Random Stuff you get given at work

Lump

Bit of a random thread, but over the past couple of weeks I''ve been given a couple of odd things in a place I'm contracted to work at.

2 weeks a go, a bloke walked up and handed me a red Yo Yo, then today the same bloke turned up with a silver Bauble and gave me and the person next to me. So what, if any, odd things have you been given at work, by work.


John

KTRIC

I got 2 nice bottles of wine on Friday

miamee

Just got a present from a printer we use, addressed to myself & another girl who both deal with them. Its a calendar...to share...!? And it's broken (there were instructions on how to construct it )

Thanks guys :rolleyes:

Rabies

Wine, Red Bull crash helmet, concert crew t-shirts, stickers and pens.

Can't think of anything else I have got from work over my time there apart from abuse and stress.

Mrs_Doyle

This year I haven't done too badly, as well as my Xmas bonus I was given a bottle of wine, 2 boxes of chocolates and a belleek(think that's how you spell it) photo frame.
Last year, however, in my old job, INSTEAD of a Christmas Bonus I was given a bottle of wine, that I happen to know was left over from the crappy xmas party, and a photo of the boss and the staff. I mean, honestly, what the hell did he think I was going to do with that? Hang it over the fireplace? Or put it on my bedside locker??
I hope Santa brings him a big sack of coal this year, and beats him around the head with it. Miserable Bast@rd!

dr.bollocko

I got a teeny ATM machine. It counts up the money as you put it in! and it also makes a tiny electronic money tingling sound.
Random, but still the coolest part of my work day.
I once got a bag of nappies for a secret santa, and also a teddybear having what can only be described as bum sex with a bemused looking sheep.
The intrigueing part about this teddy was that he was wearing wellies, and the sheeps two rear legs were also tucked into the wellies.
That, to me, indicates a certain amount of consent on the sheep's part.

Miguel_Sanchez

Headaches.

Lump

A headache is hardly random. When I work in my normaly building we get "Customer Service Awards"...... basically if someone responds well to the work you've done, you get given a bottle of wine. It used to be £30 and a bottle of wine before they went cheap.

Bottle of wine is fine you might think, apart from the fact that wine is infact the piss of satan. I hate the stuff yet they still give it to me, how hard would it be to get a 6 pack?!

We don't a bonus this year, because we didn't make enough money

John

Kolodny

In the last week I've been given a bottle of Prosecco, a cinamon scented candle in a tin, a small elf (at least I think that's what it is) wearing a sack cloth hat and box of little coloured pieces of glass, which apparently are supposed to go into a vase of flowers or a dish with a candle in it.

Naked Lepper

I get given abuse and work and then more work

They throw in the odd plaque that says 'One Company One Team' and even on occasion we might get some clothing with the company logo on the front.

Pffft

scojones

I once got a tin of dog food when I worked in Tescos. Everyone did, it was our Christmas bonus.

petes

Wine last year. So far got a small calendar this year.

Archeron

Lump wrote:

Bottle of wine is fine you might think, apart from the fact that wine is infact the piss of satan. I hate the stuff yet they still give it to me, how hard would it be to get a 6 pack?!

I used to work in a sales place that gave incentives on certain days, and they ended up bringing in the usual bottles of wine for everybody else, and a tray of Budweiser for me. I have to admit though, you really feel like an alco walking out with your arms full of loose cans of bud. (you only won one at a time, so they had to break them out of the rings)

This year, nobody has been arsed about putting up a christmas tree, so somebody gave me four red plastic twig things covered in berries jammed into a used ballygowan cup full of paper balls. Its festive, in its own weird way.

azezil

A flash card reader and a ship in a bottle....

Lump

Naked Lepper wrote:

I get given abuse and work and then more work

They throw in the odd plaque that says 'One Company One Team' and even on occasion we might get some clothing with the company logo on the front.

Pffft

.... change job

easy_beez

I got a CD of an ABBA tribute band once.

I'm a 25 year old male.

Splinter

got a jar of honey last year...

Mossy Monk

i get random clothing with the company logo on it, none of it would fit my right leg

Lump

easy_beez wrote:

I got a CD of an ABBA tribute band once.

I'm a 25 year old male.

and a homosexual obviously

rmacm

When I was on work placement one of the PM's used to bring in cakes and sweeties every so often and hand them out to people.....lol she was my favourite PM.

Cheers
Rory

beans

A bound copy of 'The Manual' by Bill Drummond.

OK so it was printed and bound by myself, and given to myself by me. But there's 0 likelihood of being given anything in work this xmas, so I think I deserved it

JackieChan

A tray of Budweiser and two rugby shirts-really nice too and they actually fit!!

irlirishkev

Corporate Calander
Corporate baseball cap
Corporate umbrella.
Juggling balls
Tickets to a match in Landsdowne.
Couple of bottles of wine.
Hundreds of business cards, despite having no need for them.
Lots and lots of chocolates.
There are other things but I can't remember them right now..

Gaspode

Grief.
Spanish football shirt.
2 broken computer mouses (meece? mices?)
Pens that stop working after a week.
Digital clock you can stick to a window.
More grief.

