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Work secret Santa

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    #32
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    A packet of Denny Rashers.


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    #33
    Hector Bellend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    gary glitter calendar


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    #34
    SaatanaArctica
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭SaatanaArctica


    Estrellita wrote: »
    SaatanaArctica wrote: »
    Novelty mug is a pretty standard work secret santa item.

    These gifts are ghastly, the mug is not funny, or original.

    It's worth adding the extra money for a useable voucher. You cannot possibly know what your receivers interests are. I received a mug as a secret santa gift in the past. It never made it out of the building.
    It's not supposed to be funny or original. It's supposed to be standard to get you by if you don't know what to get.


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    #35
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    Witchie wrote: »
    Started a new job just over 2 weeks ago and we are having our Christmas party next Wednesday. People have to buy a gift and it will be randomly given out.

    My problem is I have no clue what to buy.

    I work in a tech company. The budget had been set at anything above 20 ringett (€4!) and as 99.9% of the people that work there are strict muslims, alcohol is not an option.

    HELP

    Something with an Irish theme?


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    #36
    Witchie
    Registered Users Posts: 5,597 ✭✭✭Witchie


    Don Kiddick wrote: »
    Just give them the gift of you witchie, it's all any malay man...or woman could possibly want

    You are too sweet. That said I found out today that the only guy who caught my eye is married with 2 kids. Dammit.
    Ulysses Gaze wrote: »
    Something with an Irish theme?

    I would if I could find something here in time. We have to hand them to the organisers on Monday and the party is on Wednesday. Aghhh.....think will just have to be totally unoriginal then.


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    #37
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    Witchie wrote: »
    You are too sweet. That said I found out today that the only guy who caught my eye is married with 2 kids. Dammit.



    I would if I could find something here in time. We have to hand them to the organisers on Monday and the party is on Wednesday. Aghhh.....think will just have to be totally unoriginal then.

    Where are you based in Malaysia? KL?


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    #38
    Witchie
    Registered Users Posts: 5,597 ✭✭✭Witchie


    Ulysses Gaze wrote: »
    Where are you based in Malaysia? KL?

    Yes....do you have some help for me?


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    #39
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    Witchie wrote: »
    Yes....do you have some help for me?

    Let me see....


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    #40
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    For years, I've just reused the present I recieve the previous year as this year's gift.

    Job's Oxo.


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    #41
    Grayson
    Registered Users Posts: 16,155 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    We have to do a secret Santa too.

    However we also have to write a note to a random person saying thanks for being great.


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    #42
    Witchie
    Registered Users Posts: 5,597 ✭✭✭Witchie


    Grayson wrote: »
    We have to do a secret Santa too.

    However we also have to write a note to a random person saying thanks for being great.

    That's a lovely idea, but since have only spoken to about 5 out of the 25 people in the office (we have 3 different projects going on and I only work on one so have no reason to talk to the others and too busy trying to cram a whole day's work into 4 hours.)


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    #43
    thelad95
    Registered Users Posts: 7,812 ✭✭✭thelad95


    Very thinly veiled ‘I work in Malaysia’ thread.


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    #44
    Witchie
    Registered Users Posts: 5,597 ✭✭✭Witchie


    thelad95 wrote: »
    Very thinly veiled ‘I work in Malaysia’ thread.

    I don't do thinly anything love. :p


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    #45
    Don Kiddick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭Don Kiddick


    Witchie wrote: »
    I don't do thinly anything love. :p

    https://youtu.be/gL4Vf2FLtq8

    :D


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    #46
    Witchie
    Registered Users Posts: 5,597 ✭✭✭Witchie


    Don Kiddick wrote: »
    https://youtu.be/gL4Vf2FLtq8

    :D

    How did you get up 11 floors to video me through the window?

    Mods....stalker alert! :D


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    #47
    jack hackett
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 155 ✭✭jack hackett


    You can never go wrong with a candle, used in all religions, save offending anyone


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    #48
    beetlebailey
    Registered Users Posts: 207 ✭✭beetlebailey


    Witchie wrote: »
    That's a lovely idea, but since have only spoken to about 5 out of the 25 people in the office (we have 3 different projects going on and I only work on one so have no reason to talk to the others and too busy trying to cram a whole day's work into 4 hours.)

