Work leaving gift

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It’s me that leaving. I’m be only been at the company 6 months but leaving for personal reasons, I’m genuinely gutted about it as it’s the best team I’ve ever had.

Im in a team if 5, I wanted to get a small token gift for my colleague who trained me and has supported me (and will have to train my replacement) and my manager who I think would be hard to beat. Support, flexibility and kindness in bucket loads. Would flowers for these 2 and a big box of chocolates for the rest of the team be ok? Or would it be weird to only personally gift 2 of them in a small team and all are equally lovely?

I think it's a great plan and it's only logical that you'll be giving out personal gifts to those you've spent the most time with! At least I would understand that if I were a part of this team but not particularly close to you. If you want it to be more personal, you can make a slideshow type video for everyone and write/say a couple for words to everyone (about something they helped you with or something about them that you're grateful for, etc) and then email it to everyone. Here is a guide on making a slideshow, too, if you need this, it's mostly general advice but maybe it'll help. Other than that, I think the chocolates are an amazing idea and everyone will appreciate that. Most of the time people just leave without saying a word, so 😁

I think it’s fine to give personal gifts to those two but are you sure they’ll want to faff around carting flowers home from work?

I'm going against the flow here I think. Leaving presents are for the leavers, not the leavees. I know you want to express your appreciation to these two people but I honestly think that a nicely worded card to tell them that would be better. Gifts are all very well, but actually being told how much you are appreciated is priceless, in my opinion.

I recently received a house plant as a thank you for a piece of work I had done on a project. That was very nice, but a note to say what a good job I had done and how much I would be missed would have meant so much more!

I think it’s a lovely idea, and flowers and chocs are normally appreciated by all recipients. And ultimately, it is the thought behind them.

And if (as per the pp) they don’t want to ‘cart’ anything home, they can stay on their desks. Unlikely in my experience…