In the USA and maybe in big corporations worldwide, as soon as anyone is informed that they are to be "Let go" or (in English) sacked; the company security guards stand over them while they clear their desks and leave the building, This is to avoid sabotage and theft by the disgruntled employee.
In the USA and maybe in countries worldwide, as soon as a president or (in English) prime minister is voted out of office, the outgoing official is allowed to hang on for months; giving them and their staff the opportunity to install carefully constructed pitfalls for their successors and carry out subtle sabotage by means of remaining legislative acts and the repeal or modification of existing laws of the land.
- or am I just being paranoid?
DominicGee
Maybe, but in Britain the outgoing PM leaves on the night of the election. But that is true, I expect many popular bills are being quietly pushed through in the Whitehouse as we speak in the hope that Obama will have to repeal them. Clinton did that while waiting for Bush to move in too.