Good point… maybe it was done as a joke, and Jen & Steve are registered at Fleet Farm now…
People actually do this???
So how would one go about requesting “no gifts please” without it looking like a thinly masked ploy for cash gifts? I’m all about not having people supply me with stuff I don’t really need when I get married (a long ways out, and who knows what the future misses will think since I probably haven’t even met her yet, but anyway).
Most people will understand “Best Wishes Only” to mean no gifts are expected.
Wow, a new low in taste was reached today! In everyone’s mailbox was a slip of paper that said, “No time to shop? See (person) to contribute to a gift!” on one side, with the gift registry URLs on the other side.
If this wasn’t so appalling that it’s funny, I’d be seriously bummed about the decline of manners in the world.
Reading things like this make me glad I work with only two people: a gay man and a widow in her 60’s.
So do you think the slip of paper came from the mom-to-be?
I don’t know for sure who put up the sign or put the slips in our mailboxes. But the person for whose benefit this gimme-fest is being held has an office right across from the mail room, and she knows the sign is up in multiple locations. If she thought it was in bad taste, she would certainly have objected by now, don’t you think?
If that’s the case, I’d take it to HR. There’s a difference between a passive sign and a note put into a company mailbox demanding gifts, or contributions toward a gift. The former is tacky, the second is just extortion.
Robin
Didn’t Dilbert have a “still single shower” to get something back from the people had had been guilted into buying stuff for? I think he was registered at Electron Hut.
My suggestion: Go to shower, load up your plate with as much “party food” as possible, say congrats (best wishes, whatever), leave.
looks like a sign saying “Free Food” to me.
Mmmmmm… Foooooood…