This is horrible. I'm at a retirement “party” that the company I work for is throwing for a person who worked at this factory for 30 years.
Listening to the executives try to find nice things to say about someone they barely know and glamorizing how much of an “impact” this person had is cringe. The jokes are cringe. Listening to someone struggle to stay how meaningful 3 decades of work at a warehouse is painful. Now the executive asked anyone to share funny stories from the time they worked with this person, and the silence from the crowd of people here is brutal.
30 years and this is it.
We got sandwiches, and this person got a potted plant.
I hope I die in my sleep before I have to be the focus of a retirement party.