No such thing as a free lunch?
One Friday after working in a lovely close knit firm for a few years, all the employees were asked to turn up to the posh Hotel down the road at 10:30 rather than at our usual Wernham Hoggesque 70's office block for an important announcement, we all turned up after our lie ins dresed in our finest wondering what it could be, rumours swirling aplenty. After coffe and biscuits we were ushered into a large room where we were informed that our ageing, paternalistic but lovable MD and owner had sold the company to a large soulless corporation (spit) for a few mill. We were told we would be "merging" with another company, there "may" be some restructuring and those still with jobs would have to relocate. To soften the blow we were provided with a buffet lunch with two bottles of wine on each table and the new HR department was on hand to deal with any issues about our redundancy. Understandably following this bombshell not everyone was in the mood to eat, and as we had all driven to the hotel we could not get drunk so there was loads of wine and buffet left over. I took it upon myself to liberate 12 bottles of (very nice) wine and three carrier bags of vol-au vents, canapes and sarnies. I had to ask our new masters as the hotel staff were reluctant to see all the booty dissapear. Yes I am a free loading cheapskate with no shame! I then headed over to my studenty friends big shared house and lo and behold - instant free mini party!

A lot more "freebies" were stripped from the company before the merger takever was complete.
(jmaxi returned again on, Fri 9 Nov 2007, 17:05, Reply)