Worst secret santa gift you've received?

[buddhasbelly]

Mine was gin infused chocolates, when the whole office knows I'm a recovering alcoholic.

Please tell me your worst secret santa gifts you've received?

My office pal got the chocolates 😂

[ERGx]

A bible.

Was definitely from my Jehovah’s Witness colleague.

[safariboot]

I've had nothing. Very annoying. I've not been the victim of an obviously malicious parcel though. Mostly just the usual boring toiletries gift sets.

[DPotter]

On 2 occasions I've been the only person who didn't receive a gift - both claimed they had forgotten. Very hurtful and embarrassing situation to be in. Never received anything at a later date either.

Another time with a crafting group I belong to, I received a basket of mixed nuts from Tesco's- I'm allergic to almonds and not really a nut fan, which the giver wasn't to know. However the theme of the SS was to give something you had made. I did complain to the organiser from the stand point of nut allergies being a problem and fortunately SS seems to have fallen out of favour.

I don't work in the type of areas these days that have SS - thank heavens

[pinkksugarmouse]

@cookiemonster2468

A box of lemsip, a single teabag and a tunnocks chocolate teacake.

(I wasn't ill... guess they just thought lempsip might come in handy over Winter??)

The chocolate was nice to be fair.

The single teabag is very strange too. So they took a teabag from a packet or box thinking “that rounds the present off nicely.”

At least it’s not spiteful but I would be left bewildered 😳 “What? Why?”

[pinkksugarmouse]

@TheMoreThisReachesTheMainstrea

One year the first present out of the bag was a dead pheasant, complete with feathers and head. This brought the preceding to a screeching halt as everyone tried to decide if this was a message (like a horse’s head in the bed) or just a macabre gift

Turned out it was just a gift with no meaning at all

😮 As an animal lover and a Vegan I would have left immediately and probably thrown up in the nearest suitable vessel. I would have been searching for a new job for January.


But you don’t have to be Vegan to know that this isn’t an appropriate secret Santa gift. It’s just macabre and creepy.

[cookiemonster2468]

@ArblemarchTFruitbat

A giant wine glass that holds an entire bottle of wine.

I got one of those once - the most pointless present ever. I'm a wine drinker, but who would want to tip the whole bottle into one glass? It went to the charity shop.

I've seen those. Such a stupid gift, I don't think anyone would use them. I guess it's a joke gift for drinkers but very wasteful as they will all go to landfill.

[cookiemonster2468]

A box of lemsip, a single teabag and a tunnocks chocolate teacake.

(I wasn't ill... guess they just thought lempsip might come in handy over Winter??)

The chocolate was nice to be fair.

[pinkksugarmouse]

A lot of these are just really spiteful.

Could I pick a really good gift for £10 for someone I don’t know very well? Maybe not but I could definitely avoid the nasty, tacky and hurtful. I can understand why some workplaces put a stop to it.

[StillTraumatised]

I also saw a lovely colleague very upset one year after receiving a little budgie ladder and mirror - she was a very petite lady and presumably the giver thought it funny but it was just cruel and pointless.

[pollyglot]

Box of past-use-by-date chocolates, wrapped, but with another wrap underneath and a card adressed to the giver. Last year's SS.
Another time I was the only one who didn't receive a gift, despite buying something really lovely for my recipient. Gutted.

[StillTraumatised]

A blow up man doll.

Fortunately I was out of the office the day the gifts were shared as it was embarrassing enough when I opened it alone. I was new to the team and worked in a side office away from the main team so didn't really know anyone and never worked out why someone thought it appropriate and it did play on my mind for a while. I put it straight in the bin in a carrier bag, but then worried that it might fall out and the cleaner would see it so I double bagged it and tied it tightly!

Name changed as I've told this story many times since when I decline to take part in Secret Santas!

[my8thMNusername]

@TheMoreThisReachesTheMainstrea

One year the first present out of the bag was a dead pheasant, complete with feathers and head. This brought the preceding to a screeching halt as everyone tried to decide if this was a message (like a horse’s head in the bed) or just a macabre gift

Turned out it was just a gift with no meaning at all

Via a taxidermist or just pure roadkill?

[my8thMNusername]

*SHOE!!!

Goddammit

[my8thMNusername]

@Wheresmywoolyjumpers

Friend of mine got a potato. It was a thing where you could do gifts over a number of days. She also then got a stock cube and some other ingredients. At the end she got a really nice recipe book with the recipe in that the ingredients were for. But the day she opened the potato stays with me.

Reminds me of when my aunt gave my sister one show for Christmas and the other for her birthday (end of July).

She's our favourite and most wonderful aunt and not weird at all! Except for that.

[whoopy1]

I didn’t receive it, but my friend received a bubble bath gift set, which had been opened and partially used. She knew who it was from, as she had given them it the previous year (unopened)!

[ThinWomansBrain]

@wendywoopywoo222

After a couple of awful gifts I offered to run the secret Santa and just kept my own name every year. Always had lovely gifts after that.

Brilliant thinking!

Novelty Christmas Slippers - size 3/4. I take size 8.
the woman that got them for me got extremely drunk, asked repeatedly if I liked them, and kept suggesting that I put them on.


This year, new employer - secret santa has to be sendable by email and no-cost.
Seems a good idea - interested to see how it turns out.
It's part of a zoom Christmas party - at least this one is only scheduled for a couple of hours. Last years' one I claimed dodgy internet connection after FIVE AND A HALF HOURS.

[TheBabyBoo]

Some chocolate truffles that had melted

[evtheria]

@Wheresmywoolyjumpers

Friend of mine got a potato. It was a thing where you could do gifts over a number of days. She also then got a stock cube and some other ingredients. At the end she got a really nice recipe book with the recipe in that the ingredients were for. But the day she opened the potato stays with me.

This is brilliant.

[Shallwegoforawalk]

I thought the urine had won but the dead pheasant must be a very close second!

[TheMoreThisReachesTheMainstrea]

One year the first present out of the bag was a dead pheasant, complete with feathers and head. This brought the preceding to a screeching halt as everyone tried to decide if this was a message (like a horse’s head in the bed) or just a macabre gift

Turned out it was just a gift with no meaning at all

[ArblemarchTFruitbat]

A giant wine glass that holds an entire bottle of wine.

I got one of those once - the most pointless present ever. I'm a wine drinker, but who would want to tip the whole bottle into one glass? It went to the charity shop.

[Wheresmywoolyjumpers]

Friend of mine got a potato. It was a thing where you could do gifts over a number of days. She also then got a stock cube and some other ingredients. At the end she got a really nice recipe book with the recipe in that the ingredients were for. But the day she opened the potato stays with me.

[Limegreentangerine]

My work mate who is actually my pal got me a mug that says
" if you think my attitude stinks you should smell my minge"
I was told inexplicably to not drink from it in view of customers 😂😂😂😂
Good mug tho

[Thomasina79]

Not me, my other half. He had gone to a lot of trouble in choosing his SS gift and wrapt it up beautifully and in addition had spent slightly more than the suggested amount.

All he got was a key ring in the shape of a condom. He did not see the funny side!

[Granjeanne]

I got a gobstopper! I was mortified at tge time, but, looking back, I probably deserved it!