Ralph the Elf Finds a Job

Hi! I'm Ralph the Elf. I'm pretty low on the tree at Santa's Workshop so this Christmas I was sent down south to Silicon Valley to do lobby duty at one of those indistinguishable hi-tech firms. You know, one of those DOT COMs clogging the information super highway. All day long I hung out in that lobby, watching those young annoying rich software geeks go by, coming in late, leaving early, and completely ignoring me.

Time for a change.

I decided to head to the mall, 'cause I figured, well, it's Christmas and what better place for an elf to find work? I know a lot about Christmas gifts.

They were hiring everywhere! But I was too short for everything. Something about reaching the shelves. I decided that people were discriminating against my elf status. Maybe a change of clothes would help.

I had to go to the kiddie section to find anything that would fit! No one's going to take me seriously in this crap? This was not going so well.

Uh. No.