To ask how much you give in a work collection?

[GreenBeanGuzzler]

For someone leaving?

Depends. On who for and what occasion
I have given £20, £10, £5 or even £3 to some.

£0 if I don't like them, £2 if I am neutral, £5 if I like them.

As in someone I worked with for 10 years will get more than someone who only stayed 8 months.

Depends on how much I like them tbh

Depends. 0 if barely know who they are. £5 if feel I should but we're not close, £10 if work closely/like them/manage them.

Usually a fiver. I gave £3 recently to for a guy I didn't know so well and it felt a bit mean. All our collections are via PayPal or similar nowadays so the organiser knows how much you've put it.

£2

Like others say, it depends. How long have I worked with them, how much do I like them or worked closely with them, and how many people are contributing. Say it's a team of 4 people, then it's likely everyone would put in £10. But, if it's my department of 30 and I don't know them very well then probably £2.

I worked in an office of about 20 people. I liked most people so when anyone left I would give about £10 but noticed that the whole collection only came to about £40 each time ( solicitor’s office) including the partners contribution ( if they made one) so I dropped it down to £10. When I left I think I got £35…

Up to about £20 for someone in my team (I'm the team manager) down to fuck all for someone I don't like. I don't sign the card if I've contributed nothing.

We are a a 60ish person office.
Usually bung a tenner in for a colleague if I know them.
One teammate left last year and I didn’t contribute at all because I’d never met them or had any dealings with them at all.
Other than that though, it’s a standard tenner.
the few people who have left have received gift vouchers for £500.

Generally £5 for someone I know and don’t hate. £10 if it’s someone I work closely with.

I am quite selective who I donate to though. Our department is huge and has a large turnover so I’d be broke if I gave to everyone.

For someone I've worked with closely or for a long while, £10 or £15. For someone I don't work with much, £5. They'd really need to have upset me for me not to contribute anything, and luckily that hasn't happened often!

Not a penny.
One of the things I’m in charge of is staff leaving/ maternity/ birthdays and we do voucher ‘with love from all your friends at widgetworld’
No wasted time with cards circulating, no one overlooked, no unfairness and no one out of pocket.

It depends on how much I like them. A colleague who is a friend, that I have worked with for years, I’ve put up to £50 in before. For someone I like but I’m not close to, then £5 to £10, that seems to be most common. If I can’t stand them, fuck all!

At my partners work, £20 seems standard.

In the good old days as a part timer I often missed the collection envelope or if I was in would pop whatever change was lying in my purse. It's a big office so there was always something.
In the post covid era this is all done by email and bank transfer so it's been £5 flat rate unless I can claim no knowledge of the person.

Normally £5, up to £20 for people I line manage. Made the mistake of topping up a meagre collection for a difficult former member of my team. Their final line manager said they criticised every gift they were given. Wouldn't do it again.

Very poor for line managers not to contribute to their own team's collections, although I have seen it happen. Often by people who expect to receive generous gifts from their teams. One senior manager in particular was openly speculating what he would get based on the fact that the CEOs PA had received a good number of expensive gifts "and she was just a secretary". What he failed to take into account was that everyone knew her, she was helpful, kind and popular. He never donated to anything, often feuded with others and micromanaged his team. His gift was a paperback book about his hobby.

For me, It also depends on the occasion.....if it's a random birthday, or a 40th/50th/60th birthday, or if that person is retiring etc.

Depends who it is... at my work collections are now done via PayPal so I usually give £5 if its someone I know well and £2 if not.

Nothing.

Fiver where I am now but I don’t know people massively. Have a tenner once as I was organising and it needed topping up really.

So the company pay?

How much is the voucher for?

£30 and it’s worth it for good will and saving time with cards circulating/ avoiding overlooking people.

After years of donating to various collections I left and got nothing! Their excuse was several of us were leaving at the same time …

I try not to give for people I don't know and £10-£15 for people I work with.