Cary office hosted anniversary event yearly. AC, PS, YG would drive down. There would be games for only these 3 ppl and all the other poor employees watched the rich highly paid upper management have fun, and by watching them, the Cary employees filled their heart with joy and felt blessed! Easy guess as to who in Cary was responsible for that decision!
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Even I thought it was odd. It went on till 2011. Riverbed bought OPNET in 2012. AC was let go few months later.
With all due respect, the Cary office culture was/is much different from that of Bethesda. When OPNET acquired Make Systems in Cary, it was devastating because many of the staff were axed (sound familiar?). There was a series of adverse events that followed the acquisition that didn't help Cary's morale. The anniversary party was initially a way for the Cary office to blow off steam and to build bridges. Over time it morphed, but it was never ever regarded as a "suck-up" event. The party was organized by a committee of people in the office, for the whole office. Everyone participated in some way. When a enough time had elapsed after the Make System's acquisition, the event was discontinued.