"In you come" said Serena, the HR manager, "you'll love the team".
Jim wasn't so sure, but was very impressed by Uniqco's leaving card scheme. Every employee gets issued with a Leaving Card* on the day they join, which is kept by HR. Then, when an employee leaves they have to sign all of the leaving cards for people they're currently working with. That way, hey presto, when someone leaves Uniqco they get a leaving card signed not just by the new raft of current employees (who seem very nice), but by all the lovely people who were there when they joined, and they really liked.

*if the concept's unfamiliar, in a lot of work places, people are given a card when they leave signed by co-workers.
-- neilp, Jan 17 2008

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By the way, wack an apostrophe in "concepts" before my teeth curl back into my gums... it's like fingernails on a chalk board. <shudder>
-- theleopard, Jan 17 2008


People leave jobs?
-- vincevincevince, Jan 17 2008


Very clever. In fact, I think you could dispense with the need to have all your current co-workers sign it.
-- hippo, Jan 17 2008


Never let HR get in the way of friendships. -
-- DrCurry, Jan 17 2008


Ha ha, I've still got my set of novelty genital-decorated coffee mugs from the lovely finance team at Barclay's.

They're all the finance team I suppose...
-- theleopard, Jan 17 2008


This registry would also be useful in allowing HR to perform a statistical analysis of the most common leaving card messages, a list of the most popular being published as verboten, making everyone else more inventive with their comments.
-- calum, Jan 18 2008


"By the time you read this I will have gone. Thank you so much for sacking me.

Oh, about Anne, that wasn't a wind up"
-- skinflaps, Jan 18 2008


sorry [theleopard] I have no idea what I was doing there.
-- neilp, Jan 18 2008



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