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Workplace gifts
I get to my part-time job a couple Saturdays ago and saw there were cupcakes that said "Happy Birthday" on them. I asked "whose b'day?" It was a woman who just had left who seemed to have been trying to get me to ask her out (which finally subsided.) I threw a "By the way, happy b'day" out there this past week, and she attempts to lay a guilt trip on me... telling me that what I get her this week will let her know how sorry I am for missing her birthday. WTF?
She's a really nice woman, but should I really have to get her anything? I don't even know what to get my mother for her 60th b'day this coming Tuesday! I'm recovering from hernia surgery. I don't have time to do anything for someone just because she sends out interoffice emails to announce her birthday & does things like giving out candy gift packets with her picture on M&M's for her birthday. Hell, I don't even tell people when it's my birthday. One year, at an old job, this woman asked when my birthday was when it was my actual b'day. I asked why... "We're putting together a birthday list of all employees." Rather than go through the crap that would obviously come up if I said "today," I told her Feb. 29. If she wanted it that bad, my real b'day is in my file. On 3/1 I get a card signed by all the staff... including the ones who I went drinking with for my real b'day. Idiots... So would it be bad to give her a pack of microwave popcorn with "Happy Late B'day" written on it with a sharpie? |
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07-09-2009, 11:01 PM | #2 |
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That guilt trip sounds more like flirting to me.
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07-09-2009, 11:19 PM | #3 |
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07-09-2009, 11:20 PM | #4 |
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07-09-2009, 11:29 PM | #5 |
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Don't give out microwave popcorn. She'll just burn it in the microwave and stink up the office for hours.
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07-09-2009, 11:33 PM | #6 |
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Didn't we have just a thread on this not too long ago?
Last edited by Galaxy : 07-09-2009 at 11:34 PM. |
07-09-2009, 11:35 PM | #7 |
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buy her a thong that says free rides.
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07-09-2009, 11:38 PM | #8 |
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Pics please....
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07-10-2009, 01:24 AM | #9 |
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The rare times this happens, you must take action. Get her a butt plug. Bet you she never asks you again for a birthday present.
On the other hand, sounds like she's flirting with you.
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07-10-2009, 01:26 AM | #10 |
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Ignore her. Always worked for me.....
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Which makes your gift suggestion even better IMO. Last edited by Radii : 07-10-2009 at 01:35 AM. |
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07-10-2009, 05:26 AM | #12 |
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