…when all through the office
Developers scurry to finish up projects.
Engineers work on servers with care
Fixing them on Christmas just wouldn’t be fair.

The database team takes care of our data
While Matt happily works on a project beta.
Dan isn’t here today, though probably working
His brain never stops, always he’s lurking.

When out of the engineering cave there arose such a wail
A project server RAID card detected drive fail.
In poured the office to see what’s the noise
Surly Jewish manager dismissed them with poise.

Get out of our cave and get back to work!
Shouted the sometimes grumpy Hebrew jerk.
A short time later, lunch did arrive
Into Schmidt’s food did everyone dive.

Full bellies have now brought us all down a tone
That’s good for Michelle because she’s on the phone.
Must get annoying how loud we sometimes are
Surprised she hasn’t run one of us down with her car.

Chip just left to visit a client
Probably fixing a BlackBerry, RIM’s devices can be so defiant!
Hope he’s back soon because he’s auditing our backups
Gotta make sure we’re never playing catch-up.

Mary’s around here somewhere, she takes such great care
Keeping after Innova can be quite an affair.
A good office manager is a wonderful thing
Unless you’re on her bad side, boy can that sting.

I have good news for Jon, he’s gonna go crazy
Apple finally shipped his dual-link DVI thing after five weeks, so lazy.
Bet he’ll be in my office in two minutes or less
As soon as I hit the “publish” button, he’s gonna come to my desk.

Chad’s on IM, doesn’t live here anymore
Moved to Oregon where there’s ducks galore.
Having a tex problem, now I gotta fix
Should wrap this up anyway, running out of sweet limericks.

I mentioned the Jew, the surly Hebrew
He is me, happy Chanukah to you.
Even though you’re all schmucks, I wish you this greeting
I love all you people, at least until our next meeting.