AIBU to want presents from the people I have helped all year...

[DidoTheDodo]

...in the style of teachers?

Or I am irrationally jealous?

(I have never received a mug or a key ring from anyone :( )

An exploding card? Excellent! I bet moonpig wish they'd thought of that!!

Ah, DH is a youth group leader and just a tad bitter that all the kids in his club give presents to their paid teachers, whilst he gets nothing for giving his time up for free. Oh I tell a lie; he got one bottle of beer this year.

I'm an a+e nurse. I literally save lives for a living, get rubbish pay and very rarely get "presents". Hey ho...

My kids will give their teachers a homemade card.

I saw my GP yesterday for a routine 6 monthly check up. He told me that he was retiring leaving at the end of August. He's 50 ..... I might send him a Thank You card that I've made myself but won't buy booze because he might not drink.

My mother (84) had been in a superb stroke ward in Gateshead many years ago, recovered well and my stepfather (88 or 89) insisted that he buy twelve or was it 24? bottles of wine to take to the ward as a thank you. We were thankful that we could borrow my mother's shopping trolley. The staff there said that they couldn't accept them so we suggested they were put forward as raffle prizes. Could have done with them ourselves by the time everything was sorted out

30 years ago I used to work in a bank. At Christmas, 100s of customers would bring in bottles of booze (anything from bottles of wine, vodka etc up to v expensive cognacs etc) for the bank manager (or more usually whichever assistant manager managed their account).

These would all get piled up in the manager's office and every couple of days all the staff would be invited in a couple at a time to pick what they wanted. We'd be told for example to pick say 3 bottles of wine, 2 spirits and one 'posh/expensive' spirit. This went on until everything was given out.

It always used to make me laugh, thinking of the businessmen etc who had brought in a nice bottle to impress 'their' bank manager, not knowing that no one took any notice whatsoever of who gave what, and their posh bottle was v likely drunk by a lowly administrator.

I'm a teacher and never get gifts/cards either, so not all teachers get things at the end of term. I'm a part time specialist subject teacher and have taught many of the children for 4/5 years in a row. Being part time (ha ha ha ) and not a Head of Department means you become invisible. Just a verbal thank you from someone at some point would be nice!

I always give little thoughtful gifts to Brownie leaders or anyone who has gone out of their way to be helpful. When DD was born we gave the Special Care baby unit staff some kneeling mats as they spent such a long time on the floor!

The weirdest corporate gift I got (legal field) was when one of the partners got sent a bucket of popcorn from a US contact. It cost them around $40 to courier the thing, a metal bucket nearly big enough to mop the floor with IYSWIM, and inside were three sections with sweet, salty and cheese popcorn respectively.

It was Christmas Eve. I took the popcorn to the pub. Nearly everyone in our group tried some. The cheese flavour was addictive - tasted like Wotsits. Never before or since, but yum.

My DC will take in end-of-year presents of the chocolate/alcohol variety - being more generous than average maybe but the gift will only be around one thirtieth of a percent of a teacher's wage so even if the whole class gave gifts of similar value (very unlikely) it would still represent a "tip" of 1% which is fairly derisory really.

OP your mistake is probably working for a charity. People probably do give thank-you gifts - by donating to the charity!