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Everybody in the building was just summoned to a meeting, ostensibly to discuss the quarterly results. When we actually got there, it turned out that this was a transparent fiction and the real purpose was to give a leaving present to one of those behind-the-scenes organiser types without whom any company would fall apart in short order. Presumably lying about the purpose of the meeting was in order to make the presentation a surprise.

This is all very well and rather sweet, but the guy who sits next to me calculates that using up 10 minutes of time from each of 300 employees comes to 50 man-hours - well over a week's work. If I were so beloved by my company that they were willing to spend 50 man-hours on doing something nice for me when I left, I think I'd prefer to just get the extra week's holiday!