To think that secret santa is shit?

[GetOutOfMYGarden]

Todays secret santa at work had a full house of shiteness.

1. I had the person I've spoken to the least, and who has barely spoken to anyone I asked. I've figured out he drinks a fuckton of tea fortunately. See number 2.
2. The presents are usually shit. Fortunately my secret santa took the easy option and bought me a box of Lindor. They are a minority though
3. Passive aggressive gifts 'Sandra I got you some pens so you can stop stealing mine! teehee!'
4. Home made fucking tea cosy bullshit. Nobody wants the tea cosy you made pal
5. The shite humour involved

Come on, if we must insist on getting a random gift we'll never use can we not at least put our fiver in a pot and buy stuff out of the pot for a raffle or some shite like that? Raffles are 100% better than shitty secret santa

We have a list where everyone writes down what they'd like - socks, candle, bubble bath etc. We'll see if it works..!

We had a raffle this year. And work paid for the presents rather than us. I got a really decent gift out of it, it was brilliant.

Last year in my old place of work we did Yankee swap and it was a million miles better than SS. Less personal and much more fun.

I once did a secret Santa with some of my close university friends. I was buying for somebody I care a lot about, felt I put a lot of thought in (for a 21yo student with a fiver, anyway). The person with my name was probably the person I knew least.
He didn't even bother trying. I opened a strip of three condoms that I was told were from his personal stash. It was especially gutting because everybody else had really gotten into it.

It's the only SS I've done. I like the theory of them, but that experience really soured them for me.

Yankee swap and raffles? Get me in where you work LaurieMarlow

Last year I agreed to take part. Came in over annual leave to bring in my secret Santa gift as well, so that my recipient wasn’t left out.

Somehow, I ended up being ‘forgotten ‘ though when the presents were dished out at the Christmas lunch and never received anything

It didn’t really bother me though as the person who organised it is a bit to me anyway so I figured that she had done deliberately.

Like fuck did I agree to do it again this year though.

“Dirty Secret Santa” is a lot more fun.....

Nope! Not unreasonable! I have got the newest person in my team and I know literally zero about him. It has been tough. I have gone for a relatively safe option - gin and chocolate. Why WHY do we have to do this every year?!

I would never join a works Secret Santa. The present limits are so low, it can only ever be cheap tat and half the time you don’t know the person you get so you can’t do something remotely personal. Every time, a huge amount of money gets spent in offices on utter tat.

In my last office the directors banned it and asked people to donate the money to a good cause.

A few years back where I worked our team did calendars as secret Santa was a great improvement on the year before where I got a bottle wine (good) and a cigar, not so good!

I actually got a really nice gift, a soap from a cosmetics company I love but no-one knew so complete fluke. I got the colleague I work closest with so that was easy. Budget was a sensible £5. Some people got shit ones though think poundland bubbles.

We have the world’s best Secret Santa. It’s very elaborate and opt-in only. You fill in a form, there are several days’ worth of gifts and you reveal your identity at the end. ‘Experiences’, such as delivering someone coffee in the morning, and silly handmade gifts are encouraged. I love it!

I always got shit SS presents, even from people who I knew didn't hate me

Dh puts loads of effort into his and it's things like that that make me luff him

It's resolutely shit.

We're having a blind one with DH's family. Blind and gender neutral.
They're so 'now'.

Should have married the hod carrier really.

I thought I'd avoided it being on mat leave this year, but got a text today saying they didn't want to leave me out (even though I declined the Xmas meal) and I'm buying for x and the budget is y. For Friday.

Ours went really well, actually. Our budget is £5, but we're a small team so everyone knows each other pretty well, which helps.

Work ones are shit. I got chocolate and wine. I don't drink and I'm eating too healthily (2 more stone to go) to eat the cheap and crappy chocolate

I refuse to do this every year. I get the odd comment but I absolutely hate it for all the reasons you’ve mentioned

They're terrible! I got the worst gift 2 years in a row 😡
So hard pretending you're not pissed off - I bought something lovely! I just want some bubble bath for goodness sake

In fact there was a full on stand up row one year as one person accused other of buying something out of date. I just made like Elvis & left the building

I fucking loathe Secret Santa. It’s always instituted at places where people can’t stand each other (ice never had one at a workplace that was not filled with passive aggressive or outright aggressive wankbeasts). The presents are only what you would have chosen if you are ridiculously lucky. I’d rather spend my meagre income on people I know and like thanks.

Miserable fuckers. It's a bit of fun at Christmas. We did one last week. £5 a time. Lots of sweet and thoughtful presents.

One year I was the only woman in an all-female office who did not live with a partner. I had a lovely friend w benefits thing going on with a friend who lived in another city but visited back home for work. But I didn’t spread that information around.

So one year my Secret Santa gift was sexy undies and a bottle of lube “in case you ever get lucky”. Fuck you and the horse you rode in on “ladies”. Secret Santa is used as a baited trap by arseholes.

Funnily i just said tonight-if i get another smelly candle im out next year.

My secret Santa at work this year was bloody ridiculous.
Everyone had to buy a present for £5 but you didn’t know who you were buying for! So all presents just went into a big sack and everyone just randomly pulled one out.
Given that there is a mix of men/women/old/young/drinkers/non drinkers/gluten free/dairy free etc etc, it was a bloody nightmare and a total waste of time and money.
Rant over. And breathe!

Ours was fab. All gifts had to benefit a charity, and loads had really nice explanatory notes. There were tears. In a good way