AIBU to ask what the worst Secret Santa gift is that you ever received?

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Mine was an empty cardboard box wrapped up.

Religious Christmas decorations by someone who knew I wasn’t religious. The charity shop got that.

@Oysterbabe oh but that jewellery is so.......
No fair enough it is really shite

acrylic photo block with a photo of co-worker built into it (couldnt be removed).

@katseyes7

Not mine, but one of the young girls we worked with (she was about 20 at the time) got a pair of red sequin nipple tassels.

We found out later that a man in his late 50s had bought them. lt was beyond creepy and we didn't dare tell her.

Ewww, that sounds so grim.

Puts me in mind of my where my niece works. There are half a dozen 18 to 23 y.o. young women there, and 3 or 4 men in their early 30s. Then there is a man of 57, who constantly tries to be friendly and jovial with these very young women, and tries to flirt with them.

He probably feels he is still 25 in his head, but all they are seeing is a man who is biologically old enough to be their grandfather flirting with them, and acting like he's their mate. They cringe when they see him coming over to them, and will walk an extra 3 or 4 minutes to avoid him at work...

He gets really hurt and offended when he is not invited to any of their nights out. Ummmm, they are 18 to 23 y.o. women and he is a nearly 60 year old man. Maybe that's why. Would a nearly 60 y.o. woman expect to be invited on a lads night out with her 18 to 23 year old male work colleagues? No, they would laugh at her if she wanted to go!

Anyway, back to my niece's 57 y.o. male work colleague. It was one of her colleague's 21st birthday a few months back, and this man bought her a red lingerie set. Fuck knows what his wife would think if she knew. They have been married 33 years and have 2 grown kids. I feel sorry for her to be quite honest. I bet he tells her he can't help it if he gets on well with women, and 'younger people.'

The birthday girl by the way, threw the lingerie set in the bin. The man asked her (about a week later) if he liked it, and she just went very red and said it didn't fit so she gave it to a charity shop. He was really offended and pissed off. So weird!

A g-string in a walnut.
Also a pair of deely boppers with penises on them along with other things I think are usually purchased by people who are thick as shit and planning to go out on a hen night.
I was not planning on getting married.

The team that gave me those items as a Christmas present never were able to get any overtime for months after that, somehow it always went to other teams who didn't give me offensive shit.

I wouldn't have cared if they'd given me nothing or a Mars Bar instead (wouldn't have eaten it but wouldn't have been offended either), but G-strings & penises was not acceptable.

Don't piss off your boss.

MistyCloud OMG. That's just as bad! Worse, in fact!
This man was much the same. Very friendly with the young ones (girls, mainly) and obviously didn't think it was inappropriate.
l felt very protective towards her, she was a lovely girl. l didn't want to tell her in case it scared her, and l knew she was leaving not long after to start a new job.
l was in my 50s at the time, and we had younger men (similar age to her, and a bit older) in the office too. l got on very well with them, (l'm still actually friends with one who's young enough to be my son 7 years after l left the job) but obviously the situation was very different. lt seems to be much more common with older men and younger women/girls. l'm not saying it doesn't happen the other way round but it's certainly not as prevalent and doesn't seem quite so predatory.
l cannot believe that man actually asked her about it! At that age l'd have been mortified. With the benefit of age and experience l'd have been very tempted to send it to his wife and say it didn't fit and perhaps she would like it instead.....

A small box of those red lindor truffles you always find on offer by the tills of loads of shops at Xmas - but half had been eaten with the wrappers shoved back in the box.

My DH used to participate in SS and really put thought into an appropriate gift. He got utter shite back. This went on for years. He has now conceded defeat and no longer participates.

An eyeshadow pallet that only an eight year old would love.

A cheap slanket and some other crap
It was one gift but nothing remotely usable

A pack of two tea towels from Ikea.

Two out of date deodorants. One had pubic hairs stuck to it. Yuck! But how I laughed!

@katseyes7

I know right. My niece said she and a couple of the other young women were tempted to send it to his wife!!! She can't have known, surely?! WTF was he thinking? As I said, in his head he must think he is 25!

