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{{g}}Exit music for a film: the last great parlour game of multinational life. The coda to the [[farewell]], wherein a big card and an envelope stuffed with loose change and ultra-low [[denomination]] notes is circulating for some departing soul you vaguely know from accounts.  
{{g}}Exit music for a film: the last great parlour game of multinational life. The coda to the [[farewell]], wherein a big card and an envelope stuffed with loose change and ultra-low [[denomination]] notes is circulating for some departing soul you vaguely know from accounts.  


The key is to sign, donate a crumpled fiver and flip quickly: no one wants to get stuck with the card late on a Friday, wherein an irate [[group secretary]] will hound you to return it on pain of evisceration — or worse, will ''fail'' to be on your case, leaving you with the problem of what to do with the blessed thing over the weekend. A hot potato of derisory but still, from the perspective of [[money had and received]] or even [[fraud]], criminally significant value and which, in these days of [[clear desk policy|clear desk policies]] and the like, it is signally hard to get rid of: you can't just toss it on some poor random’s chair ([[compliance]] breach) much less drop it in an internal mail tray (they don't exist any more), so you become some kind of [[Constructive|constructive trustee]].
The key is to sign, donate a crumpled fiver and flip quickly: no one wants to get stuck with the card late on a Friday, wherein an irate [[group secretary]] will hound you to return it on pain of evisceration — or worse, will ''fail'' to be on your case, leaving you with the problem of what to do with the blessed thing over the weekend. A hot potato of derisory but still, from the perspective of [[money had and received]] or even [[fraud]], criminally significant value and which, in these days of [[clear desk policy|clear desk policies]] and the like, it is signally hard to get rid of: you can’t just toss it on some poor random’s chair ([[compliance]] breach) much less drop it in an internal mail tray (they don’t exist any more), so you become some kind of [[Constructive|constructive trustee]].


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*[[Farewell]]
*[[Farewell]]