reported to the Board for disciplinary action.
6. There is no Board secretary, because no one wanted the job. So Board members rotate and take turns in not writing up the minutes.
5. You get one dayıs notice to prepare your departmentıs annual budget. (Only applies to very sophisticated operations; the rest do not, of course, have a budget.) Your budget is approved six months later, three months into the new fiscal year.
4. Except for administrative and clerical staff, everyone else gets paid on the basis of how much money they need. Or say they need. or want.
3. There are many lengthy meetings, but no decisions are ever reached.
2. Men employed for the organization all (allegedly) have smicha and are considered professional staff. Women employed by the organization are considered support staff, but actually run the organization while the men run back and forth having meetings and looking busy.
... and the #1 sign is ...
1. It is commonplace and acceptable to refer to oneıs workplace/employer/organization as "Chelm"!


From Meira Maierovitz Drazin

--every lay leader you speak to mentions that they have a grandson who's single
--callers can listen to cheesy Israeli music while on hold
--even the non-Jewish staff wish everyone a Shabbat Shalom
--everyone immediately checks the Holiday Calendar to see how many Jewish holidays fall on weekdays
--one day someone is a security guard, the next day he has an office and an email is sent out welcoming the new "campaign associate."

From tobiqua@yahoo.com 
A sign you work for a Jewish organization (have you heard these?):

"...If you want to speak to Shimmy, press 1. If you want to speak to Shaindy Birnbaum, press 2. For Shaindy Spitzer, press 3. For Shaindy Eisenbach, press 4. For Shaindy Rivky Lefkowitz, press 5. For Shaindy Sury Schwartsberger, press 6. For all other Shaindys, press 7. For the directory of Yitzhaks, variations, and diminutives, press 8. To speak to a Moishe, and for all other inquiries, please press zero now or wait for the operator."

-tk

from Rachel Wolf: my additions Top 10 on how you know you work at a jewish org.

1) You can leave your wallet out in plain sight and never have it stolen but
don't even think of leaving your lunch unattended
2) All inter-office emails end with Tizku L'Mitzvos
3) Classes are given for women titled "Are women smarter than men?" and "Can
women learn Talmud?" and you're pretty sure there will be nothing PC about
the answer.
4) People named Chumi, Keseal and Shaindy ask you how to pronounce Rachel
5) The number of mitzvot in the torah, the first three numbers of all phone
extensions and your bi-monthly paycheck are all the same number
6) "Girl" is a term that refers to any female between the age of 2 and 65.
7) The allure of the office blood drive is the free lunch
8) During sexual harassment training sessions the men ask what to do if they
are uncomfortable that women are wearing clothing that is too short or too
tight
9) Your high school schedule of early dismissal on short Fridays, short
short Fridays and Rosh Chodesh Fridays actually applies at work too.
10) You get questions at work like, "If food has a small OU, does that make
it less kosher than something with a big OU?"

From Jonathan Gewirtz
Meetings scheduled around Mincha/Conference room busy same time each day.

"Mincha!" yelled out at approximately the same decibel-level as "Fire!"

Friday afternoon is eerily quiet after 1PM.

Half the staff came from or is related to someone at IDT

What's a Holiday Bonus?!?

JACS, Jewish Alcoholics, Chemically dependent persons and Significant others

From Chaya Lung

JACS, Jewish Alcoholics, Chemically dependent persons and Significant others

Your doorman greets you in Yiddish every morning.
The office fridge is stocked with New Square milk.

Board members ask if you are "touchable," then rumple your hair anyway if you say no.

You constantly see your coworkers socially, and not on purpose.

All office events are catered by the same kosher restaurant over and over again, until you never want to eat their food, smell their food or think about their food again.

From Ephraim Shapiro

You have off on Jewish Holidays, Legal Holidays, Christian Holdays, African Holidays, Canadian Holdiays, Calendar Holdays...

You work with the vying champions of the "how many phone numbers can you fit on one post-it note" contest.

No two pieces of office furniture match.

From Shoshanna Shapiro, Bucharest, Romania:

Hey Ilana!
This is Shoshanna, one of the Jewish Service Corps volunteers in Romania....
I saw your top ten on Bang it out...very cute, very funny.

You can tell the Galena twins that they have a devout following in Bucharest.

take care,
Shoshanna

From Suri Grussgott Northeast Philly, PA:

*Anytime there is food left out for people, there is usually a sign saying, "Not Kosher".

*Women who take maternity leave never come back

* On Sukkos, there is a lulav and esrog in the conference room with a sheet on how to fulfil the mitzva.

*Boro Park and Monsey girls make up the IT dept., working to make money so they can have enough to soon B"H support a kollel husband

* Israeli news stations can be heard from people's computers

* Pictures of the snow in Yerushalyim decorate cubes

* Emails are sent telling you what the time difference in Israel this time of year is.

* You have heavy security in your building

*You get letters urging you to take jesus into your heart...