So we had the company BBQ Saturday, there were leftovers of uncooked meats, these are prefab, frozen shishkabob type thingies. Each box is about two or 3 pounds.
There is a total of 16 boxes left over that I want to distribute to the employees (since it was bought for them) before it rots, but there are 28 employees.
They are bickering about who gets what.
So I decided put the names of those who want a box in one big cup, and the names of the meats in another ( 6 slips chicken, 6 slips beef, 4 slips sausage) shake them both up, pull out a name (José) and pull out a type of meat (beef) José gets a box of beef. Understand.
This way all have a chance at taking something home and if a “winner” gets something they don’t like maybe they can trade with someone else.
I think this is the fairest method, but some think not (according to the grape vine) So I’m asking you guys - what do you think of this method or do you have any suggestions?
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I’d skip the type of meat slips. Just choose the people randomly and let them pick the meat the want. Just like loot split in D&D, although usually we waited until there were more magic items than party members.
If distributing to some employees but not all will cause a problem, then either bandsaw the remaining slips in half at the butchers or give them to a charity or homeless shelter.
We thought of this, too, not random enough was the census, though I fail to how not. I just want it to disappear, there is no shortage of hungry people in São Paulo, If we don’t get it resolved by this afternoon, I’m calling the church.
Give it to a homeless shelter. Tell the ungrateful @ssholes that none of them deserve it, and if they still want it, go volunteer at the shelter and maybe they can have some for lunch there. That way, they do something nice for someone, plus get to see that maybe they don’t have it so bad. Two birds with one stone and all.
jk1245, who had something like this occur at work recently and was driven up the wall by it.
Good Idea, however not very realistic as some of these folks already live in the favalas around here, they see crushing poverty around them all the time, but still the ungrateful comment holds true, gosh sometimes I think I’m just a baby sitter.
In the first lottery, you will decide the order of the other three. In the cup you will place three slips of paper: one that reads “chicken,” one that reads “beef,” and one that reads “sausage.” The order these are drawn will be the order of the following three lotteries. For this example, we will say they came out in the following order: beef, chicken, sausage.
Announce that the beef lottery is about to begin. Anyone who wishes to have a chance to get beef must enter their name for the lottery. Winners of the beef lottery will be ineligible for later lotteries. Contestants must decide for themselves if the risk of winning the beef lottery when they really want chicken or sausage is worth the risk of not winning anything. When all names have been submitted, draw. Winners get beef. Losers may progress to the chicken lottery.
Announce that the chicken lottery is about to begin. Anyone who wishes to have a chance to get chicken must enter their name for the lottery. Winner of the chicken lottery will be ineligible for the sausage lottery. Contestants must decide for themselves et cetera. When all names have been submitted, draw. Winners get chicken. Losers may progress to the sausage lottery.
Announce that the sausage lottery is about to begin. Anyone who wishes et cetera. Draw. Winners get chicken. Losers learn a valuable lesson about applied mathematics.
If at any time, the number of available items for the lottery exceeds the number of contestants, forego the drawing and immediately distribute items to all entered contestants. Then move that lottery to the end of the sequence so that losers from what would have been the third round now have another chance to win.
I’m sorry KneadToKnow but this solution is just not complicated enough. Screw the patients! We need some distribution method that will stop clinic operations for at least a week, not just one day like your plan - But I got to admit, that would really confuse the hell outta this bunch. HAY! You wanted RANDOM! Shut up and draw!
I initially liked your original plan the best, Janx. It seems a little more equitable because no one gets to pick which type of meat he/she gets. So the last of the 16 picked doesn’t feel like he’s getting the ‘last choice’ remaining.
Still, that leaves 12 who get nothing and likely grumblings from them. So that made me think it might be better to have just one drawing, of the ‘winner take all’ variety. Then there would be one very lucky person and the losers would have more company.
Or perhaps one winner gets all the beef, one gets all the sausage, one gets all the chicken.
Or have them each put the name of their favorite charity in the jar and then draw to see where all that BBQ will go.
Or keep it in the freezer and promise another company party when sales reach a certain goal or whatever.
Lots of possibilities. Hmmmm. . . . but the more I think about it, the more I like the idea of giving it all away. After all, the employees have already had their party and profited by your benevolence. Their bickering over the leavings kind of defeats the whole purpose. And dividing up the extra might unintentionally suggest that they stand to profit anytime too much of something is purchased. That way of thinking could affect whoever is responsible for ordering the next batch of pens, PCs, whatever. So maybe the best policy is that no one on staff gets the ‘extras’. Give it away to a shelter.
Oh, and for the record, I believe my four-lottery system could be done in about 20 minutes, allowing 5 minutes per lottery (which I think is generous).
Kinda like KneadtoKnow’s system, only less complicated:
Give everyone a slip on which they can write their name. Have three hats: a chicken hat, a sausage hat, and a beef hat. People can put their nameslip in any hat they want. Then draw names from each hat until the boxes are distributed.
Alternately, get one of the employees to organize a New Year’s party at their house, at which the rest of the meat will be served.
