Most unusual item found?

Hi all, part of my morning has been spent clearing out the office where I am currently based in anticipation of a pending office move and I have been sitting at a desk where various individuals have come and departed, leaving behind an array of personal and work items.  I'm sure many other colleagues have done the same or had to clear out the workspace for individuals who have been escorted from the workplace or perhaps threw their toys out of the pram and refused to return.  And this got me thinking ...  the items I have come across today have not been particularly noteworthy - a broken necklace, memory sticks, pain relief, software disks, sunglasses - however one item caught my eye: a pair of chop sticks although I can't work out why they would be in an office ...


So, if you have been tasked with a similar clear out please do share your experiences of what prompted the clear out, any unusual items found and perhaps if (and how) you reunited them with their owner?  :-)

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  • While working as an interim HR Manager a new manager brought to me a large envelope of things he had cleared out of the desk he had "inherited".  The envelope contained a pair of lycra cycling shorts, unwashed, well worn, thinning in places and a quantity of divorce correspondence.

     We looked no further. The envelope was addressed to the ex-employee (his last known address) so we sealed it up and sent it off to the post room to be sent off 2nd class. 

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  • While working as an interim HR Manager a new manager brought to me a large envelope of things he had cleared out of the desk he had "inherited".  The envelope contained a pair of lycra cycling shorts, unwashed, well worn, thinning in places and a quantity of divorce correspondence.

     We looked no further. The envelope was addressed to the ex-employee (his last known address) so we sealed it up and sent it off to the post room to be sent off 2nd class. 

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