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- The company's new expense reporting software promised a five-minute process. My first submission took forty-five minutes and three separate attempts, mostly spent hunting for a receipt category that simply didn't exist.
- The office's new mentorship program paired every senior employee with a junior one. My mentee ended up teaching me more about the new software than I taught her about anything at all this quarter.
- The office's annual charity drive collected canned goods for a local food bank. Someone donated an entire case of a genuinely unpopular vegetable, and it became a running joke for the rest of the year.
- The office holiday party moved to a new venue this year with a much bigger budget than usual. Somehow the food ran out within the first hour, and the open bar became the only thing anyone remembered afterward.
- The annual office fantasy football league added a new rule this year requiring the last-place finisher to wear an embarrassing costume for a week. Someone's already lost with three weeks still left in the season.
- The office's summer Friday policy let everyone leave two hours early. But on the last Friday of the summer, an urgent meeting ran until the exact normal end time. It felt like a genuine betrayal by the universe.