The company I retired from always said, raises were based on good annual reviews, and then, at the end of the year they would say there’s no money in the budget for raises nobody’s getting a raise. It was such an exercise in futility.
Many years ago, I was living in Norway, working for the American Embassy and I had an American size stove in my kitchen. When Thanksgiving day came a lot of Americans who had Norwegian stoves, were calling me up and asking me if they could use my oven to roast their bird because it didn’t fit in the Norwegian stoves
I had jingle elf socks. They caused confusion til the bells fell off.