Kennedys new Sheffield office this week released - and then hastily recalled - a truly appalling music video.
Readers will recall that the new office was established to accommodate 70 leavers from Halliwells. To celebrate this brave new world, the video featured a cover of Queen's Don't Stop Me Now.
The video was, briefly, available on YouTube. As media attention snowballed, however, it was swiftly removed and is now listed as 'private'. Fortunately, RollOnFriday saved a copy, and can publish an edited summary.
The video begins with head honcho Sue Liversidge sitting on a sofa with a couple of colleagues. "Right, first day at Kennedys guys. Wonder how we're going to feel tonight?" Cue music. Liversidge gesticulates wildly, and oddly suggestively, and we're off.
A couple of bars into the song, and more colleagues join in and the horror begins in earnest. No member of staff has been left unscathed - but at least some have the decency to look thoroughly embarrassed by the car wreck facing them.
Intro over and more of the cast appear: jumping out of boxes, lying on top of filing cabinets, acting out carefully choreographed dance moves or just pretending to drink. No-one is safe, not even the security guard, as stoic gentlemen sit on the carpet pretending to be "a racing car passing by - like Lady Godiva!". Fortunately, they remain fully dressed as they weep inwardly for their careers and dignity.
Yet more acts preen for the camera, hamming it up whilst answering the phone or peeling an orange. Two employees are "atom bombs" as the lift behind them fills with gurning dancers. A tie is nonchalently flicked onto a shoulder - a "sex machine ready to reload" of course. Two aged retainers put on an astonishing display of axe grinding, neckties arranged around their foreheads.
A spokesman for Kennedys said that the video was a "piece of joyous internal exuberance" that was never intended for external viewing. That's something at least.
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Readers will recall that the new office was established to accommodate 70 leavers from Halliwells. To celebrate this brave new world, the video featured a cover of Queen's Don't Stop Me Now.
The video was, briefly, available on YouTube. As media attention snowballed, however, it was swiftly removed and is now listed as 'private'. Fortunately, RollOnFriday saved a copy, and can publish an edited summary.
The video begins with head honcho Sue Liversidge sitting on a sofa with a couple of colleagues. "Right, first day at Kennedys guys. Wonder how we're going to feel tonight?" Cue music. Liversidge gesticulates wildly, and oddly suggestively, and we're off.
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A couple of bars into the song, and more colleagues join in and the horror begins in earnest. No member of staff has been left unscathed - but at least some have the decency to look thoroughly embarrassed by the car wreck facing them.
Intro over and more of the cast appear: jumping out of boxes, lying on top of filing cabinets, acting out carefully choreographed dance moves or just pretending to drink. No-one is safe, not even the security guard, as stoic gentlemen sit on the carpet pretending to be "a racing car passing by - like Lady Godiva!". Fortunately, they remain fully dressed as they weep inwardly for their careers and dignity.
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Yet more acts preen for the camera, hamming it up whilst answering the phone or peeling an orange. Two employees are "atom bombs" as the lift behind them fills with gurning dancers. A tie is nonchalently flicked onto a shoulder - a "sex machine ready to reload" of course. Two aged retainers put on an astonishing display of axe grinding, neckties arranged around their foreheads.
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A spokesman for Kennedys said that the video was a "piece of joyous internal exuberance" that was never intended for external viewing. That's something at least.