Today was the last day for one of the people on my team at work, so I made and printed up this sign that said "In Memory of…" to mess with him.

We mounted it onto a cardboard box, put it on an easel like a funeral in the lobby our building. We then put the only flower we could find, a pack of candy cigarettes, and a plastic DVD lid filled with coins as if he died. Not only did some people in our company really think he died, apparently people in the company across the hall had a meeting to take up a collection to add to the pathetic pile of coins on the floor.

I had some flashbacks of emailing 40,000 addresses Vin’s email address when he quit at Burton, asking them to let him know how they felt about him leaving. A few minutes later I hear Vin cursing across the room as his inbox ultimately ended up with 4000 new emails. Guys offering him a couch to sleep on and the beer in their fridge, girls offering him a bed to sleep in.