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  • 02-12-2014 12:07pm
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    Corvo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,648 ✭✭✭


    Does anyone else's work place do this? We do it annually and I despise the bloody thing. Now don't get me wrong, I don't hate Christmas, but I don't want to pretend I actually like most of the people I work with whom I wouldn't socialise with on a good day, never mind after a long year.

    It's €10 per head and while the amount does not matter, it's just the principal.

    Am I just being a mangey grinch? Or should I just grit my teeth and pay up? What makes it worse is that it is very difficult to get out of.


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    #2
    Saipanne
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭Saipanne


    Christ, just buy them a book. It's nothing.


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    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Nothing says I hate this gift-giving concept like a 2nd hand DVD of a series of Friends.

    So whatever you do, don't buy that for someone.


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Yes, we always had one.
    Yes, just suck it up. I never enjoyed them but it's Christmas!
    Yes, just go with the flow.


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    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Cayden Unkempt Pie wrote: »
    Yes, we always had one.
    Yes, just suck it up. I never enjoyed them but it's Christmas!
    Yes, just go with the flow.

    Are you suggesting he buys tampons as presents?


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    Shenshen
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 9,453 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shenshen


    In our office, you have to opt in if you want to take part.

    Not sure how well it would go down if everybody was froced to play along... I kind of like it so I always sign up.


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    Corvo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,648 ✭✭✭Corvo


    Shenshen wrote: »
    In our office, you have to opt in if you want to take part.

    Not sure how well it would go down if everybody was froced to play along... I kind of like it so I always sign up.

    Which is the way I would prefer it. I don't like the fact you are ostracised for telling them to shove it up their hole.


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    Stheno
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    Corvo wrote: »
    Which is the way I would prefer it. I don't like the fact you are ostracised for telling them to shove it up their hole.

    In my place they ignore you refusing and assign you someone anyway


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    cloud493
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    We buy each other cigarettes in my work. Since none of us know what anyone else likes.


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    anncoates
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    Corvo wrote: »
    It's €10 per head and while the amount does not matter, it's just the principal.

    Maybe just spend the interest instead?

    My workplace do KK but it's optional. If you don't want to join in, you don't have to.


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    kylith
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    I have two KKs this year, and one of them is blind - i.e. all the presents get put in a bag and everyone does a lucky dip, so not only do I have to come up with something, it has to be unisex and good for ages 19-60. Tons of fun.


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    recyclops
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    we do it in the team.

    while its just a bit of fun and i get on with it some genius introduced a new rule. We have to buy gifts beginning with the same initial as the gift recipient

    just F*** OFF


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    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Am i the only horrible fcuker that has often just used a KK present that I got the year before (and threw into the desk drawer unopened) for the current one?


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    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    Oooohh - I got another idea. 6 pack of Tuborg and a few tubes of Toobz crisps.

    Classy!


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    Corvo
    Registered Users Posts: 3,648 ✭✭✭Corvo


    anncoates wrote: »
    Am i the only horrible fcuker that has often just used a KK present that I got the year before (and threw into the desk drawer unopened) for the current one?

    That's certainly a new one and I will keep it in mind if I can't get out of this years.

    Even the email pissed me off, with its crappy Santa on it.

    Ok, I admit. I am a grinch.


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    Jen Pigs Fly
    Registered Users Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭Jen Pigs Fly


    anncoates wrote: »
    Am i the only horrible fcuker that has often just used a KK present that I got the year before (and threw into the desk drawer unopened) for the current one?

    Be awkward if the person who gave the present to you last year was the person you got to give the gift this year.
    Try explaining that one in the canteen :D


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    anncoates
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    xxxJennyxxx wrote: »
    Be awkward if the person who gave the present to you last year was the person you got to give the gift this year.
    Try explaining that one in the canteen :D

    Bollocks.

    Seed of paranoia now sown.


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    Bassfish
    Registered Users Posts: 903 ✭✭✭Bassfish


    I have no problem with the once off €10 present part but in my office they insist on doing this thing where you buy multiple small gifts for the person in the weeks running up to Christmas and then the main one just before Christmas. People boast that they spend €50 or €60 on their person over the month and when I voiced my dislike of this to some colleagues I was called a grinch and asked why I don't like Christmas! Fukking load of bullcrap!


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    #19
    lertsnim
    Registered Users Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭lertsnim


    I despise it. One of my old work places did it every year and a few of us couldn't be bothered with it but the gob****es trying to force it on everyone act like you murdered someone. I don't have a problem giving presents to people I actually care about.


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    mariaalice
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    Get a 10 donation to a charity and try and make it vaguely something the person is interested in...animal charity, etc.


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    westcoast66
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    I worked in a place where the office manager (mother hen type) used to put everyones name in a hat and then you had to pull a name out. She would then record in her spreadsheet who got who. 'To make sure that the presents were appropriate'. I refused to take part one year as I said that it should be anonymous and nearly got fired over it!


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    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    I used to organise one in work, for the Christmas party. No one every objected but there were always a few gob****es who liked to pretend they were too busy and important to walk into their nearest chemist and buy something. So they'd arrive in hands swinging and bring no present but walk out with one themselves. I sent several of them back out the door and around the corner to the first shop. And yes, I am a bossy cow. But FFS, it's totally harmless and a bit of fun, just go with it.


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    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,465 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    errr when did it change from kringle


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    #24
    OneArt
    Registered Users Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭OneArt


    I wouldn't mind if my workplace had one. I'd love to get the chain-smoking old hag I work for an old lady jumper or a frilly dildo or something.


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    To Elland Back
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    OP, I declared myself out of the one where I work today ;)


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    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    I used to organise one in work, for the Christmas party. No one every objected but there were always a few gob****es who liked to pretend they were too busy and important to walk into their nearest chemist and buy something. So they'd arrive in hands swinging and bring no present but walk out with one themselves. I sent several of them back out the door and around the corner to the first shop. And yes, I am a bossy cow. But FFS, it's totally harmless and a bit of fun, just go with it.

    Not wanting to do it is one thing but taking a present off someone else while refusing to buy??? No thanks


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    Caliden
    Registered Users Posts: 5,982 ✭✭✭Caliden


    Donate money to charity on their behalf. That way the gift matches the gifter.


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    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    lertsnim wrote: »
    I don't have a problem giving presents to people I actually care about.

    This. And with someone you're close to, you know what they like instead of pointless consumerist nonsense in the alleged spirit of Christmas.

    Plus, as someone who has spend many an Xmas skint, every tenner adds up!


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    pauliebdub
    Registered Users Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭pauliebdub


    We used to do it in my last job, a team of thirty pulled a name out of a hat and spent a tenner and placed the wrapped gifts under the Christmas tree. Until some malicious person swapped a gift intended for an overweight girl in the team with a tub of slim fast to humiliate her in front of everyone on what should have been a fun occasion. It was discontinued after that.


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    Tarzana2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,553 ✭✭✭Tarzana2


    Teyla Emmagan wrote: »
    So they'd arrive in hands swinging and bring no present but walk out with one themselves.

    Well, if someone gives you a gift, the gracious thing to do is accept it. What should they have done? :confused:


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    #31
    Jen Pigs Fly
    Registered Users Posts: 2,770 ✭✭✭Jen Pigs Fly


    anncoates wrote: »
    Bollocks.

    Seed of paranoia now sown.

    Playing devils advocate here :pac:


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