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An e-mail video is generating plenty of comedic pathos these days around the offices of Publicis Groupe’s D’Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles, which will be dismantled by year’s end.

In the 94-second movie, which sources say originated in the U.K., tense staffers draw a supervisor out of his office for a word about whether they’ll be laid off. The manager nervously tells them he’s got “some good news and some bad news.” The bad news is the company will be taken over.

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