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- The company's annual budget presentation ran forty-five minutes over its scheduled hour, mostly due to one extended tangent about a chart nobody quite understood but everyone nodded along to anyway.
- The office's annual holiday party moved to a Friday afternoon this year instead of an evening. This resulted in a noticeably more subdued event that ended by 5pm with everyone quietly relieved to be home early.
- The office's shared printer finally got replaced after years of jamming constantly. And the collective relief among the team was, genuinely, more noticeable than any actual project milestone that quarter.
- The office's annual charity 5k had a surprisingly competitive turnout this year, with three departments unofficially racing each other for bragging rights that nobody actually remembered agreeing to defend in the first place.
- 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.