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Gotta love these meetings. I mean, they're just a great concept. The staff is abused and exploited most of the year. We're understaffed, underfunded, overworked and short of resources. But we have a quarterly meeting that makes it all better.

A recognition meeting. I mean, sure, we all know what we look like, of course, but this is a chance for management to get a glimpse of us before returning to the ivory towers. Naturally, such a meeting can not interfere with normal operations, so it's held after normal work hours. We're naturally required to attend.

We're not a huge division of the company. Call it 40 staff and 10 managers. Yes, you read the proportion correctly. So, after bringing our division up out the red, reducing operational errors by 95%, expanding our services, and opening up new revenue streams, you'd think they'd be happy with us.

They are. Kinda. Mostly, they seem to have called the meeting to jerk off in front of us. The entire proceeding was one manager giving certificates to each other, followed by a reading of the significant accomplishments that they're taking credit for. Hell, one of them was so touched by the award, she broke down and cried tears of joy. Of the 40 witnesses... er... staff, 2 got awards. But all 10 managers did. It's really quite incredible.

Have I ever mentioned how much I hate corporate culture?