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Post by Sam Tyler on Dec 2, 2019 9:41:03 GMT
After everyone's had a break from this thread I thought a resurrection was in order with a timely one as we approach the festive season:
Secret Santa!
Why?
We're being bombarded with emails at work about joining the Secret Santa scheme that so many companies indulge in. Have some people not got enough work to do so they take up their time organizing this pony?
Am I being a Scrooge for opting out?
There are so many people in the 'team' that have signed up for it but what are they getting out of it? Spend a fiver on some tat for someone you're not keen on only to receive some equivalent tat from a 'mystery' someone that you equally wouldn't wish to socialize with.
I don't get it.
I would get more value if there was an email came around to donate a fiver for a children's charity or equivalent worthy cause in which case I'd be happy to make it much more than a fiver.
Sam.
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Post by Gene Hunt on Dec 2, 2019 9:59:34 GMT
Agreed. What a money spinner!
My kids came back from school on about it the other day. My response was to put up my hand and say "no way". I wasn't popular until I explained things.
Gene.
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Post by Three Litre on Dec 2, 2019 10:38:48 GMT
After everyone's had a break from this thread I thought a resurrection was in order with a timely one as we approach the festive season:
Secret Santa!
Why?
We're being bombarded with emails at work about joining the Secret Santa scheme that so many companies indulge in. Have some people not got enough work to do so they take up their time organizing this pony?
Am I being a Scrooge for opting out?
There are so many people in the 'team' that have signed up for it but what are they getting out of it? Spend a fiver on some tat for someone you're not keen on only to receive some equivalent tat from a 'mystery' someone that you equally wouldn't wish to socialize with.
I don't get it.
I would get more value if there was an email came around to donate a fiver for a children's charity or equivalent worthy cause in which case I'd be happy to make it much more than a fiver.
Sam. Agreed, misplaced present-giving. Far better to spend the money on giving it to charity.
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Post by Sparky on Dec 2, 2019 10:40:25 GMT
After everyone's had a break from this thread I thought a resurrection was in order with a timely one as we approach the festive season:
Secret Santa!
Why?
We're being bombarded with emails at work about joining the Secret Santa scheme that so many companies indulge in. Have some people not got enough work to do so they take up their time organizing this pony?
Am I being a Scrooge for opting out?
There are so many people in the 'team' that have signed up for it but what are they getting out of it? Spend a fiver on some tat for someone you're not keen on only to receive some equivalent tat from a 'mystery' someone that you equally wouldn't wish to socialize with.
I don't get it.
I would get more value if there was an email came around to donate a fiver for a children's charity or equivalent worthy cause in which case I'd be happy to make it much more than a fiver.
Sam. You aint the first one to opt out. I did when I was working full time at a Theatre. I never understood why we were all encouranged to stick our names in a hat and then buy a "cheeky" present for someone - you perhaps didn't like anyway.
I'd have happily put in £5/10 towards the local Hospital/Childrens Charity etc instead.
You aint a scrooge for opting out - I opted out too (as I am sure many others have).
Though - I have recently put a fiver in the box for the National Autistic Society as they have been tremendously helpful closer to home.
I worked on a few adverts for the Salvation Army - we all gave our time for free and ensured we fed ourselves (doing away with catering) Shame *some* broadcasters don't take the same attitude when it comes to their charges for broadcasting them...
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Post by Sparky on Dec 2, 2019 13:07:25 GMT
Can I add "Office Christmas Parties" too.... Grief....
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Post by Sam Tyler on Dec 2, 2019 23:06:24 GMT
Can I add "Office Christmas Parties" too.... Grief....
Most definitely Sparks A number of staff left early today to go for a Ruby as an early Christmas do. I politely declined as I like to choose who I eat with. I went for a Ruby last Sunday (not yesterday) with some mates and they're far better company. With a Christmas do like they had today there's always some knob that likes to hold centre stage and talk shop, there's no proper p***-taking as everyone is too polite or too frightened for that career-limiting faux pas. Stuff that, you can say what you like with mates, they won't be offended and will give as good as they get - even if the second word is "off". No, office parties are not for me, all I want to do at the end of my working day is to knob off home. Sam.
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Post by D.C. Burtonshaw on Dec 3, 2019 19:18:31 GMT
I've also opted out of the Secret Santa, been there seen it and done it, and agree about sending the money to a homeless charity instead.
Past Christmas parties have been a bit 50/50, I enjoy talking to a fair few of the colleagues but just about something sensible then I'd rather leave early. Yeah, yeah I've been called a wet blanket, party pooper, etc but the way I've seen some of my old jobs colleagues carry on, I'd rather keep away once people are consuming more drink. They're surprised when I'd rather drive there and drive home again, as they feel sorry that I can't have a drink - but it doesn't bother me!
In the past there's always someone being a control freak forcing people to join in and do what THEY want, - social activities are for enjoying yourself not putting up with some drunken bore you never agreed with anyway.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Dec 3, 2019 22:01:36 GMT
Christmas is all about children, once you get older you see it if for the predictable, disappointing & tedious exercise in enforced jollity that it is. These people who bugger off abroad for Christmas like rats leaving a sinking ship are worst of all, everyone in the UK should be forced to stay in the country & suffer it. I gave up drinking last March so I don't even have that to look forward to
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Post by Gene Hunt on Dec 3, 2019 22:33:53 GMT
Christmas is all about children, once you get older you see it if for the predictable, disappointing & tedious exercise in enforced jollity that it is. These people who bugger off abroad for Christmas like rats leaving a sinking ship are worst of all, everyone in the UK should be forced to stay in the country & suffer it. I gave up drinking last March so I don't even have that to look forward to Last March? Sign up for the next Meet Arth. We will soon break that deadlock. Gene Genie.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Dec 8, 2019 16:46:39 GMT
Professional Boxing. I think it's impossible for someone who has never boxed to appreciate it as a sport. You think of the millions of, mostly men, who watch it, often paying a premium to see a bout that may last a few minutes only & wonder how it has lasted so long as a spectator sport when, unlike pro wrestling which offers a spectacle, all you are seeing is two men thump one another. I've never understood the adulation Muhammad Ali has for instance & I think boxers like Henry Cooper & Frank Bruno were liked not for their boxing prowess but for their likeability.
Pro wrestling I understand as it offers some amusement, but how many pro wrestling fans watch Olympic/Commonwealth wrestling? Barely any I'd guess.
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