[LeifCarrotson]

A clog in the machine? Like when an eggcorn gets jammed in the cogwheels and gears, I suppose...

I've worked at 3 small shops over the past 15 years (wow, 20 as a "young millenial"? You're busy!), and I'm on the older side of millenial...yes, cards get passed around, but no, flowers don't typically get sent out. There's a couple people who make sure that wedding anniversaries, employment anniversaries, birthdays etc. get mentioned at company meetings, most of us engineers shrivel under the spotlight. I have noticed that many of my coworkers glow when they get a compliment - "Take the time off, you deserve it after that hard work on the Acme Inc project", "Your services were rock solid and needed no maintenance while you were out for surgery", etc. but flowers? Cards? Don't care.

We DO make sure to send flowers and cards to the boomer-generation receptionists who pass the cards. I don't think the rest of us would care if the birthday cards stopped going around, but it's clearly of critical importance to those ladies.