Secret Santa. I want to give a really mean gift.

[CurlyWurlyCake]

During the year we all got to nominate a charity to raise money for on a fun day at work. My charity was drawn

She openly slagged my charity off as not worthy, turned a few around in the team who on the day declined to join in with the fun and games (she is a team supervisor) and stop a decent amount being raised.

I want to give her a laminated certificate, her gift is my donation of £5 to said charity.

I will donate the £5, she will know it is me. My question is it will probably taint secret Santa this year so should I do it? Would you?

Or for 8 you can send some crap

Martha, thanks, you've just found me my dad's present, he'll love a twinned loo!

op, semen straw sounds perfect. Please make sure to report back.

Fruit :) I hope he is pleased with it

He will be Martha, and even better, his wife will probably won't...

Toilet twinning here

An actual loo is probably above budget for an office secret Santa. But how about the fund raising loo roll?

This is an amazing thread :o I really hope you'll update after the big unwrapping OP :o

Please give her the semen straw... :)

I think it kind of depends what your charity is, OP.

There are a few I wouldn't want to support.

no matter what the charity is you've got to be a particularly sick kind of twisted to go round a workplace slagging it off so badly other people refuse to join in fund raising

Fruit you could frame the certificate, ready to be hung in their bathroom if you're visiting them, you could even offer to help hang it up straightaway!

I'd slag off an anti-abortion charity. I'd slag off the shoebox one.

It really does matter which charity.

You've GOT to get the semen straw! Just nasty enough for you to feel you've made your point, but not nasty enough to ruin secret santa.

And I'd also like to know about your charity x

Aw ruhrpott got there first
I came on especially to suggest a semen straw :o

I'd state my objections to a charity I disagreed with, but it's a bit nasty to put other people off just because I don't agree. I would state my reasons if asked and expect other people to make up their own minds whether to support or not based on their own research and opinions/beliefs!

I do love the semen straw idea, there's absolutely no way to be sneery about something like that without making yourself look like a total dick :o

I think a charity would have to be quite controversial for a number of OP' s colleagues to not want to give, to the extent that it made a significant impact on the total. Her colleague may have been justified. If OP messed up the charity event by choosing a controversial charity, it would be a bit mean tiebreak secret Santa as well, wouldn't it?

Very good idea. I send Oxfam gifts to those I'm duty bound to send gifts to every year, but, for example, are never acknowledged or the gesture reciprocated. I'd rather the money go to somebody deserving.

Unkind woman. I wouldn't send her a cow or pig though, as that's too obvious and might lose you sympathy. Subtle is the way to go (though the manure for £10 is tempting .

Looking at the Oxfam gifts I'd go for a chicken or something fairly innocuous like health for kids, mosquito nets, and/or a chicken. She will still get the message but you won't get into any trouble.

I'm still undecided

I don't think the charity can be controversial. It is whizz-kidz. They raise money to buy motorized wheelchairs for children and young adults. I wanted to raise enough to sponsor a confidence and ability Class.

I have a just giving page, if anyone would like to help me raise funds I can send a link via PM.

Don't get her something nice. Who gives a fuck if it's Christmas, it's just another day? Semen straw is fine.

Whizz-kidz is a brilliant charity - I loathe the silly woman even more now

Pls send me your justgiving link, curlywurly

Who the actual fuck can bitch about a charity helping children in wheelchairs?! Deserves what she gets. Definitely.

WtF? I thought it was going to be a dubious support Syria charity or something! What was her explanation for not supporting them?

My fave one a colleague gave to another colleague who was just terrible was a giant wooden spoon! Because she was such a stirrer!

Why would someone not want to support such a great charity?

Give her a self help book on how to become a better person.

I love toilet twinning. They are awesome. I want to ask for a twinned loo for Christmas, but I don't think my family would get it.

I work in fundraising and it is amazing how people have opinions on things. I used to work for a Hospice and a number of people I came across in a public setting said they wouldn't donate because the NHS should pay for hospice care.
OP if I were you I would give her something from the 99p shop - they sell tons of crap which could plausibly cost a fiver - and donate the difference.