Help!!! My Boss and Co-Workers keep slapping me on the head...
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I work for a company in San Francisco in a department of 10 people. About a year ago, one of my co-workers said it would be good luck to slap me on the head before going on a sales call to a potential client. I said, "Whatever!" and he slapped me on the head. A week later he got the deal with the client. He told everyone in the department that slapping me on the head was good luck. No one believed him - but a few weeks later he slapped me at a staff meeting with all of my co-workers and boss before he went on another sales call and he got the deal. Soon, the entire department was hitting me on the head before they went on sales calls and 99% of the time if they had hit me on the head - they got the deal.
Soon, word of my "magical head" spread throughout the company and people have been stopping by my cubicle to slap my head before turning in reports, seeing clients and even before hot dates on Friday night. One woman brought her daughter in to the office so she could slap my head before she submitted her college applications. Well, this was getting out of hand - so, I went to the HR department. The HR manager told me that as long as the slaps were "work related" and that I wasn't getting hurt or anything than it was OK.
A week ago at an all hands company meeting, the CEO gave me an "Appreciation Award" ($500 Gift Certificate) and he slapped me on the head in front of the entire company - saying something like "I hope we beat our forecasts this year."
I enjoy the attention but am worried that this will effect my job and future prospects at the company. What if my "head luck" run's out? Just last week I heard about a guy in accounts receivable who has an "elbow of good fortune" - What should I do?