Secret Santa Etiquette

Sassafras

It's horrible when the realisation that your work colleagues hate you hits home

mikeyrob73

i have found out who is was, silly wee scrote from another dept, her card is fucking marked 

thermionic

We had one in work today. I didn’t take part because I’m a bloke, don’t really like Christmas and hate going to shops. Anyway, I’d be tempted to turn it into some prank... not a wise move. But it was fun to see people’s faces as they opened their gifts. A couple gave rather unconvincing displays of feigned surprise but the majority were visibly underwhelmed almost to the point of disgust. Ho ho ho!

Clarky

mikeyrob73 said:

Ossyrocks said:

It's a great opportunity to let someone at work know that someone hates them though.

yup certainly feels that way to me. cunts 

to make it worse its not even a beer i will drink. Badger Tanglefoot 

I reckon you've been told all you need to know by the pretty buyer.... lol..

Clarky

mikeyrob73 said:

i have found out who is was, silly wee scrote from another dept, her card is fucking marked 

retaliate in the true spirit of Crissmss

duotone

A mates company go out for their works Christmas party and then the secret Santa gifts are handed out there from a couple of large bags.  

I’m sure during the course of the evening, there are moans & groans about what presents were received.

stickyfiddle

Our lot did Secret Santa really wrong - everyone had to buy stuff in advance, then draw names and give gifts there and then. No opportunity to buy cool shit for people you like and/or buy cheap 1.75 beer for people you don't. I was in Kuwait so didn't participate...


Though, FWIW as a non-beer drinker, I'd have no idea that some would say Tanglefoot was considered bad.

BRISTOL86

Massive piss take to be honest. Then again I once got a chlamydia testing kit for Secret Santa so in all honesty I wouldn’t complain about the beer. 

Sporky

I've only been a Secret Santa victim once. I got the Italian sales chap in the office - he was obsessed with Italian cars in particular. We had a £5 target, so I got him three little Matchbox cars, one Ferrari, one Maserati and one Alfa, and a Lottery scratchcard with what was left so he had a chance to win enough to buy the real thing.

I got bought a red baseball cap. I have never worn a baseball cap and I don't think I've ever worn red. At that point I realised that most people are lazy and crap at everything, and I therefore haven't participated in a Shitty Santa since.

Lestratcaster

I'm so thankful I'm self-employed lol. Don't have to deal with bullshit every year haha.

CHRISB50

We had an Indian contractor working in our office called Rex. He entered the secret santa and someone bought him a dog collar and lead.

He wasn't impressed, bless him. 

usedtobe

mikeyrob73 said:

Ossyrocks said:

It's a great opportunity to let someone at work know that someone hates them though.

yup certainly feels that way to me. cunts 

to make it worse its not even a beer i will drink. Badger Tanglefoot 

Maybe this guy will do a swap?
https://www.gumtree.com/p/other-guitar-accessories/guitar-stand-for-ale/1275892713

Winny_Pooh

Our office has mostly youngsters so good cheer on the whole. £5 budget and I got a Rick & Morty mug.

Deadman

Ours was a fiver and somebody got me a mail order box of two bottles of Naga chili sauce yesterday. Good stuff too. 

I felt a bit guilty as they obviously cost a lot more than five quid.

MrSwanson

Ours worked quite well this year, put a present in you pick one out so harder for anyone to be offended as it's not really targeted.

menamestom

Our office do it, I opted out of it this year, but it’s about fun rather than how much you spend. One guy had things go missing all year and got them all back wrapped up for secret santa.  Everybody, including the guy who it was happening to thought it was funny.  It took great planning but cost almost nothing (I think he also got some token tat). 

 A £1.75 beer is not only tight, it’s lazy.

Iamnobody

The last time I participated in SS nonsense I got the lucky recipient 5 lottery tickets. I didn’t know them well enough to buy them a present...

The single beer is a piss take - maybe there is a £10 note sellotaped to the base of it?

Clarky

I've only been secret santa'd once

a nice bottle of Carta Negro Bacardi
yummy

DLM

Iamnobody said:

The last time I participated in SS nonsense I got the lucky recipient 5 lottery tickets.

Consider yourself lucky, Kaltenbrunner got sentenced to death at Nuremburg for participating in "SS nonsense"!

Ravenous

mikeyrob73 said:

i open my secret Santa and their is one bottle of beer, cost £1.75 from Asda. Thats a wee bit of a piss take init ? 

Lucky man - you now have the ideal excuse to flatly refuse participation in next year's. (Not joking - after that I would tell Secret Santa to Phuq Off.)