🎄 Day 9 — Toy QC Meltdown: The One-Eyed Teddy Crisis

Alert: half the teddy bears rolling off the line are winking. Not cute—accidental. 👁️🐻

Apparently someone swapped the eye bin with “decorative buttons” and now we’ve got a colony of pirates ready for preschool. Adorable? Yes. Acceptable? HR says no.

🧵 Stitch Witchery (Gone Wrong)

QC says the seam team was “multitasking” during cocoa break. Translation: gossiping about Buddy and Sparkles while sewing eyeballs like they’re confetti. Results: 47 winks, 12 cross-eyed kings, 1 bear with a belly button where an eye should be.

📦 Recall? Rebrand? Spin It.

Marketing pitched “Limited Edition: Sassy Wink Bears.” Honestly, I respect the hustle. Logistics suggested eye patches. Now every bear looks ready to commandeer a gingerbread ship.

🔧 Fix-It Frenzy

We held an emergency “find the missing eyeballs” party. Found them… in the button bin… labeled “probably eyes?” I’m filing that under evidence.

Good news: the bears can see again. Bad news: I can never unsee the belly-eye. If a child screams on Christmas morning, I was nowhere near the stitching table.

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Stay shady,
– The Petty Elf 🧝‍♀️