they HAVE to be kidding...

My company recently sold a major asset to it's portfolio, which is why I was required to find a new job (which I have done, and I love, by the way!) The point is... this venture has been a huge investment to the company and they spent the past 5 years working on it and tyring to make it even more profitable.

Usually, when my company sells off a large portion of an asset they reward their employees (all the people that contributed to make the sale happen) with a token of their appreciation and a symbol that they can keep to remember their hard work on such a project. For the past few small sales I was involved with, I was given useless desk ornaments (glorified paperweights, really) but I thought for sure with the magnitude of this sale, my company would pull out the big guns and give us something much more superior... Boy was I was wrong.

They gave us a fake painting, with some really boring pictures (almost like stock photos) and some styalized text regarding the sale (for emphasis, I guess).

Seriously, they made like a million of these prints too, it couldn't have been cheap. Why didn't they just go buy us iPods instead, like we REALLY wanted!