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- The office's team lunch tradition of ordering from the same restaurant every Friday finally ended when the place closed unexpectedly. Everyone was genuinely mourning the loss of their usual order.
- The office's annual survey results came back overwhelmingly positive this year. It was a genuine surprise given the general grumbling that had been audible in the break room all quarter long, right up until the results dropped.
- The office's annual budget season brought back the same spreadsheet argument as every year before. The same two departments disagreed on the same line item, right on schedule, down to the same meeting time slot.
- The office's annual talent show featured a surprise magic act from someone in accounting nobody expected to have any hidden hobbies at all, let alone genuinely impressive card tricks performed with real confidence.
- The office's shared spreadsheet accidentally got deleted by someone who immediately confessed. This spared everyone the usual mystery investigation that normally follows this exact kind of incident, right down to the finger-pointing.
- The company retreat's trust-fall exercise resulted in exactly zero actual falls. Since everyone quietly agreed beforehand it wasn't worth the risk, a rare moment of unanimous team consensus on literally anything.