I would have hit the roof (if I had been the wife and I found out,) because it's odd and inappropriate for a man bordering 60 to be fawning over young women 35 to 40 years younger!!! And buying (intimate/sexy) gifts only a husband/partner should be buying.

A friend of mine has a husband (around 50,) and he has always been really friendly and pally with women at work, and would spend hours, when he and my friend were on holiday together, shopping for gifts for several women at work (for a present from his holiday!)

He seemed very proud of the fact he was 'good mates' at work, with a girl of 17. 'we get on so well and have great banter,' he bragged, 'and she laughs at my dirty jokes!' REALLY? I cannot imagine ANY 17 y.o. girl LOLing at dirty jokes told to her by a 50 y.o. man!

He was a shoulder to cry on for one particular woman (aged around 40,) when she broke up with her partner of 7 years. He spent hour after hour consoling her.

He told his wife about it all and wasn't keeping anything secret, but she was still pissed off and told him to stop or this woman would get the wrong idea. Again, he said 'I can't help it if I get on better with women!' Personally, it's more like he pushes his conversation and 'friendship' on women!!!

The woman then bought him an expensive gift for his 50th birthday last year as a 'thank you.' (Like worth £175!) My friend was so upset, and he couldn't see why! The gift was twice as costly as the gift my friend had bought him, and when she was upset, he smirked and said 'awwww I love it when yer jealous. It shows you care.'

Bastard.

WTF is wrong with some men? No emotional intelligence. At ALL. He should have given that gift straight back to the woman and said he can't accept it, and my friend told him to do that. He said 'not likely, I love it!' FFS. The woman left the workplace a few months later, and he still has that gift. My friend says she is so tempted to throw it away.

Annoyingly she is still with him! Why the fuck she puts up with him I don't know.

Years ago my boss was given a rubber snake in a box. She had a phobia about snakes and had only started the job four weeks before. The following year she was given a tin of cat food.

Choice gems I have received, fruit flavoured condoms, a little book about farting, similar book about bogies. I did like the pen I was given with a man on it, turn it upside down and his pants fell off. There were also some rather nice purple satin knickers another year, wore them for years.

Best one I have seen. A two for one voucher for Thorpe Park. The ones you can pick up for free in libraries.

Umm @Snugglepumpkin perhaps that was the intention? And surely it was just one person in the team and yet you penalised all of them?

Can you see why you might not be the type of person people go to a lot of effort over?

I say this as a boss you really don't want to piss off but I do save my ire for slightly more major things.

The one time I did it, a mini bag of Haribos, you know, the tiny ones you give out at Halloween. Never did it again and have never seen it go well unless it's for charity.

A 'Face/Arse' soap (gave it to my sister as a gag-gift for her husband). I was 27 years old at the time. Oh, and I'm female.

@Shannith it was a group present & they all wanted the overtime. (rates were really good in that particular company back then)

All the people in the other twenty plus teams who either didn't bother giving me a gift (fine by me was never expected or wanted) or bought some innocuous random toiletry/stationery/sweets/random non sexual type item which I can't remember, wanted the overtime too but we only needed so many to cover at any one time.

As it was down to me to pick (from list of people requesting it), I picked random people who hadn't specifically peed me off recently & had good attendance or good reason for absence (like e.g. chemo)

Not really the unleashing of great ire & had absolutely no effect on their future careers or opportunities for them within the company.

A taxidermy martin on a tree branch...initially we all thought it was a stuffed rat....office policy the said gifts needed to be on display for the month. I also received a mallard duck watering can.

Usually it's just generic toiletries crap for ours. We took to asking people to write three requests to help cut down on crapness.

I've given, amongst other things, chocolate, Bailey's, and cuddly toys. All been apparently well received.

I'm that anybody could consider sexual stuff appropriate.

Blonde hair dye....

In am a red head and grew up being bullied over my hair colour. Was 17 and utterly distraught that the "guys" found the gift so funny

Last year my family decided to do SS for the adults, all have partners except me who was newly single. Budget was £25. I spent ages painstaking looking for something for me to buy.
I ended up getting a ships own brand face mask, this was the only thing I got for Christmas. Funnily enough I have opted out this year.

@ludog

A 3d picture of a wolf

That's hilarious 😂

A clipboard.

A used self help book 😂🙂