You got the boss what as a Secret Santa gift?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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We do a Secret Santa exchange every year at work (happily it’s voluntary, though I enjoy it and participate every year.) The way it runs at my company is pretty easy - all the particpants get a blank card with instructions to write your name and three things you’d like to get from Santa that are fifteen dollars or less. Easy enough. Then all the cards go into a big box and we draw a card.

So there’s a lady I’ll call Sue who works in accounting. Now, Sue’s quite the busybody and she’s not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree. She wandered into my office today to pick up some papers and, being a busybody, she started chatting about the Secret Santa stuff. Turns out she drew the owner of the company’s Secret Santa card.

“Wow,” thought I. “Easy way to try and make points with the big guy.”

Let me tell you a little about the owner, who I’ll call Big Guy. He’s a multimillionaire - owns a jet, a few Rolls Royces, a couple of Hummers. and various other super expensive cars and other trappings of the, um, tacky nouveau rich. Anyhow, he’s capable of buying everything he could possibly want (well, except a clue - but that belongs in the Pit and has nothing to do with this.)

Sue proceeds to talk about what Big Guy has on his list: beer, some sort of wrist-radio thingy, and some other sort of electronic gadget. Then she babbles about how she went to Radio Shack and Circuit City looking for fifteen dollar wrist radios and whatever the other gadget was (for the life of me I can’t remember what it was exactly.) Turns out that neither of the gadgets were anywhere near the $15 limit.

“So you must have purchased an interesting selection of microbrews instead,” thought I - she rambles and it’s hard to get a word in edgewise, so it was easier to think it than try to say it.

Nooooooooooooooo. That would be the course of action for someone who can think.

Sue got the Big Guy (a multimillionaire, remember?)

a $15 gift card to Radio Shack. :eek:

Seriously. Sue said her note would say that it’s to go towards the purchase of a wrist-radio thingy.

The woman got a multimillionaire a $15 gift card.

I can’t wait for the gift exchange on the 22nd…

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When I drew his name, I would have put it back and drawn another :stuck_out_tongue:

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That would have been so easy. A six-pack of Bud Lite and Sue would have been good to go. :smiley:

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I might have done the same thing as your coworker, but you would have gotten a lot more sarcasm in the telling of it.
What was he thinking asking for something that far over the limit?

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I think she did exactly the right thing. “Hey, bozo, which part of ‘under $15’ didn’t you understand?”

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Well, I agree she did the right thing, but to be fair, the multimillionaire boss probably has very little idea what things like that cost.

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I think she did fine. People with money need to get a clue and realize that their “trinkets” probably cost more than the average person’s paycheck.

The woman got a multimillionaire a $15 gift card.

Good grief. He’s a PERSON who happens to have more money than most. He’s not God, sheesh.

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I agree completely with what she did.

If I were a multimillionaire boss participating in a 15 dollar limit Secret Santa (because it was in the spirit of the event), I gotta say my 3 wishes would have been:

  1. Donation to Charity 1.
  2. Donation to Charity 2.
  3. Donation to Charity of your choice.
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I think its spelled riche. Just thought I’d add that. She should have gotten him a case of Steel Reserve.