John had been behind closed doors in his boss's office for over an hour, and his collegues were just starting to wonder what the boss was telling him when he finally emerged.

He walked out of the office, and one by one, he went over to the other workers, and started handing out pepermints to everyone.

"Here," he said to the first, "you can have the extra strong mints."

The next person was given a pack of soft mints, and the third received some chewing gum. Mint flavour, of course.

Finally, they could stand it no longer. "What on earth are you doing?!" they asked him.

"I'm doing my assign mints," he said.