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[Jordan2]

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@San Antonio Gal wrote:

@Jordan2  - Are you sure you have to purchase 16 gifts?  That seems a bit nuts.  

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@San Antonio Gal I don't have to buy gifts, but I don't want to come off cheap and a party pooper. I do speak to all 16 moniters, some I like better than others, but I don't want to make any hard feelings. There is this women who mans the booth and she shares the job with someone else. I don't like her but do like the other person but I'll have to give her something as she will know the other one got a gift. As a matter of fact the person I like gave out these big iced Christmas cookies but gave them out two days in a row. The lady I don't like didn't get her cookie the first day and heard her talking to a couple of monitors that she didn't make the cut. She ended up getting the cookie, I thought it wasn't right talking about her behind her back. 

[Group 5 minus 1]

Even at $5.00 a gift that's a lotta money!

[songbird]

Everyone in our group at work pitched in for two gifts to 2 student workers that were leaving after 4 years.  We got the puzzle QVC offered one year.  In which you placed a money bill in a middle of the a puzzle and they have to figure out how to get to it.  We each put a $50.00 bill in each puzzle.  And then we watched them try to get their money!  It was so much fun. It took one student under   3 minutes to get his.  The other student struggled with it but got that one a few minutes later.  Then we had a pizza party. They loved the money and puzzles.  We enjoyed more then any Secret Santa.

[chrystaltree]

If I had to buy 16 gifts, I would bow OUT of the gift giving. That's ridiculous. I never heard of such a thing.  I'd give Christmas cards and that would be it.  

[chrystaltree]

@Nightowlz wrote:

Are you sure everyone is suppose to buy 16 gifts?

Makes more since for everyone to buy 1 gift so each ends up with 1? I really don't think they expect you to buy 16 gifts. That sounds crazy.

I wonder if maybe she got it wrong.  

[Greeneyedlady21]

Ridiculous that juvenile antics/comparisons/comments about gifts happen like that in a work environment.

A bunch of women in a school, well I've experienced that. I had a similar job in an elementary school three years ago, and many of my coworkers were less mature than some of the kids were. And that includes the principal and assistant principal.

I left after four months. I wouldn't participate in buying gifts just to please coworkers in that or any other environment. Don't need them to like me, I'm just there to work. Basic human decency and respect is the important thing.

[occasionalrain]

I can't think anyone wants or needs 16 low cost gifts like the OP can expect to receive in return. There has got to be some miscommunication. If it actually is16 gifts, I'd buy boxes of candy that can easily be re-gifted.

[Nancy Drew]

16 Hershey bars wrapped up and call it a day.

[PA Mom-mom]

@Jordan2  When I was teaching, I had a colleague who gave each teacher a gift. She gave me one of these glass ornaments. I still have it 25 years later, and I remember her when I hang it on the tree.

They are $16 or $17 for 12 ornaments on A, and can arrive by Saturday, if you have prime. You could buy 2 sets and use the others on your tree.

Also, I just bought one dollar ornaments at the craft store

for my DH to give to his school bus kiddies. Really cute.

[JJsMom]

Not only would I not want to buy 16 junky things to give, I wouldn't want 16 junky things from people I barely know or like. This is how you ruin the holidays (blind, meaningless commercialism). Please suggest a gift exchange or opt out. This is an awful tradition to pressure people to participate in.