Revenge secret Santa for the office b£#@!

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I'm looking for the worst, most subtle insulting secret Santa gift for the office stirrer.. limit is £10 and we're opening them in person.

I'm torn between a pair of secondhand socks or a homemade loo roll cozy al la your grandma!

What are the worst you've had? Can I cast insult without being too overt??

Once upon a time there were two people in an office who didn't like me and they were friends. For SS that year Friend 1 pulled Friend 2 and gave them a framed photo of me.
When Friend 2 received it they laughed and then stood on it, breaking the glass.

For a few weeks the smashed photo of my face lay around the office in various places.

Why people use SS as a way to say fuck you to others at Christmas in all sorts of weird ways is really beyond me. I love Christmas, but it truly can bring out the worst in some people.

I guess the OP decided not to come back to the thread, as she wasn’t getting the answers she wanted. I agree with the majority on here and think it would be a dick move to try to humiliate someone via Secret Santa. If you can’t be nice for one time a year, don’t take part in it.

OP if you’re still reading responses, rise above your juvenile intentions and think how you would feel, if someone did this to you. If you aren’t happy with someone’s behaviour call them out on it at the time, or if it is really bad report it to either your manager or HR. Don’t be a bully, because that could very easily be what you are labelled as, if you go ahead with this awful vendetta. It really isn’t as funny as you seem to think!

Broken glass for weeks in the office? Did your colleagues, manager or office cleaner not pick up? Misses the point

These threads are always doubly unkind because people will be reading some of the suggestions, a popular one being Baylis and Harding sets, as a great 'I hate you' gift idea having received one themselves at some point.
Years of SS threads have taught me that some people's perfectly nice ideas are sometimes thought of as low effort or generic (biscuits, chocs, wine, soap sets) whereas others would love to get one of those. Whilst you can't please everyone, hopefully most people don't set out to upset.

@guffaux Lots of people still view Secret Santa as a chance to have a collective laugh and it’s not about the gift. I don’t know when it changed to be about “ nice” presents.
So maybe your friend knew you really well and got the most wrong thing to show that. I can’t imagine you were meant to take it seriously.

That is truly shocking. Were there no repercussions at all for them for doing that to you?

Agree. I actually love getting candles, bath sets and chocolates. I'm always happy with Baylis and Harding. Also love a thing of Lindor

Broken glass for weeks in the office? Did your colleagues, manager or office cleaner not pick up? Misses the point

there wasn't bits of smashed glass lying around. The glass across the frame was smashed. No one seemed to know what to do with it and kind of ignored it. It just sort of sat on an empty desk and got moved around every so often. Eventually I took it.

That is truly shocking. Were there no repercussions at all for them for doing that to you?

Nope. Small office. No HR or anything like that. Office manager wasn't one for dealing with things.

What an unusual and very passive bunch of colleagues and manager you had

You sound awful.
are you sure you aren't the office bitch?

It was a very toxic work environment and it scarred me tbh. That was 10 years ago and I don't think I ever really got over my treatment there.

A vintage shop voucher for a shop that has gone out of business.

I'm so sorry. I've read some awful stuff on this thread but this is in a low class of its all. They should have been sacked.

That's awful, what a pair of bitches. I would have taken the frame away the first day.

What made you leave it for so long? Did the bullying get so bad you didn't even feel able to take your own picture away?

Absolutely this with a bowl and a baking mix. Not immediately obvious because of the cake mix box but the wooden spoon will get the message across.

I think the OP has already shown that she is the opposite of classy.

I'm sure it is not the same person (though the idea this may have been done more than once is depressing) but this happened in my office once. It was awful! Some people thought it was funny and the gift giver was proud of herself. The woman was clearly upset. I hadn't been there long but I knew to leave as quickly as possible.

We used to do SS at my old company with an agreed budget of £5-£10. First year I put a lot of time and effort into buying a gift I thought the person I had drawn would like. She did she absolutely loved it. Mine off another person turned out to be an unwanted Xmas gift of theirs from the previous year but I actually really liked it so I wasn't overly bothered. The second year we did SS again I took a lot of time and effort into buying something nice for the person I'd drawn, even though she was complete bitch to me. No idea who got me cos that year I didn't receive a present. Wouldn't have been so bad had we just left the presents in the staff room to collect at the end of a shift, but we were out in a restaurant for our staff party so everyone knew I'd been left out. I was gutted but refused to let it show cos I didn't want the person to get a kick out of it. The worse thing. I aren't a bitch, I try to get on with everyone and I most certainly am not a bully. Another colleague was also pissed off cos he was given a couple of crappy poundland kids games when he'd also put loads of effort in. The 3rd and final year of SS I drew my own name out of the hat, didn't put it back in and got myself a lovely gift from me to me.

I have never in 20 year career involving 5 different workplaces ever encountered any drama about SS gifts. Bit of a laugh, nothing sexual, nothing personal. I read these posts and I think WTF.

Me neither.

It's always been a £5 limit. Gifts are usually mugs, hot chocolate or something chocolate related. Occasionally a keyring or funny fluffy toy. Never known any drama over it at all.

This, and so many of the other stories on here just make me feel so sad. It really
highlights how something so innocuous and supposed to be fun, like secret Santa, can not only be ruined but also really affect a whole lot of people by some idiot trying to be funny. It’s a really low, cheap laugh that says so much about the giver. I hope this thread has made anyone who was thinking of this think again.

How depressing that there are so many spiteful people out there. I’m hoping the OP was just a troll or Daily Mail ‘journalist’ because the idea that someone genuinely asks this while thinking they somehow have the moral high ground is frightening.

@OnlyheretovoteonAIBU What are you on about? The overwhelming majority have said don’t do it. There’s a smattering of stories about thoughtless gifts and just one nasty one (the photo one).
Depressing?

I got a Baylis and Harding gift set in the work secret Santa last year (that I organised!) and now I'm wondering if it was because the person didn't like me. I've now left that job so I won't lose sleep over to, but still..,