    I'm in the same boat. He's the only Muslim in the company and I've no idea what to get. He usually buy each other somthing funny or pointless. Don't know how he'd feel about that. I was thinking something Irish like Guinness, or Denny rashers and sausages. Then I thought somthing more religious would be more appropriate like a nativity scene or maybe a shaving set. Think socks might be safest bet.


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    #49
    Don Kiddick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭Don Kiddick


    Witchie wrote: »
    How did you get up 11 floors to video me through the window?

    Mods....stalker alert! :D

    It's amazing what a motivated man is capable of!


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    #50
    mariaalice
    Registered Users Posts: 12,390 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    Tesco has a mug with a picture of a kitkat on it and a pack of 6 kitkat in it, perfect gift its cheap useful and its got chocolate bars as well.


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    #51
    darkdubh
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    Can't you opt out of this secret santa thing?


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    #52
    coffee_cake
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    if it were in ireland i'd suggest a bunch of stuff from flying tiger
    but you aren't
    that's the end of my story


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    #53
    Miss Demeanour
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,383 ✭✭✭Miss Demeanour


    I hate the whole secret santa thing having received a hugely innappropriate 'gift' last year.
    But doing the idea correctly and for someone you dont know and on a small budget.....cant go wrong with choccies/maybe a book or diary etc.....


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    #54
    368100
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,067 ✭✭✭368100


    Miss Demeanour wrote: »
    I hate the whole secret santa thing having received a hugely innappropriate 'gift' last year.
    But doing the idea correctly and for someone you dont know and on a small budget.....cant go wrong with choccies/maybe a book or diary etc.....

    I was given a tub of anti dandruff brylcreem one year..I don't have dandruff! I was annoyed/embarrased until I found out who it was....he gave somebody else a bar of imperial leather soap another year. Same fella looked like he had an annual bath and smelled worse....he should have kept theme.


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    #55
    Miss Demeanour
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,383 ✭✭✭Miss Demeanour


    368100 wrote: »
    I was given a tub of anti dandruff brylcreem one year..I don't have dandruff! I was annoyed/embarrased until I found out who it was....he gave somebody else a bar of imperial leather soap another year. Same fella looked like he had an annual bath and smelled worse....he should have kept theme.

    Mine was more of a sexual/weird nature and it is terrible to be suspicious of all your work colleagues afterwards :/


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    #56
    branie2
    Registered Users Posts: 10,298 ✭✭✭✭branie2


    A DVD player and a DVD boxset of Magnum PI


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    #57
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users Posts: 4,638 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    bluewolf wrote: »
    if it were in ireland i'd suggest a bunch of stuff from flying tiger
    but you aren't
    that's the end of my story

    I concur.

    On a slight tangent, why did they change the name here to that. Tiger was a cool name for a shop. Flying Tiger sounds like a dodgy sex manual position.


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    #58
    s7ryf3925pivug
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,007 ✭✭✭s7ryf3925pivug


    Give lots of toilet paper.
    Mandatory gift exchanges with people you don't know.
    Still less annoying than whip-rounds every week to contribute to some strangers birthday. Write weird intimate messages if you have no idea who they are.


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    #59
    somefeen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭somefeen


    Miss Demeanour wrote: »
    Mine was more of a sexual/weird nature and it is terrible to be suspicious of all your work colleagues afterwards :/

    You have my sympathies. A secret Santa I was involved in a few years ago one of the girls got a vibrator. It would have been funny if someone she knew well or a friend confessed, but no one owned up to it and it got very awkward. The next year another girl got a crotchless lingerie set with a genuinely creepy and filthy note wrapped up in it. Of course no one knew who it was since you got your person out of a draw and kept it secret and then deposited the gift in their pigeonhole so they don't know who its from.

    No more secret Santa after that. It was eventually revived but with a person administrating it so it was on record who got matched up with who.


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    #60
    david75
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    €12.99 each. Designist. George’s st.

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    #61
    Witchie
    Registered Users Posts: 5,597 ✭✭✭Witchie


    darkdubh wrote: »
    Can't you opt out of this secret santa thing?

    No. I already am awkward enough trying to remember names and stiff in the office. Don't want someone not to get a gift.
    david75 wrote: »
    €12.99 each. Designist. George’s st.

    image-2.png

    If I was in Ireland....sure!


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