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- 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.
- 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.