I work at a largeish organisation (so Secret Santas have always been down to individual teams, apparently - nothing unusual) and I started here 2 months ago. The admin woman on my team has arranged a secret santa, and from the bin I've only gone and picked the CEO of the frigging place this morning.
AIBU to be utterly **ed off with having to partake in this stuff? I genuinely can't think of a way to get out of it, since it's all been arranged/drawn, but what the heck do I buy for a man who has oodles of cash, has very discerning taste, in his mid-40s - and oh, did I say I've met only the once since he's usually in business meetings, abroad for conferences, or in his office on the days I work?! About as as far away from my world view as you could get (part time employee, not particularly career driven, mum of 2, very broke due to redundancy at the start of this year).
I mean, since it's been made very clear that my previous office's tactic of buying a joke present isn't ok, AIBU to wonder how I'm meant to buy something for "under a tenner that's useful and reflects that you know the person" (direct quote from her team email)?
Aren't secret santas just setting people up to fail like that? It's going to be obvious who the present is fun at the "team unveiling" (!) too, because the woman saw my slip of paper after the draw by accident. GAH!