Stephen

Couple of supplier-branded day-calendars, crappy pens, coasters etc. We also got a remote control F1 car from HP -- the catch being that you don't get the controller for it unless you endure their sales spiel.

tSubh Dearg

The temp agency I was working for sent me a selection box in the post. And another group that I do a postal survey for sent me a 2007 diary, which I gave to my mum.

Lump

Lump wrote:

and a homosexual obviously

Oh come on... be fair!

Latent homosexuality at least..

I get alot of pens. Though they generally don't get given out to us ...

Nalz

does shít fall under this category??

I get cornflakes out of canteen for breakfast, havta pay for them though


Oh I robbed a pen once, and some blue tac

Sleepy

Nothing. In three and a half years, I've yet to receive a thing from work aside from my paycheque

me and the biz

This Christmas the staff were given a pen and a key-ring with the logo on it to "show appreciation for the hard work we've put in this year." Obviously don't think we put in much hard work.

_blank_

The sack.

My hole.

Red Hand

A coolerbag. Without a zip. That does not cool. In Winter.

Mine is staying at work, even after whenever I leave for good.

lost_soul

First time i worked in one company - umbrella, pens, usb docking station, memory stick and €100 all when i left (i was only working there for 3 months)

When i came back to that same job - bottle of wine, box of chocs and then €200 when i left it again, (after another 3 months)

New jobs - five selection boxs....

embee

Last Christmas Day I did overtime, and they gave us

A Selection Box
A Chicken Tikka Sandwich
A bottle of Coke
A slice of Christmas Cake
€125 bonus.

I'm not working this Christmas Day, but I can't imagine that there'll be anything at all given to people who do.. company where I work is making an announcement about "cost rationalisation" at the end of January.

Oh, and earlier this year, they came around our desks and gave us all "gifts". There were plungers, gardening gloves, scissors and a chamois cloth for cleaning cars. It was a big gimmick - basically they were trying to get us to get our friends and family who had small businesses to join the company... the "gifts" were representational of different jobs. Such bullshít.

Is it any wonder they're doing audits on their spending?

Black Swan

I wonder how many of us, when given something we really don't want or need, thank the person, then give it to another? For example, at work people keep giving me cakes, cookies, and candy maybe cause I am thin, but I don't eat desserts, so I give these to others.

Archeron

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

I wonder how many of us, when given something we really don't want or need, thank the person, then give it to another? For example, at work people keep giving me cakes, cookies, and candy maybe cause I am thin, but I don't eat desserts, so I give these to others.

I used to do that when I got loads of stuff. A few years ago, I was delivering pressies for the company I worked for, but I majorly messed it up and ended up wiht loads of stuff left over in my car. I had tins of roses/celebrations, wooden gift boxes of wine, bottles of whiskey, all that type of stuff. I didnt need much myself, so I gave pretty much everything away. It was cool, because my brother was struggling with bills at the time so didnt have much in himself, and I turned up on his doorstep with a boot full of goodies! I gave away about €300 worth of stuff to friends and family (and a few pressies to one of those food collections outside supermarkets too).

Busterpuss

A broken stapler

Lump

Archeron wrote:

I used to do that when I got loads of stuff. A few years ago, I was delivering pressies for the company I worked for, but I majorly messed it up and ended up wiht loads of stuff left over in my car. I had tins of roses/celebrations, wooden gift boxes of wine, bottles of whiskey, all that type of stuff. I didnt need much myself, so I gave pretty much everything away. It was cool, because my brother was struggling with bills at the time so didnt have much in himself, and I turned up on his doorstep with a boot full of goodies! I gave away about €300 worth of stuff to friends and family (and a few pressies to one of those food collections outside supermarkets too).

SO you stole.... Baby Jesus would be so proud.

Rockiemalt

in my numerous studenty type jobs, pens, usb keys, aload of instant coffee, a pair of really nice handknitted mittens, hot chocolate sachets, half price speakers, the rte guide, 2 free horse riding lessons, when i left my summer job we have parties with lots of madly colouredy sweets, ice lollies during the summer...

Hagar

Absofuckinglutely nothing.
I work for the most miserable bastard you could imagine.:(

easy_beez

Lump wrote:

and a homosexual obviously

Yea i could see how you would think that alright....All i can say is "we all got one".

Wish i got some real hetrosexual pressies like a Red Yo Yo and Silver Baubles (ref to opening post in this thread).

:rolleyes:

iguana

I used to work for Chorus during the time the were in negotiations with Channel 4 about carrying E4. So C4 sent all the chorus staff a little cardboard coffin with 6 wine gum feet inside it.

Lump

easy_beez wrote:

Yea i could see how you would think that alright....All i can say is "we all got one".

Wish i got some real hetrosexual pressies like a Red Yo Yo and Silver Baubles (ref to opening post in this thread).

:rolleyes:

I was being sarcastic.....

Canis Lupus

Hagar wrote:

Absofuckinglutely nothing.
I work for the most miserable bastard you could imagine.:(

Self employed?

Hagar

Yes. How did you know?

eviecarwash

I worked in a dairy company years ago,long gone now. I got a carton of cream as my Christmas bonus - no joke. An operator came into the lab with a crate of cream and we took one each. My mum put it in the mash on Christmas day!