http://cultureby.com/2008/06/watching-your-l.html This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:43:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://cultureby.com/2008/06/watching-your-l.html/comment-page-1#comment-1549 Peter Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:39:55 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=254#comment-1549 A client of mine once shifted divisions within a large corporation, and her old colleagues gave her an interesting surprise farewell gift. A week or so before she left, they (secretly) took a full-length photo of her, blew it up to life-size, cut it out, had it mounted onto cardboard, and then added another, transverse piece of cardboard to the base, so that the object would be self-standing. They then took this object to all the lady's usual working-day locations (a telesales office, a retail outlet, a client meeting, her regular coffee shop, etc), and made a video of her friends and associates at each location telling the object, standing in the lady herself, how much they would miss her, etc. The video, along with accompanying, life-size, self-standing, cardboard-mounted, cutout photograph, was a very nice farewell gift. A client of mine once shifted divisions within a large corporation, and her old colleagues gave her an interesting surprise farewell gift. A week or so before she left, they (secretly) took a full-length photo of her, blew it up to life-size, cut it out, had it mounted onto cardboard, and then added another, transverse piece of cardboard to the base, so that the object would be self-standing. They then took this object to all the lady’s usual working-day locations (a telesales office, a retail outlet, a client meeting, her regular coffee shop, etc), and made a video of her friends and associates at each location telling the object, standing in the lady herself, how much they would miss her, etc. The video, along with accompanying, life-size, self-standing, cardboard-mounted, cutout photograph, was a very nice farewell gift.

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