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What to do with flowers?

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ohnoDS · 05/11/2024 13:43

Just had a big bouquet delivered, a thank you from a team I've worked with for the last three years and just left...but the Leader of that team has recently caused me and my family huge distress through her actions...and I'm tempted to put them in the bin.

Other members of the team have been lovely, and so was she until it came to a situation where covering her own back took priority in an awful situation that she created through her own arrogance, where she should have supported me and DS rather than throwing us under a bus and then disappearing behind bland impersonal emails. She hasn't apologised for that and I don't imagine she will.

The flowers are lovely but I can't look at them without huge hurt and anger for what she's done. What do you think, bin or keep them? Or shall I leave them somewhere for someone else to find/give them to a friend?

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CoastalCalm · 05/11/2024 13:44

Hand them to a random stranger who looks like they could do with a lift on your way home

ButtSurgery · 05/11/2024 13:47

What makes you think she contributed a penny to the bouquet?

Why can't it just be from the people you actually liked? Seems unfair on them to be tarred with the same brush.

Fushia123 · 05/11/2024 13:48

Take the biggest one and bin it.
Find a few glass vases or jam jars. Cut the stems other flowers shorter and put a variety of them in each vase.
The big one represents your team leader. The others represent the others at work that you liked and were sorry to leave!

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rapidsrunner · 05/11/2024 14:51

If you're that invested in your anger and hurt, and the huge bouquet of flowers will cause you more distress than joy, then take them to a friend, or donate them to a senior residence or nursing home or somewhere else where they will cheer people up and bring a bit of colour and happiness to their days.

frozendaisy · 05/11/2024 14:53

Donate to local care home

frozendaisy · 05/11/2024 14:54

Just say you are offon holiday would they like them

Pheasantfood · 05/11/2024 14:57

Second giving them to a local care home.

Aquacitra · 05/11/2024 14:59

Take them to a care home or hospice

ohnoDS · 05/11/2024 15:11

Thanks everyone, I'll do a mix of all of your suggestions - it's not about wanting to invest in my hurt @rapidsrunner , it's just very recent and unresolved. Long term it will affect my DS more than it will me, so it's very hard to forgive, especially as this individual prides herself on being an expert in the care of young people...

I love flowers, and I will enjoy giving them to the local care home, perfect idea!

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