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- The office's new hire training video, unchanged for years, still referenced a software system that had been retired long before most current employees even started working there, a running joke by now.
- The office's annual holiday potluck sign-up sheet got passed around a week early this year. This resulted in a genuinely balanced spread of dishes instead of the usual six desserts and nothing else.
- The office's new hire orientation included a scavenger hunt around the building to learn where everything is located. It turned out to be more useful than any actual training document ever was.
- The office's shared calendar showed an all-day event simply labeled 'meeting,' with no further detail. This led to genuine confusion until someone finally tracked down who'd actually scheduled the mysterious thing.
- The office's team building exercise this quarter involved building the tallest tower out of spaghetti and marshmallows. And the accounting department's entry collapsed spectacularly in the final ten seconds, live.
- The office's monthly newsletter finally got a genuine reader response this month, a single reply asking a legitimate follow-up question. The whole team treated it as a small, genuine triumph.