My first computer was in the mid-90s. It was a Commodore 64 and it was exclusively for playing Frogger on a floppy disk.
First phone was in 1999 or 2000, my older sister’s hand-me-down, believe it was a Nokia 2110. It was a brick phone with stationary antenna.
It’s similar in Polish where you’re welcome (proszę bardzo) literally translates to “please very much”.
Not to mention having things done precisely the way I like. Reminds me of the black mirror “White Christmas” episode where they were creating digital clones to act as personal assistants.
There’s already a couple great suggestions offered here as alternatives to the harmful balloon idea. I just want to say thank you to OP for being thoughtful enough to ask the question in the first place. The world needs more people like you.
I work in HR too. My last company (startup) I was bascially the HR and IT department combined and it royally sucked. Also a rif refugee!