Revenge secret Santa for the office b£#@!

[Surewhyknot]

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??

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😥 poor woman, that's awful.

@MichelleScarn we'll have to agree to disagree then. Killing someone with kindness (an unfortunate choice of words when the post was about someone in a healthcare setting, granted) can be an excellent technique when dealing with someone difficult. They can't complain they haven't been treated well. This doesn't mean they have been treated better than others.

On this very site we read heartbroken mums at least once a week saying how horrible other children are being to there child (especially girls) leaving them out of parties and just being plan nasty to them in there peer group.

having read this thread Its very depressing adults just being as nasty.

treat people the way you would like to be treated.

The worst thing about this thread is the rank misogyny.
Slimfast and wrinkle cream.
Don't be old and fat ladies.
Bullying people as an adult makes you a twat

Fucking he'll.
I'm the 'office spinster' at the moment thanks to a bereavement that none of my young colleagues would know about. This is unimaginably cruel

What about a medical-grade deodorant and some mouth wash?

Donate a tree in their name to the Queens Forest queensgreencanopy.org/

Hot chocolate spoons.

The light we carry (michelle obamamas book)

Adult colouring book, with pencils.

Don’t buy anything mean. Just buy something impersonal like dove gift set from tesco. Public humiliation isn’t nice.

So I once gave the office spinster an inflatable boyfriend. She was actually lovely and I was young and thought it was funny. She said oooo I don't get many gifts and was excited, everyone else were getting candles or smelly stuff. Her face looked traumatized when she opened her gift and I felt terrible! I really did think it would be funny but totallllllly read that convo wrong.

Yikes. I don’t know how anyone could think that would be funny… old enough to work in an office, definitely old enough to know that’s not funny.
I’m glad I don’t work in an office - clearly not the nicest or brightest people work in offices.

Agree funking hell from me also

In my early 20s I was more then a bit of a C but I certainly learnt to be a lot more thoughtful after that experience.

Some really horrible stories on here. to all those who have been on the receiving end of this nasty shit. I'm so sorry

Apparently not given what you've just called her.

This "Public humiliation wrapped up in a Christmas gift (however token) is a low blow."

Be the bigger person. Why do you also want to be an office bitch (although a secret one rather than out in the open). It's not a race to the bottom is it.

So I once gave the office spinster an inflatable boyfriend. She was actually lovely and I was young and thought it was funny. She said oooo I don't get many gifts and was excited, everyone else were getting candles or smelly stuff. Her face looked traumatized when she opened her gift and I felt terrible! I really did think it would be funny but totallllllly read that convo wrong.""

Some comments on here are unbelievably cruel - why are people so horrible, self esteem issues? or just plain out and out nasty. As grown ups all these people do know what they are doing - empathy lacking completely.

Some of these stories have made my heart sink.

The year my philandering uncle abandoned my aunt and cousins, including a new baby, just before Christmas, my mother bought him Brut aftershave.

I suspect quite a few men have received this subtle condemnation from disgusted present-givers.

Just recycle something you have been given as a gift, but never used! That way you haven’t spent money on her, so you have that satisfaction. But don’t look bad!

I ran the SS for years without any problems. People put thought into gifts. Then we got a couple of new staff members that used it to do nasty things like this designed to upset people. They were always given lovely gifts themselves. So I put a stop to the SS. But everyone convinced me to not let them spoil it. One of them got me that year. They spent £2.00 of a £15 budget buying me cheap sweets that they knew I could not eat anyway. The tub of sweets were brought out in January for everyone to share. We all knew who brought them. But there was lots of speculation every time someone had a sweet who would buy such a cheap rubbish gift. This went on for ages making the gift giver uncomfortable every time. We saved the plastic tub to store things in. Every time the tub comes out it starts the speculation and comments again. It's the cheap gift that will never die.

In my first term of my first teaching job I was given a thing and handcuffs by the utterly classless office manager. Total waste of cash.

Have some dignity and don't stoop so low. Address the stirring instead of adding to the drama. Be the bigger person.

@Surewhyknot take note, @Nanalisa60 has put it most succinctly.

Treat people with kindness.

This. Baylis and Harding hits the nondescript “ meh.” Point perfectly, but can in no way be interpreted as bullying.